Achin, requesting permission to build a factory,
which is 'peremptorily refused.
August 24.—Don Gabriel Curuzalegui, governor
of the Philippines.
Jan Canphuis, governor-general of the Dutch
Indies.
C. 1685. J. 1608. H. 1094.
June 25.—The English establish their settlement
at Bencoolen in Sumatra.
Panambahan Kajoran, father-in-law to Truna
Jaya, raises a rebellion, which is not suppressed
without difficulty.
C. 1686. J. 1609. H. 1095.
The Seur Tak is sent by the Dutch as ambassador
to the court of Mataram, to demand the
head of Surapati, when he and his suite are massacred
by the latter and his followers, with the connivance
of the Susunan.
C. 168?. J. 1610. H. 1096.
Surapati retreats to the eastern end of the island
of Java, and establishes an independent principality
over twenty-one districts.
The Dutch, on the call of the king of Bantam,
attack Succadana in Borneo, said to be a dependency
of Bantam, and conquer it, making the
English who are found there prisoners.
C. 1688. J. 1611. H. 1097.
Anayet Shah, queen of Achin, dies, and is succeeded
by another queen, whose name is not mentioned.
C. 1689. J. 1612. H. 1098.
April 27.—Senor Abella, provisional governor
of the Philippines.
C. 1690. J. 1613. H. 1099.
Don Fausto Cruzat y Gongora, governor of the
Philippines.
C. 1691. J. 1614. H. 1100.
Jonker, an Amboynese chief in the Dutch service
in Java, is driven to rebellion by an affront
offered him by a certain General de St Martin.—
He is killed himself in a skirmish which ensues,
and one hundred and eighty of his followers are executed.
C. 1694. J. I6 1 7 . H. 1103.
An insurrection takes place in the Marianas, or
Ladrones, against the Spaniards.
C. 1696. J. 1660. H. 1106.
The people of Blambangan in Java invade the
more westerly districts, particularly Kadiri, laying
the country waste, and murdering the inhabitants.
The tragical affair of Sukro, son of the first
minister of the Susunan, and the repudiated wife
of the heir-apparent, takes place at Cartasura.
C. 1697. J. 1621. H. 1 10 7 .
Raja Palaka, king of Boni in Celebes, after rendering
himself nearly independent of the Dutch,
and dictating to the smaller and tributary states of
the island, dies, and is succeeded by his nephew,