Danish Asiatic Company ( Danish : Asiatisk Kompagni) was a Danish trading company established in 1730 to revive Danish-Norwegian trade on the Danish East Indies and China following the closure of the Danish East India Company . It was granted a 40-year monopoly on Danish trade on Asia in 1732 and taken over by the Danish government in 1772. It was headquartered at Asiatisk Plads in Copenhagen . Its former premises are now used by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
10-752: The Danish East India Company was dissolved in 1729. Some of Copenhagen's leading merchants responded to the dissolution of the Danish East India Company by creating two trading societies, one for the Indian trade and another one for the new and promising China trade. On 20 April 1730, the two societies were merged to form the Danish Asiatic Company. The reformed interim company opened trade with Qing China at Canton . The first expedition went badly, with Den gyldne Løve lost with its cargo of silver off Ballyheigue , Ireland , on
20-638: A treaty was concluded with the Kingdom of Kandy and the foundation laid of a settlement at Trincomalee on the island's east coast. They occupied the colossal Koneswaram temple in May 1620 to begin fortification of the peninsula before being expelled by the Portuguese . After landing on the Indian mainland, a treaty was concluded with the ruler of the Tanjore Kingdom , Raghunatha Nayak , who gave
30-872: The Danish Gold Coast in 1850, both to the British. Members of the board of directors included: Details of some of these armed trading ships, often built by the Royal Danish dockyards as " handelskib, chinafarer ", can be found at the Royal Danish Naval Museum website Two have a history record at Skibregister. Danish East India Company The Danish East India Company ( Danish : Ostindisk Kompagni ) refers to two separate Danish-Norwegian chartered companies . The first company operated between 1616 and 1650. The second company existed between 1670 and 1729, however, in 1730 it
40-737: The Maratha Empire . During their heyday, the Danish East India Company and Swedish East India Company imported more tea than the British East India Company , smuggling 90% of it into England , where it could be sold at a huge profit. Between 1624-36, Danish trade extended to Surat , Bengal , Java , and Borneo , with factories in Masulipatam , Surat, Balasore and at Java, but subsequent European wars in which Denmark participated ruined
50-620: The Company, and trade in India ceased entirely between 1643–69, during which time all previous acquisitions were lost except Tranquebar, which held out until aid from Denmark arrived in 1669. In 1670, a second Danish East India Company was established, before it too was dissolved in 1729. Governor of Tranquebar Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
60-519: The Danes possession of the town of Tranquebar , and permission to trade in the kingdom by treaty of 19 November 1620. In Tranquebar they established Dansborg and installed Captain Roland Crappé as the first governor ( opperhoved ) of Danish India . The treaty was renewed on 30 July 1621, and afterwards renewed and confirmed on the 10 May 1676, by Shivaji the founder of
70-561: The entire Dano-Norwegian navy was captured), Denmark (one of few Western European countries not occupied by Napoleon ), ceded the island of Heligoland (part of the Duchy of Holstein-Gottorp ) to Britain . In the east, when news of Anglo-Danish hostilities reached India, the British immediately seized seven Danish merchant ships on 28 January 1808 that were in the Hoogli. Denmark finally sold its remaining settlements in mainland India in 1845 and
80-459: The outbound journey. Local landowners held the silver at their estate and pursued a salvage claim, but a gang of locals overpowered the Danish guard and made off with the hoard, causing a diplomatic row between Denmark-Norway and Britain . The Cron Printz Christian returned from the company's first successful expedition to Canton in 1732. With the royal licence conferred in 1732, the new company
90-589: Was granted a 40-year monopoly on all Danish trade east of the Cape of Good Hope . Before 1750, it sent 27 ships; 22 survived the journey to return to Copenhagen. In 1772, the company lost its monopoly and in 1779, Danish India became a crown colony . During the Napoleonic Wars , in 1801 and again in 1807 , the British Royal Navy attacked Copenhagen. As a consequence of the last attack (in which
100-468: Was re-founded as the Asiatic Company ( Danish : Asiatisk Kompagni ). The first Danish East India Company was chartered in 1616 under King Christian IV and focused on trade with India . The first expedition , under Admiral Gjedde , took two years to reach Ceylon, losing more than half their crew. The island had been claimed by Portugal by the time they arrived but on 10 May 1620,
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