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6 unusual facts about ''Batavia''


Batavia, Illinois

Jackie DeShannon, 1960s singer-songwriter; attended Batavia High School

Byron Sunderland

In 1843, Sunderland became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Batavia, New York.

History of Williamston, Michigan

In 1839, the Putnams sold their land to Oswald B., James M., and Horace B. Williams, three brothers who came from Batavia, New York.

Mike Dash

Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny.

Peter Donders

In 1855 he took up his residence in Batavia, where for nearly 32 years he ministered to 600 lepers.

Young Eagles

In May 2009, EAA joined with Sporty's Pilot Shop of Batavia, Ohio, to provide the Next Step to the Young Eagles Flight experience.


1630s in South Africa

1631 - The Khoikhoi leader Autsumao, is taken to Batavia and is later returned to the Cape to serve as an interpreter.

Abraham Patras

In 1691, he sought a change of career and got a temporary post as an agent in Batavia.

In 1722, he was appointed deputee-overseer of goods coming in and out of the castle at Batavia.

Adriaan Valckenier

Mainly remembered for his involvement in the 1740 Batavia massacre, Valckenier later died in a prison in Batavia (present-day Jakarta).

After Man: A Zoology of the Future

Other volcanic islands have been added, such as the Pacaus Archipelago and Batavia.

Alexander Beresford Hope

Disraeli retorted by alluding to Beresford Hope's "Batavian graces" (in reference to his family's Dutch origins).

Alexander Gordon Stephen

He was transferred to Batavia, Singapore and the Bombay office, and stationed in Batavia from 1896 to 1902 until he was appointed agent at Penang.

Alice Ripley

Ripley recently wrapped shooting on the feature film, Muckland, shot on location in the towns of Elba and Batavia in upstate New York.

Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest

Having learned about the British Macartney Embassy to the Qing court in 1793, he requested that the commissioners-general in Batavia send a VOC embassy to the court of the Qianlong Emperor for the celebration of his sixtieth year on the throne.

Batavia Cemetery

Two years later, in 1882, an organization called the National Christian Association Opposed to Secret Societies called attention to William Morgan, a Batavia resident who, after a failed bid to join the local Masonic Lodge, began speaking and writing against the order and its alleged hidden influence on society and politics.

Batavia Township, Boone County, Arkansas

Batavia, Arkansas was settled in 1881 by Roswell Emerson Underwood, who spent four years as a Genesee County, New York, surveyor for the Holland Land Company.

Cape Maria van Diemen

The cape was named by Abel Tasman after the wife of his patron, Anthony van Diemen, Governor General of Batavia (now Jakarta) in January 1643, on the same voyage of discovery during which he named Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).

Christopher Hill

Christopher T. Hill (born 1951), theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois

Claës Fredrik Hornstedt

At the invitation of Thunberg he set off in 1783 for Batavia, capital of the Dutch colonial empire, from Göteborg, boarding the “Sophia Magdalena”, a ship belonging to the Swedish East India Company.

Darah Muda

Nurdin, a young Minangkabau doctor, has just finished ten years of medical school in Batavia (now Jakarta).

F.D.J. Pangemanann

Around 1894 Pangemanann became a reporter for the Malay-language daily Bintang Betawi, based in the colonial capital of Batavia (now Jakarta).

Gagak Item

Gagak Item was released in late 1939 and was screened in Batavia (now Jakarta), the capital of the Indies; Medan, North Sumatra; and Surabaya, eastern Java.

Galathea expeditions

The Galathea proceeded to Southeast Asia, calling at Penang, Singapore, Batavia, and Manila before heading for the Chinese coast and visiting Hong Kong, Macau, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai.

Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff

En route to Batavia, Van Imhoff visited the Dutch colony in Cape Town, in the Cape Colony, where he discovered that Dutch settlers were penetrating increasingly further into the interior, and were losing contact with the VOC.

Henri Maclaine Pont

Born in Batavia in 1884, Henri Maclaine Pont studied civil engineering in Delft.

History of the Indonesian rupiah

The Dutch East India Company was granted a trade monopoly over the Indies in 1600 and under the leadership of Jan Pieterszoon Coen gained effective government over the territory around Batavia on Java, their capital, with an area of influence that increased over time, and which was eventually expanded by Dutch conquest into the 20th century to include nearly all of what is now Indonesia.

John Augustine Collins

Following the outbreak of war with Japan, Collins was appointed Commodore Commanding China Force, the RN-RAN cruiser and destroyer force based in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, under the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command.

Joseph Arnold

After 1815 he unsuccessfully tried to work as surgeon in Sydney, and upon his return trip to England he was stranded in Batavia.

Joseph Kam

Therefore, Supper remained in Batavia to serve the congregation there, Bruckner was stationed in Semarang, and Kam himself stationed on Ambon.

Lakeland, Queensland

1873 in association with Christie Palmerston they prospected on the newly discovered (1873) Palmer goldfield, shortly thereafter with Robert Sefton finding traces of gold on the Batavia River (now known as Wenlock River).

Laurens Janszoon Coster

Hadrianus Junius, otherwise known as Adriaen de Jonghe, wrote this story around 1567 in his book Batavia, published only in 1588, and was quoted by Cornelis de Bie.

Lintah Darat

When she is disappointed that the boy of her dreams, Safi'i, is more interested in her sister, Asnah decides to go to Batavia (now Jakarta) to become a singer.

Loyalty Islands

The first Western contact on record is attributed to the British Captain William Raven from the London trading ship Britannia, who in 1793 was on his way from Norfolk Island to Batavia.

Mangkunegara II

In the two periods of the Governor-General (Daendels and Raffles), Yogyakarta suppressed with military force to compel Hamengkubuwono II down tahta.Di December 1810 Daendels with troops 4200 soldiers stormed Yogyakarta.Daendels reduce Hamengkubuwono II and then raised the son of the Crown of Yogyakarta as Hamengkubuwono III and returned to Batavia with the Prince Natakusuma as tawanan.Pada month replacement in July 1812 with 2,000 soldiers stormed the Raffles Yogyakarta.

Max Cramer

In 2009, as an initiative arising from the Australia on the Map: 1606 - 2006 commemorations, marking the 400th anniversary of Australia's first recorded contact with the outside world, Cramer and the Batavia Coast Maritime Heritage Association erected an impressive statue in Geraldton of Wiebbe Hayes, heroic leader of opposition to the Batavia mutineers.

Mike Dash

Each focuses on a single event or series of events, among them the wreck of the East Indiaman Batavia, the Dutch tulip mania of 1634-1637, and the early years of the American Mafia.

New York State Route 237

NY 237 begins at an intersection with NY 5 east of Batavia in the Genesee County town of Stafford.

Petrus Vuyst

Vuyst was born in Batavia as the son of Hendrik Vuyst of Alkmaar (1656-1705) and Maria de Nijs.

Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence

1942: Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines Herald for his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia.

Railway Express Agency

William G. Fargo, a New York Central freight clerk at Auburn, N.Y., and Henry Wells, a leather worker at Batavia, N.Y., organized Wells Fargo & Co.

Robert Junius

Following this campaign, Junius continually urged the authorities in Batavia to send more clergymen to Formosa to assist in the instruction and conversion of the now amenable natives, something in which he was supported by the governor of the time, Hans Putmans.

Rod Crewther

After his PhD, he held postdoctoral appointments at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois.

Rojak

This dish was originated from Chinese community in Batavia (now Jakarta) and now has become the Betawi dish closely related with "Asinan Betawi".

Samuel D. Lockwood

Lockwood practiced law in Batavia for a year before relocating his practice to Sempronius, New York for about a year and a half.

Sunda Kelapa

The old port served as the main port of Batavia until the late 19th century, when the Netherlands East Indies government decided to build a new Tanjung Priok port to accommodate the increasing traffic as a result of the opening of the Suez Canal.

WPXJ

WPXJ-TV, a television station (channel 51) licensed to Batavia, New York, United States


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