page_title: Timeline of Jakarta
section_title: Prior to 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Jakarta / Prior to 19th century
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Gezicht op de Tijgersgracht te Batavia uit de Atlas van der Hagen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag Deel 4. De Tijgersgracht gold in het midden van de 17de eeuw als de fraaiste van de vijftien binnengrachten van Batavia. Langs de gracht stonden de huizen en gebouwen van de aanzienlijke families van de stad. Vergelijk met de tekening van Johannes Rach uit de National Library of Indonesia, inv.nr. BW 11 en de kopergravure in Koninklijke Bibliotheek, inv. nr. 388A9_dl_002_na_p_198. English: View of the Tijgersgracht on Batavia taken from the Atlas van der Hagen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, part 4. In the mid 17th century, the Tijgersgracht was deemed the most attractive of the fifteen city centre canals in Batavia. The canal was lined with the houses and buildings of the city's most prominent families. Compare with the sketch by Johannes Rach in the National Library of Indonesia, inv.nr. BW 11 and the copper print in Koninklijke Bibliotheek, inv. nr. 388A9_dl_002_na_p_198.
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Jakarta, Indonesia.
context_section_description: 397 CE – The port town known as Sunda Kalapa.
  Mid 5th century – The region around the port was under Hindu Tarumanagara kingdom's rule, according to Tugu inscription discovered in North Jakarta.
  13th to 16th century – The port of Sunda Kalapa was the main port of Hindu Sunda Kingdom, served the capital, Pakuan Pajajaran (now Bogor), located about 60 km inland south
  1513 – Portuguese ships arrived.
  1522 – Padrão erected in Sunda Kelapa to mark Sunda-Portuquese treaty.
  1527
  Fatahillah, on behalf of the Sultanate of Demak, conquers the Portuguese in Sunda Kalapa.
  Sunda Kalapa renamed Jayakarta.
  1610 – Dutch trading post established.
  1619
  Jan Pieterszoon Coen of the Dutch East India Company seizes the port of Jayakarta from the Sultanate of Banten.
  City renamed Batavia.
  1628–1629 – Sultan Agung of Mataram launched Siege of Batavia.
  1695 – Gereja Sion built.
  1699 – An earthquake in Batavia causes the collapse of 49 buildings and leaves 28 dead.
  1710 – Stadhuis (town hall) built.
  1740 – Massacre of ethnic Chinese by Dutch East Indies troops.
  1744 – Amsterdam Gate built.
  1778 – Royal Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences founded.
  1797 – Kebon Jahe Kober cemetery established.
caption: The Tijgersgracht canal lined with the houses of the city's most prominent families, c. 1682
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