| Notable Position | Person | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Officer | Oloff Van Cortlandt | 1638 | |
| Trader | Johannes Pieterse van Brugh | ||
| Director | Kiliaen van Rensselaer (merchant) | 1621 | |
| Employee | Wessel Ten Broeck | ||
| Employee | Abraham Pietersen van Deusen | 1636 | |
| Director-General | Petrus Stuyvesant | 1635 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1614/03/27 | Merchants in Holland create "The United New Netherland Company" and obtain from the States-General at the Hague the right to trade with the inhabitants near the Hudson River for a period of three years beginning 1 January 1615. | Established | The Hague | Netherlands | Losing New Netherland | ||
| 1623/00/00 | The Dutch West India Company rents the Vleeshal and Schutterswachthuis. The west and a south wing are built shortly after the conversion into West Indisch Huis. | Office | West India House, Amsterdam | Amsterdam | |||
| 1624/00/00 | The Dutch West India Co sends 18 Protestant Walloons to build Fort Orange. The company appoints "comforter of sick" to read scripture and a sermon on the sabbath. | Director | Fort Orange Archeological Site | Albany | |||
| 1624/05/00 | Thirty families, under the command of Cornelius Jacobsen May, arrive from the Dutch Republic on the ship "New Netherland" and settle on Governors Island. | Sponsor | Governors Island | Settling the American Colonies | |||
| 1626/05/24 | Peter Minuit arrives in the bay of New Amsterdam and at once buys from the local tribal members the island of Manhattan with 60 guilders ($24) worth of trade goods, and vests the title in the Dutch West India Trading Company. | Owner | Manhattan NYC | New York City | |||
| 1636/00/00 | The Dutch West India Company trades Dutch goods, cloths, implements, and liquors for the Indians' furs, fish and venison. | Work | Dutch Island Lighthouse | Jamestown, RI | |||
| 1637/00/00 | Fort Ninigret is built by the Dutch West India Company or by Portuguese explorers prior to 1637. | Architect | Fort Ninigret | Charlestown, RI | |||
| 1638/00/00 | Oloff Van Cortlandt arrives in New Amsterdam in the employ of the Dutch West India Company | Work | |||||
| 1642/00/00 | West India Warehouse is built in Amsterdam. | Owner | West India Warehouse, Amsterdam | Amsterdam | |||
| 1651/05/25 | The Dutch West India Company, under the leadership of Peter Stuyvesant, establishes Fort Casimir. The site is a no-longer existing barrier island at the end of Chestnut Street in New Castle, Delaware. | Owner | New Castle, DE | Delaware | |||
| 1655/09/00 | Dutch West India Company attacks New Sweden's Naamans Creek settlement | Belligerent | Robinson House | Claymont, DE | |||
| 1674/00/00 | West India Company quit their Warehouse in Amsterdam. | Office | West India Warehouse, Amsterdam | Amsterdam | |||
| 1722/04/05 | Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen, of the Dutch West India Company, lands on Easter Island, Easter Sunday, 5 April 1722 | Easter Island | Chile | ||||
| 1821/00/00 | Records in Holland of the West India Trading Company were sold as waste-paper. | End |
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