Australasia 1811: Interregnum in the Dutch East Indies
18 February 1811
18 Feb 1811
The Australasian Colonies
1788–1859 The Australasian Colonies
1859–1901 Colonial Consolidation
1901–1941 Southern Dominions
1941–1945 The War in the Pacific
1945–pres Decolonization of the Pacific
Interregnum in the Dutch East Indies
26 Jan 1788 First Fleet
28 Apr 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty
7 Feb 1794 Australasia and the French Revolution
23 Jul 1801 Napoleonic France in Australasia
17 Oct 1803 Expanding from New South Wales
26 Jan 1808 Rum Rebellion
18 Feb 1811 Interregnum in the Dutch East Indies
7 May 1815 Settling the Australian interior
29 Feb 1820 Australasia after the Napoleonic Wars
3 Dec 1825 Colony of Van Diemen’s Land
18 Jun 1829 Swan River Colony
1 Jun 1832 Musket Wars
28 Dec 1836 Province of South Australia
6 Feb 1840 Treaty of Waitangi
16 Nov 1840 Colony of New Zealand
17 Feb 1846 Colony of North Australia
30 Aug 1849 Settlement of the South Island
1 Jul 1851 Colony of Victoria
3 Dec 1854 Eureka Rebellion
1 Sep 1855 Tongan Intervention in Fiji
6 Jun 1859 Colony of Queensland
France’s occupation of the Netherlands during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars made the Dutch East Indies a proxy French colony. In 1810 the British invaded, seizing control of the Moluccas and many of the outlying islands. Despite French attempts to fortify and reorganize the colony, Java and the remaining islands would fall to the British in August–September 1811.
