What the records say
- When
- 1623
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 21
- Coordinates
- 3.61° S, 128.17° E
- Description
- 1623 massacre in Indonesia
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Amboyna massacre
1623 killings in Indonesia
The Amboyna massacre was the 1623 torture and execution on Ambon Island of twenty-one men, including ten in the service of the English East India Company, as well as Japanese and Portuguese traders and a Portuguese man, by agents of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), on accusations of treason.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Amboyna massacre: Ten English merchants in the service of the British East India Company, together with nine Japanese and one Portuguese, are executed by…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “荷蘭殖民者摧毀英國人在安汶島的定居點，稱為安汶大屠殺。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “アンボイナ事件”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page