Institution

Danish Asiatic Company

1732–1840s · 18th century

The Danish Asiatic Company was a trading company chartered in Copenhagen in 1732 with a monopoly of Danish trade with Asia. Its ships sailed to Canton for tea, silk and porcelain and to the Danish colony of Tranquebar in India, and it was among the most profitable enterprises of Denmark-Norway in the 18th century. Its monopoly ended in the 1770s and the company was dissolved in the 1840s.

Danish Asiatic Company
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