Home›Chartered Trading Companies and Leagues›All Chartered Trading Companies and LeaguesBrowse ByAll Chartered Trading Companies and LeaguesReference and ClassificationVerifiedMerchant enterprises and trading federations chartered or recognized by a state to hold trade, territorial or quasi-governmental privileges over a defined region or route, the characteristic commercial institution of the early modern age of exploration and colonization. Belongs here: national East India companies (the English East India Company, the Dutch East India Company, the French East India Company), the Dutch West India Company, Hudson's Bay Company, the Muscovy Company and the Levant Company, and the medieval Hanseatic League as a federation of merchant towns holding equivalent trading privileges. Does not belong here: a bank or merchant-banking house that financed trade without itself holding a trading charter, filed under Banking and Financial Houses, and a present-day industrial or commercial corporation, filed under Industrial and Commercial Corporations.FactsAll Chartered Trading Companies and LeaguesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonStart YearWell-attested1407 CE 1All Chartered Trading Companies and LeaguesFilter Results13 entriesOrganization TypeAllChartered joint-stock trading company (5)Chartered trading company (3)Chartered trading company under royal monopoly (1)Danish-Norwegian chartered trading company (1)Mercantile confederation of merchant guilds and market towns (1)Active PeriodAll1356 to 1862 (1)1407 to 1806 (1)1555 to 1917 (1)1592 to 1825 (1)1600 to 1874 (1)1602 to 1799 (1)1616 to 1650 (1)1621 to 1791 (1)1660 to 1752 (1)1664 to 1794 (1)1670 to 2025 (1)1711 to 1853 (1)1731 to 1813 (1)HeadquartersAllAmsterdam, Dutch Republic (2)Gothenburg, Sweden (1)London, England (6)Lorient, France (1)Lubeck, Holy Roman Empire (present-day Germany) (1)EraAllThe Early Modern Period (11)The Post-Classical and Medieval Period (2)Group TreeAllChartered Trading Companies Founded Before 1600 (3)Chartered Trading Companies Founded from 1600 to 1799 (8)State or Polity AffiliationAllDenmark (2)Dutch colonial empire (1)India (2)Indonesia (1)Japan (1)Kingdom of Norway (872-1397) (1)South Africa (1)Spanish Empire (1)Sweden (1)The British Empire (2)The Dominion of Canada (1)The Dutch Republic (3)The Holy Roman Empire (1)The Kingdom of England (1)The Kingdom of France (1)The Mughal Empire (1)The Ottoman Empire (1)Tsardom of Russia (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 13Company of Merchant AdventurersChartered Trading Companies and LeaguesDanish East India CompanyChartered Trading Companies and LeaguesDutch East India CompanyChartered Trading Companies and LeaguesDutch West India CompanyChartered Trading Companies and LeaguesEast India CompanyChartered Trading Companies and LeaguesFrench East India CompanyChartered Trading Companies and LeaguesHanseatic LeagueChartered Trading Companies and LeaguesHudson's Bay CompanyChartered Trading Companies and LeaguesLevant CompanyChartered Trading Companies and LeaguesMuscovy CompanyChartered Trading Companies and LeaguesRoyal African CompanyChartered Trading Companies and LeaguesSouth Sea CompanyChartered Trading Companies and LeaguesSwedish East India CompanyChartered Trading Companies and LeaguesSources1. Wikipedia: Chartered companytier 2WikipediaChartered company, list of English chartered companies, table rowQuote, Chartered company, list of English chartered companies, table row1407 Company of Merchant Adventurers of LondonView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.