1621    Jakarta, Java is renamed Batavia.

1991    An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.

1998    Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.

2003    A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.

2004    2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.