A Different Pacific - A Timeline

Part 1 - Introduction
On 20 February, 1606, Willem Janszoon discovered Terra Australis. He met with some aborigines and traded some European fruit in exchange for some kangaroo meat. This friendly encounter would eventually lead Cape York to be recommended to the Dutch East Indian Company as a base that could be populated with native Dutch, as the area is less populated with natives than the near Dutch East Indies.
 
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Part 2 - Dutch Settlement in the Gulf of Janszoon
Part 2 - Dutch Settlement in the Gulf of Janszoon
In 1606 upon his return, Williem Janszoon recommended the point in which he landed, which he named Maurice Bay (after the king) for a settlement. He argued that its sparse amount of natives and its more livable climate than the Dutch East Indies was a good place for a base for Dutch settlers and as a base and headquarters for the Dutch East India Company. While the contemporary Governor-General of the VOC was indifferent to the idea, his successor Jan Pieterszoon Coen thought differently and established the colony in 1620 with a boat of 200 Dutch settlers. One year later when Frederick Bay was more populated, with about 500 settlers moving there since then, with about 700 people there in total, the Dutch East India Company established a base there and moved the head offices to there.
In 1623 Dirk Hartog travelled past North-Western Australia, past the Gulf of Janszoon and around the island of New Guinea. Some new discoveries made Cape Charlotte and Southern New Guinea even more strategically important than ever, which meant more settlements up north. Jan Pieterszoon Coen sent 200 more settlers each to Kessen and Keizer in 1624, securing northern Cape York as Dutch territory.
While there was little growth in the population in the 1620s (2000 people by 1629), it would soon see a massive influx of settlers. In 1631 Peter-jan Heyes of the Dutch East India Company, discovered he could pay the aborigines very little, (e.g. fruit and berries) for them to gather sandalwood for them. The sandalwood business became so massive that "New Holland" (known in the rest of the non-Dutch world as Australis) became the prime immigration destination for Dutch, equivalent to the New World for the British. 5,000 settlers quickly travelled to New Holland in the next 2 years, including the new settlement of Heyes. While some settlers moved to Dutch New Guinea, most travelled to Maurice Bay, Heyes and Keizer. Keizer became one of the biggest settlements in New Holland mainly because the Torres Strait became one of the best and fastest ways to get from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific. By 1639 New Holland would have a population of 15,000, more than England's American colonies at the same time. This new successful colony in Australis led the other European powers to gain interest in this new continent, especially Portugal and Spain.
 
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Part 3 - British Formosa, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and California
Part 3 - English Formosa, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and California
As the Netherlands was busy colonising New Holland, England was focused on its colonies in the New World (however Australis is also known as part of "The New World"). As it was known that the other side of North America led to the Pacific Ocean, Great Britain was desperately trying to gain territory through North America to have access to the sea. So in 1635 Britain sent out 50 expeditioners from Norfolk to travel to the west coast of the continent. With them they sent some settlers to make a few towns along the way to claim for England. Many of these towns were along the Mississippi River, on which they encountered some native tribes. 3 years later, with the help of some natives, they reached Gordon Bay, named after Francis Gordon, the main expeditioner. After, the group travelled south to New Spain and headed back home. When they told the news to the Governor of Virginia, who told the government in England, they immediately sent ships to start a colony at the coordinates where they found a good place to build a city. The settlement was called Gordon City and was to serve as a port on the way to travel from Asia to the New World. To secure this route through North America, England started up multiple settlements along the Mississippi River in the late 1630s and early 1640s, effectively making sure the French do not gain control of this vast river. As England was practically bursting with population, it even required some people to move to the new colonies to avoid overpopulation and secure its new territories. Now, England effectively controlled all land in North America west of the Mississippi which is not Florida or New France. In 1647 England just claimed much of the Great Plains area for itself, started building a road from New York to Gordon City and creating a new town called Denver across the way.
To get from England to California, England needed some English stops. One island was uncolonized and was in a great position to be a stopover for English ships; Formosa. England started colonising Formosa in 1646 and claimed the entire island in doing so. But England still needed to get from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific. The best way as of the moment was going through the New Hollandian Strait, but England looked to a different place, Malaysia. As England was one of the largest naval powers in the world, taking over Jobor was easy, the country surrendered in 5 days. Britain also claimed much of the Malaysian Peninsula as well. And last of all, Britain annexed Kandy in Sri Lanka. This made the so-called "Californian Road", going from England, around Cape Horn, past Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Formosa, going through English America and arriving back in England. All this was finished in 1658, when Kandy was annexed, leaving England as one of the most powerful nations of Earth. However, many nations were wary of England's recent aggressiveness and became more defensive against the nation.
 
Part 4 - Iberian Australis
Part 4 - Iberian Australis
In 1641 Spain was earning a lot of money from growing cotton in the Caribbean. The king Philip IV thought that another tropical place to grow cotton could make Spain an even greater power, especially during the Thirty Years War. So the king sent out Andres Correa to travel around Australis to find out if it was suitable for growing cotton, which certain parts were. Philip IV, fearing the Dutch (their enemies) would take the land first, quickly sent out 5,000 colonists to settle in Philipsville, Los Correa and San Francisco. Philipsville is more south than many of the cotton-growing areas, but is used as a place for Spanish colonists to settle, unlike the northern towns meant for growing cotton., so there was no need in colonising down south. However the colonists needed workers, slaves. And the closest place with the population for that was South-East Asia, so a year later, Spain invaded the country of Brunei, on Borneo, to use for gathering slaves. By 1650 there would be 12,000 Spanish settlers and 40,000 Asian slaves working on cotton fields.
Seeing Spain be successful in using slaves to grow things in Australia, Portugal decided to colonize North-West Australia to use slaves to gather sandalwood. In 1645, Portugal sent 2,000 colonists to colonise Machado and Teixchera. They started to import slaves from Timor and the newly colonized Lesser Sunda Islands and sold sandalwood around the world, increasing the population to 4,000 settlers and 17,000 slaves by 1650.

Australis Population Stats as of 1650 (inc. slaves)
Portuguese Australis: 21,000
Spanish Australis: 52,000
New Holland: 30,000
Total: 103,000
 
Part 4 - Iberian Australis
In 1641 Spain was earning a lot of money from growing cotton in the Caribbean. The king Philip IV thought that another tropical place to grow cotton could make Spain an even greater power, especially during the Thirty Years War. So the king sent out Andres Correa to travel around Australis to find out if it was suitable for growing cotton, which certain parts were. Philip IV, fearing the Dutch (their enemies) would take the land first, quickly sent out 5,000 colonists to settle in Philipsville, Los Correa and San Francisco. Philipsville is more south than many of the cotton-growing areas, but is used as a place for Spanish colonists to settle, unlike the northern towns meant for growing cotton., so there was no need in colonising down south. However the colonists needed workers, slaves. And the closest place with the population for that was South-East Asia, so a year later, Spain invaded the country of Brunei, on Borneo, to use for gathering slaves. By 1650 there would be 12,000 Spanish settlers and 40,000 Asian slaves working on cotton fields.
Seeing Spain be successful in using slaves to grow things in Australia, Portugal decided to colonize North-West Australia to use slaves to gather sandalwood. In 1645, Portugal sent 2,000 colonists to colonise Machado and Teixchera. They started to import slaves from Timor and the newly colonized Lesser Sunda Islands and sold sandalwood around the world, increasing the population to 4,000 settlers and 17,000 slaves by 1650.

Australis Population Stats as of 1650 (inc. slaves)
Portuguese Australis: 21,000
Spanish Australis: 52,000
New Holland: 30,000
Total: 103,000
Couldn't Spain have just used indentured servants from the Philippines?
 
Also, the cotton boom didn't happen until after the cotton gin was invented in 1793, so how did cotton become the main ca$h crop in Spanish Australia?
 
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