in 1618 Christian IV of Denmark and the newly established Danish East India Company sent an expedition under the leadership of Ove Gjedde to Ceylon, with the intention of securing the Danish Monarchy as a part of the Asiatic trade.

[1] The negotiations on Ceylon proved to be unsuccessful and the expedition tried their luck on the Coromandel Coast.

[2] The Nayak had seen a benefit in bonding with another European power in the hopes of weakening the Portuguese influence in his realm.

[2] The treaty had 15 statements including:[3] Tharangambadi (meaning the village with the singing waves) was too hard for the Danes to pronounce, and the village was therefore renamed Tranquebar (Danish: Trankebar).

[4] Tranquebar would thus be ceded to the Danes, and Gjedde would erect Fort Dansborg in its place.