Netherlands History

Thursday, May 30, 2013

 Historical Events
1091-06-17 - Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland
1121-03-02 - Dirk VI becomes count of Holland
1163-12-21 - Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods
1196-12-06 - Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolaas Flood"
1219-01-16 - Floods in Northern Netherlands after storm, 1,000s killed
1247-10-03 - Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor
1248-08-25 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.
1248-11-01 - Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor
1262-01-28 - Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north western storm
1301-07-04 - Battle at Breukelen: Holland vs Lichtenberg
1302-07-11 - Battle of the Golden Spurs (Guldensporenslag in Dutch) near Kortrijk, Belgium. Flemish coalition defeat French army
1304-08-10 - -11] Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch & French fleet beat Flemish fleet
1304-09-11 - Willem III becomes earl of Holland
1334-11-23 - St Clemens Flood: Dike breaks at Flemish/Zeeuwse/Dutch coast
1340-06-07 - Rotterdam Netherlands founded
1346-01-15 - Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand
1346-11-22 - Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements
1349-01-05 - Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand
1375-10-10 - Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands
1417-05-31 - Jacoba van Bavarian becomes countess of Holland/Zealand/Henegouwen
1421-11-18 - Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing estimated 10,000 in Netherlands
1424-11-18 - Storm flood ravages Dutch coast
1425-07-19 - Duke John VI van Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good
1441-08-23 - Holland & Hanzesteden sign cease fire treaty
1451-09-21 - Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa orders Jews of Holland to wear a badge
1464-01-09 - 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands
1477-08-19 - Burgundy & acquires Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands & France
1481-12-26 - Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht
1498-07-20 - Emperor Maximilian names Albrecht governor of Netherlands
1507-06-05 - England & Netherlands sign trade agreement
1509-03-18 - Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians of Netherlands
1509-09-27 - Storm ravages Flemish/Dutch/Friese coast, 1000s killed
1517-07-01 - 1st burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands
1519-11-04 - Flood ravages Dutch/Friese coast
1520-10-07 - 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain
1522-01-09 - Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI)
1522-04-29 - Emperor Charles V names Frans van Holly inquisitor-gen of Netherlands
1526-02-08 - Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die
1530-11-05 - St Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast and destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands
1534-03-26 - Lubeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea
1537-07-30 - Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire
1540-03-19 - Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic"
1544-01-30 - Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
1550-04-28 - Powers of Dutch inquisition extends
1551-12-19 - Dutch west coast hit by hurricane
1552-01-12 - Dutch west coast hit by heavy storm, 100s killed
1552-02-15 - Dutch coast hit by heavy storm
1552-06-12 - Land guardians of Netherlands attacks Verdun
1555-08-23 - Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands.
1555-10-25 - Emperor Karel puts son Philip II in charge of Netherlands/Naples/Milan
1556-11-23 - King Philip II confers with Dutch financial experts
1557-08-03 - Dutch States-General meet at Valenciennes
1559-08-09 - Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland/Zealand/Utrecht
1566-08-25 - Iconoclastic fury begins in Dutch province Utrecht
1567-04-11 - Dutch prince William of Orange flees from Antwerp to Breda
1567-10-06 - Duke of Alva becomes land guardian of Netherlands
1568-01-24 - In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw
1568-05-23 - Battle at Heiligerlee: Dutch rebels beat Spanish, 100s killed
1568-05-23 - The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.
1568-07-10 - Battle on Eems: Dutch Water garrison beats Spanish
1568-07-21 - Battle at Jemmingen: Alva's troops beat Dutch rebellion
1570-03-04 - King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students
1570-11-01 - All Saints Flood, tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland; killing more than 1,000 people.
1572-04-01 - Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, during the Eighty Years' War, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
1572-07-18 - Willem van Orange recognized as viceroy of Holland/Friesland/Utrecht
1572-12-17 - Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands
1573-07-16 - Alva demands submission of Zealand/Holland
1573-10-11 - Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy
1573-11-29 - Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands
1574-02-18 - Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels
1576-05-14 - Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten
1576-10-19 - Dutch provinces begin consultation about Spanish existence
1576-11-08 - Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent - 17 Dutch provinces sign anti-Spanish 
1578-03-10 - Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir £20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion
1578-08-13 - Duke French van Anjou recognized as protector of Netherlands
1579-01-23 - Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic
1579-01-25 - Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic
1579-05-07 - Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands
1580-09-19 - Treaty of Plessis-lez-Tours (Anjou/Dutch States-General)
1581-07-24 - States of Holland/Zealand recognized by Willem van Orange
1582-12-15 - Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar
1583-01-01 - 1st day of the Gregorian calendar in Holland & Flanders
1583-01-12 - Holland begins use of Gregorian calendar (yesterday was 1/1/1583)
1583-03-18 - Dutch States General & Anjou sign treaty
1584-07-10 - William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
1585-08-14 - Queen Elizabeth I refuses sovereignty of Netherlands
1586-03-08 - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor
1586-09-22 - Battle at Zutphen: English vs Dutch army
1586-10-02 - Battle at Zutphen: English-Dutch army
1587-11-27 - Dutch County Groningen flood by dike break
1587-12-17 - Earl Leicesters army leaves Netherlands
1593-12-15 - State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft
1596-05-26 - England, France & Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain
1596-06-30 - English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz
1596-07-17 - At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya
1596-09-05 - Dutch fleet commander Cornelis de Houtman taken hostage in Java
1596-09-07 - Dutch fleet bombs Banten Java
1596-10-31 - English/French/Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish "Drievoudig Covenant"
1597-06-14 - At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands
1597-08-14 - Cornelis de Houtmans fleet is 1st Dutch visit to Java
1731-03-16 - Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands
1731-12-22 - Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1732-02-20 - Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna
1732-09-06 - VOC fires Neth-Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare
1735-11-30 - States of Holland forbid Free Masonry
1737-04-04 - Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor
1741-04-13 - Dutch people protest bad quality of bread
1744-05-17 - French army takes Austrian Netherlands
1746-09-23 - Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor
1747-04-17 - French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands
1747-05-03 - Willem IV appointed viceroy of Holland/Utrecht
1747-07-01 - Battle at Lafeld: France beat English/Dutch army
1747-11-07 - Organgist in Netherlands revolt under Daniel Raap
1747-11-30 - Dutch State of Zealand declare governorship hereditary for women
1747-12-09 - England & Netherlands sign military treaty
1748-01-26 - England, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty
1748-12-26 - France & Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands
1749-07-21 - Pieter Steyn becomes pension advisor of Holland
1752-02-03 - Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills
1766-02-14 - Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
1766-07-18 - Society of the Dutch Literary forms
1771-10-09 - The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1775-11-14 - -15] Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces
1776-09-06 - Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French & Dutch ships sinks; 600 die
1779-12-31 - English fleet beat Dutch Merchant vessels
1780-12-20 - Britain declares war on Holland
1780-12-20 - England declares war on Netherlands
1781-02-03 - Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by British
1781-08-05 - Battle at Doggers Bank: Dutch fleet vs English fleet
1781-09-25 - -26] Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets
1782-04-19 - John Adams secures Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government and house he purchased in The Hague, Netherlands became first American embassy.
1784-05-20 - England & Netherlands signs peace treaty (Peace of Paris)
1784-06-16 - Holland forbids orange clothes
1785-07-12 - 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
1785-11-10 - Netherlands & France signs treaty
1787-09-13 - Prussian army moves into Netherlands
1787-12-06 - Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor
1788-04-15 - England, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty
1788-08-13 - Prussia joins Anglo-Dutch alliance to form Triple Alliance to prevent spread of Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90
1792-07-25 - Dutch patriots exiles finds "Bataafs Legion"
1793-01-09 - Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
1793-02-01 - France declares war on England & Netherlands
1793-05-19 - Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)
1794-06-16 - 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch)
1795-02-07 - Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
1795-10-01 - France annexes Southern Netherlands
1796-09-02 - Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated
1797-10-17 - Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions & France
1798-04-23 - Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution
1799-08-27 - English invasion army lands in North-Holland
1799-10-02 - Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands
1800-01-01 - Dutch East Indies Company dissolves
1800-10-17 - Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England
1802-03-25 - France, Netherlands, Spain & England signs Peace of Amiens
1802-12-02 - English sell Suriname to Dutch
1806-01-10 - Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
1806-06-05 - Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
1808-01-19 - Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law
1808-08-17 - Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain
1808-10-31 - Holland Brigade battle at Durango, Spain
1809-01-01 - Holland Brigade under brig gen Chasse reaches Madrid
1809-02-01 - Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
1810-07-01 - Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands
1810-07-09 - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
1810-07-10 - Emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France
1811-03-01 - French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel
1811-09-18 - English expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies
1813-11-30 - Prince Willem Frederik returns to Netherlands
1814-03-20 - Prince Willem Frederik becomes monarch of Netherlands
1814-03-25 - Netherlands Bank established
1814-04-05 - Netherlands Bank issues it's 1st banknotes
1814-08-13 - Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch
1815-03-01 - Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law
1815-03-16 - Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
1815-09-29 - King Willem I forms Order of Dutch Lion
1816-02-27 - Dutch regain Suriname
1816-08-19 - Java again in Dutch hands
1816-12-10 - Dutch regain Sumatra
1817-05-15 - Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority, under T Matulesia
1818-05-04 - Netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
1819-01-16 - Godert baron van der de Capellen becomes governor of Dutch-Indies
1819-06-12 - Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra
1820-03-05 - Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
1821-06-23 - Dutch troops conquer Palembang
1822-10-26 - King Willem I obligates inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language
1823-11-12 - Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens
1824-03-17 - England & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
1824-12-16 - Great North Holland Canal opens
1825-02-03 - Dutch North Sea coast floods
1825-08-14 - Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out
1826-01-01 - Baron Van der Capellen resigns as governor of Dutch-Indies
1826-07-30 - Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed
1826-11-15 - Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura
1827-01-01 - Dutch Trade Company NHM gets opium monopoly on Java
1827-08-17 - Dutch King Willem I/Pope Leo XII sign concord
1828-08-24 - Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea
1829-04-28 - Dutch parliament accepts new press laws
1830-03-10 - The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
1830-08-25 - Belgium revolts against Netherlands and begins The Belgian Revolution
1830-09-23 - Dutch troops occupy Brussels
1929-08-07 - Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government
1931-03-21 - KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
1931-10-14 - 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University
1932-02-12 - Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees
1932-04-05 - Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions
1932-04-23 - The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, the Netherlands burns down.
1932-07-14 - Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
1932-07-18 - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign Unity treaty
1932-09-20 - Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer
1932-10-25 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant
1932-11-20 - Earthquake at Uden Netherlands
1933-01-07 - 1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands
1933-02-01 - Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions
1933-02-04 - -Feb 10] Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts
1933-02-05 - Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary
1933-02-10 - Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship
1933-04-22 - Dutch government forbids leftwing radio address
1933-05-10 - Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands
1933-05-26 - 2nd emergency Dutch government of Colijn forms
1933-07-25 - 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
1933-08-01 - Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno
1933-09-12 - Dutch parliament accepts ban on uniforms
1934-01-04 - 1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of Orange," premieres
1934-02-02 - Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism/nazism
1934-03-11 - Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer
1934-03-31 - Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia)
1935-01-15 - 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
1935-03-03 - Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
1935-04-18 - Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote)
1935-07-20 - Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
1935-07-31 - 3rd Dutch government of Colijn sworn in
1935-10-23 - Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
1935-10-27 - SDAP & NVV launchs "Plan for Work" in Utrect Netherlands
1935-12-31 - CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party
1936-05-24 - Dutch bishops forbid membership of Nazi party
1936-06-16 - Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge
1936-06-16 - Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert (Dutch Nazi collaborator)
1936-06-19 - Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl
1936-07-15 - Dutch 2nd Chamber agree to temporarily increase defense budget
1936-09-27 - Netherlands leave Gold Standard/devaluate guilder
1937-03-01 - Gov Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles
1937-05-26 - Dutch Rail NV at law forms
1937-07-10 - Dutch Django Reinhardts "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club"
1937-11-29 - Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in Netherlands
1937-12-07 - Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work
1937-12-24 - Dutch government recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia
1938-01-21 - Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance
1938-05-06 - Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head of state" (Hitler)
1938-05-07 - Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
1938-07-13 - Kroller-Muller museum opens in Holland
1938-07-25 - Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet)
1938-09-06 - Wilhelmina celebrates 40th anniversary jubilee as Dutch queen
1938-09-28 - Dutch Premier Colijn sends radio message "No war coming"
1938-11-14 - Dutch DC3 crashes at Schiphol, 6 die
1938-11-21 - -24] Belgian king Leopold III visits Netherlands
1938-12-06 - 117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands
1938-12-31 - Dutch national debt hits ƒ3,986,629,805.70
1939-02-22 - Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
1939-03-28 - Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down
1939-04-10 - Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
1939-06-29 - 4th Dutch government of Colijn falls
1939-07-25 - 5th & last Dutch government of Colijn, forms
1939-07-28 - 5th Dutch government of Colijn falls
1939-08-10 - 2nd Dutch De Geer government forms (1st with Social Democrats)
1939-08-22 - Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
1939-08-22 - Premier De Geer recalls Dutch vacationers in Black Forest
1939-08-30 - General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army
1939-09-04 - Dutch 2nd Chamber affirms Neth's in a State of War
1939-09-04 - Netherlands & Belgium declare neutrality
1939-10-14 - Sugar rationed in Netherlands
1939-10-16 - Sugar rationing begins in Netherlands
1939-12-31 - Dutch national debt hits ƒ4,218,553,180.99
1940-01-15 - German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
1940-01-21 - Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship
1940-01-30 - Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
1940-02-05 - Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander
1940-04-19 - Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
1940-04-21 - Netherlands beats Belgium 4-2 in soccer
1940-05-04 - 21 "not neutral" nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands
1940-05-10 - Dutch torpedo boat Johan van Galen sinks
1940-05-10 - Dutch-Indies Gov Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege
1940-05-10 - French troops arrive in Zealand/Brabant Netherlands
1940-05-10 - Nazi armies attack Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg
1940-05-13 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England
1940-05-14 - Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany
1940-05-14 - World War II: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.
1940-05-15 - Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)
1940-05-22 - Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis
1940-05-24 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio
1940-05-24 - Dutch army demobilizes
1940-06-01 - Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
1940-06-01 - Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
1940-06-05 - Netherlands rations petroleum
1940-06-10 - German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker
1940-06-15 - Bread & flour rationed in Holland
1940-06-17 - Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland
1940-06-19 - Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses & ships
1940-06-21 - German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State
1940-06-22 - SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond Neth
1940-07-01 - Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees
1949-02-14 - Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
1949-03-01 - Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
1949-04-23 - Netherlands annexes Elten & Tudderen
1949-06-23 - Dutch Constellation plunge at Bari in sea, 33 die
1949-06-30 - Dutch troops evacuate Djakarta
1949-07-12 - Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die
1949-09-20 - Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3%
1949-12-09 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty
1949-12-21 - Dutch 1st Chamber accept soeveregnty of Indonesia
1949-12-27 - Queen Juliana (Netherlands) grants sovereignty to Indonesia
1949-12-27 - United States of Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
1950-01-01 - Dutch government raises all wages 5%, minimally fl. 5 per week
1950-01-16 - Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands recognize Israel
1950-01-20 - Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands
1950-03-27 - Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
1950-04-14 - Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands
1950-05-02 - Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration
1950-05-02 - Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China PR
1950-05-22 - Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize
1950-06-04 - Dutch cyclist Wim van Est wins Bordeaux-Paris (586 km in 17:25)
1950-06-15 - Dutch police seize condoms
1950-06-20 - Dutch Air Force base Tjililitan given to Indonesia
1950-07-26 - KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites
1950-08-17 - Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
1950-10-25 - Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life
1950-10-26 - 630 Dutch volunteers depart (on)to Korea
1951-01-13 - German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison
1951-01-18 - 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands
1951-01-24 - Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns
1951-02-18 - Netherlands Radio School forms
1951-03-13 - 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms
1951-04-04 - Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan & Eva Peron in Buenos Aires
1951-04-18 - Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms
1951-05-01 - Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
1951-07-16 - 1st Dutchman to win Tour de France (Wim Van Est)
1951-07-26 - Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
1951-08-09 - Dutch Korea volunteers win US Collective Unit Citation
1951-11-25 - Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden
1951-12-17 - Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
1952-01-14 - Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends
1952-01-16 - New Dutch bible translation finished
1952-01-31 - Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1½ centuries
1952-03-22 - Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
1952-04-03 - Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress
1952-05-02 - Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherlands which flew from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers
1952-05-21 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
1952-05-29 - 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends
1952-06-25 - Dutch social democratic party wins 2nd-Parliamentary election
1952-06-26 - Dutch social democratic party wins elections (29%)
1952-09-01 - Willem Drees forms new Dutch government
1952-09-24 - Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death
1952-10-21 - Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian)
1952-10-25 - 1st Dutch edition of youth magazine "Donald Duck"
1953-01-27 - Netherlands end Marshall aid
1953-01-31 - Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning 1,835
1953-02-01 - Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835
1953-03-15 - West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
1953-05-26 - Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die
1953-05-27 - Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
1953-06-09 - South African premier Malan visits Netherlands
1953-08-23 - Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
1953-09-28 - Dutch government proclaims 5% general pay increase on Jan 1, 1954
1953-10-14 - 1st 3 Dutch female police officers go into service
1954-01-23 - Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP
1954-02-03 - Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32)
1954-04-01 - 1st Dutch motorway, Amsterdam-Utrecht, opens
1954-05-30 - Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
1954-06-16 - Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months
1954-09-05 - Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die
1954-11-28 - 1st pro football game in Netherlands
1954-12-15 - Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
1954-12-29 - Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being
1955-02-09 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law
1955-03-06 - Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' "Waiting for Godot"
1955-03-15 - Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
1955-03-16 - Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
1955-05-17 - Dutch government of Drees resigns
1955-12-14 - Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar
1956-02-14 - Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
1956-04-10 - Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs
1956-06-13 - Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49
1956-08-04 - Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands
1956-09-13 - Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes
1956-10-12 - Marga Klompe becomes 1st Dutch women elected minister
1956-11-05 - Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
1956-11-06 - Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary
1957-01-09 - Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
1957-01-26 - Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms
1957-03-17 - Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1957-07-04 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase
1957-07-15 - Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
1957-09-28 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Velser Tunnels
1957-10-17 - Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed
1957-12-05 - Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
1957-12-06 - Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
1958-02-07 - Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced
1958-06-23 - Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers
1958-06-30 - Dutch government of Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers
1958-12-02 - Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg
1958-12-03 - Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
1971-08-26 - Dutch Queen Juliana & Prince Bernhard visit Indonesia
1971-10-09 - Japans emperor Hirohito visits Netherlands
1971-12-18 - US dollar devalued 7.9% in Holland ($1=Ÿ3,245)
1972-04-17 - Revised Dutch constitution proclaimed
1972-06-01 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin
1972-07-07 - Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage
1972-08-13 - Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th & last "Bonanza"
1972-09-25 - Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber
1973-01-05 - Netherlands recognizes German DR
1973-04-09 - Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam
1973-05-11 - Dutch government of Uyl forms
1973-06-22 - Dutch High Council stops fluorine addition to drink water
1973-08-03 - National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections
1973-08-19 - Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years
1973-09-02 - Netherlands wins hockey world's championship
1973-09-15 - Dutch Guilder devalued 5%
1973-10-17 - 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against US & Netherlands begins
1973-11-04 - The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are solely used by cyclists and roller skaters.
1973-12-20 - Dutch Antillean government of Evertsz forms
1974-01-07 - Dutch rations gasoline
1974-02-04 - Petroleum rationing ends in Netherlands
1974-02-06 - Dutch speed limit set at 100km due to oil crisis
1974-04-24 - Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
1974-07-10 - OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands
1974-08-30 - Launching of 1st Dutch satellite, ANS, from Vandenberg
1974-09-01 - Dutch law against pirate radio goes into effect
1974-12-04 - Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims
1975-05-24 - Dutch government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16
1975-06-01 - Cars in Netherlands must have seatbelts
1975-09-27 - Government De Uyl recalls Dutch ambassador from Spain
1975-11-25 - Netherlands grants Suriname independence (Natl Day)
1976-01-08 - Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles
1976-04-29 - Minister Irene Vorrink begins fluoridating Dutch drinking water
1976-05-01 - Jos Hermens, runs Dutch record for 20K (57:24.2)
1976-07-14 - USSR banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands
1976-09-29 - 2nd Chamber recognizes Dutch Liberals/social democratic abortion law
1976-10-01 - 1st Dutch casino opens
1976-12-14 - Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws
1977-03-22 - Dutch Den Uyl government falls
1977-04-03 - Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time
1977-04-27 - HCC, Hobby Computer Club, forms in Netherlands
1977-05-14 - Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms
1977-05-25 - Dutch social democratic party wins parliamentary election
1977-06-11 - Dutch marines rescued hostages from a Moluccan held train in Holland
1977-09-30 - Dutch Antillean government-Evertsz resigns
1977-11-12 - New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial
1977-12-18 - Dutch Antilles: premier Boy Rozendal points independence off
1977-12-19 - Dutch government of Van Agt/Wiegel forms
1978-03-07 - Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb
1978-05-24 - Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect
1978-06-25 - Argentina beats Holland 3-1 in soccer's 11th World Cup at Buenos Aires
1978-09-24 - Dutch women hockey team wins world championship
1978-10-20 - US dollar devalued below Dutch Ÿ2
1978-12-04 - Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed
1979-07-08 - Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles
1980-01-25 - Dutch government demands boycott of Olympics
1980-04-26 - Gerard Nijboer runs Dutch record marathon (2:09:01)
1980-04-30 - Beatrix, Wilhelmina Armgard, crowned queen of Netherlands
1980-04-30 - Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, abdicates
1980-06-18 - Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa
1980-07-09 - Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years
1980-08-16 - Jools Holland quits Squeeze
1980-09-01 - Dutch embassy in Israel moves from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv
1980-12-18 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts minister Van Agts abortion laws
1981-02-01 - Dutch Antilles census is 231,932
1981-03-17 - FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
1981-06-11 - Cannibal Issei Sagawa kills Dutch student
1981-10-05 - Dutch guilder/Deutsche mark revalued up 5.5%
1981-10-16 - 2nd Dutch government of Van Agt resigns
1981-11-14 - Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again
1981-12-16 - Dutch Van Agt's 2nd government falls
1981-12-31 - Netherlands unemployment stands at record 475,000
1982-03-17 - 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
1982-04-21 - Dutch Queen Beatrice addresses US Congress
1982-09-06 - Dutch Internal minister Mr M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
1982-09-08 - Dutch social dem party wins elections, fascist enters Dutch parliament
1982-11-04 - Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch premier
1983-01-15 - Dutch political party DS'70 disbands
1983-01-26 - Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from Calif
1983-10-21 - Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops
1983-10-29 - 550,000 Dutch demonstrate against cruise missile
1984-02-01 - China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations
1984-06-01 - Netherlands' Lubbers government gives 48 sites for cruise missiles
1984-06-22 - Jolande van de Meer swims Dutch record 800 m freestyle (8:39.30)
1984-08-11 - Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms
1984-09-26 - Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University
1984-11-23 - Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 & Bob Holland age 38 (v WI)
1984-12-02 - Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG
1985-01-02 - Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts
1985-02-27 - US dollar is worth Ÿ3.9355 (Netherlands)
1985-05-11 - Pope John Paul II arrives in Netherlands
1985-06-06 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts "status" of Aruba
1985-07-09 - South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong
1985-07-20 - The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
1986-01-06 - Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland
1986-01-07 - Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes
1986-01-19 - Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands
1986-04-17 - Netherlands & Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)
1986-06-22 - Pirate Radio Euro Weekend (Holland) begins transmitting
1986-07-08 - Zimbabwe beats Netherlands by 25 runs to win ICC Trophy
1987-09-07 - Netherlands routes 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf
1987-09-07 - South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young
1987-10-23 - Dutch government gives Fokker's Aircraft Ÿ212 million credit
1987-11-15 - Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)
1988-03-02 - Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP
1988-11-15 - The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
1989-02-25 - Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
1989-02-26 - Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa)
1989-02-27 - German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland
1989-05-23 - Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe
1990-02-28 - Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine
1990-04-28 - Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)
1990-06-23 - Zimbabwe beat the Netherlands by 6 wickets to win ICC Trophy
1990-08-15 - Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990)
1991-01-27 - Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands
1991-02-16 - Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands
1991-03-30 - Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vr˜e Folk" (Free People)
1991-09-22 - ABN & AMRO Dutch banks merge
1991-11-01 - New Dutch Regulations Traffic rules & Traffic signs enforced
1991-11-13 - Bomb attack on Aad Kosto, Dutch social dem party-asst sec of state
1992-01-01 - Curacao becomes 1st in Dutch Antilles to have compulsory education
1992-02-20 - Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands
1992-04-13 - 5.5 earthquake hits Netherlands
1992-10-10 - Floriade (Flower Show) closes at Hague, Netherlands
1992-12-21 - Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die
1993-05-12 - Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands
1993-05-13 - Arsenio Hall's 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands
1993-05-13 - CBS' Knots Landing ends 14 year run with 334th show in Netherlands
1993-06-24 - Arab terror group plans bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught
1993-10-28 - Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns
1993-11-19 - Curacaose vote to remain part of Dutch Antilles
1993-11-25 - Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters falls
1993-12-28 - Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms
1994-01-15 - Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)
1994-03-22 - Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton)
1994-05-03 - D66/Dutch Liberal Party win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
1994-11-03 - Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1
1994-11-15 - Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
1994-12-29 - Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down
1994-12-31 - Anti Apartheid Group of Netherlands (AABN) disbands
1995-03-06 - US 4.5 cents equals 156.30 Dutch guilder (record)
1995-03-07 - Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)
1995-03-08 - Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
1995-03-17 - British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
1995-06-27 - Holland's debut in English domestic comp (v Northants, NatWest)
1995-10-10 - Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
1996-02-17 - 1st full ODI for the Netherlands, v NZ, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47
1996-04-30 - Dutch/Itallian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral
1996-06-16 - 1st competitive game played on turf in Holland (in third grade)
1996-07-15 - A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
1996-07-19 - Ireland beats Netherlands in 1st European Championship Final
1996-09-14 - Tara Dawn Holland (Kansas), 23, crowned 70th Miss America 1997
1996-11-06 - LA Dodger Todd Hollandsworth wins NL Rookie of Year
1997-10-05 - 35th Tennis Fed Cup: France beats Netherlands in Den Bosch Neth (4-1)
1998-01-29 - Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die
1998-08-24 - The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing.
1999-04-05 - Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
1999-05-27 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
2000-05-02 - Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument in Apeldoorn and the other in Ottawa on May 11, 2000. Symbolically linking both Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout World War II.
2000-05-13 - In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
2000-09-12 - Holland (the Netherlands) passes law allowing same-gender marriage, adoption and divorce.
2001-01-31 - In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2001-04-01 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, which is the first country to allow it.
2002-04-01 - The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.
2002-05-06 - Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is shot and killed by an animal rights activist.
2002-05-11 - Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument in Ottawa and Apeldoorn (May 2), 2000, symbolically linking both the Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout the Second World War.
2003-02-27 - Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic is sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to 11 years in prison
2005-06-01 - The Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
2009-04-30 - Failed attack on the Dutch Royal Family results in 7 deaths and 17 injured.
2010-10-10 - The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved.
2011-04-09 - A gunman murdered five people, injured eleven, and committed suicide in a mall in the Netherlands.
2012-04-21 - Two trains in Sloterdijk, Netherlands, injure 117 people in a head on collision
2012-04-23 - Netherlands Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, tenders resignation, paving the way for early elections
2012-05-06 - Francois Hollande elected President of France
2012-06-15 - Five Dutch banks, including ING, receive credit rating downgrades of one or two notches
2012-09-25 - Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the Netherlands