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Events in Amsterdam History

Events 1 - 100 of 323

Great Wood Ban of Amsterdam

1521-10-25 Holy Roman Emperor Charles V bans wooden buildings in Amsterdam and decrees new building have to be built from stone

1523-11-30 Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics
1531-05-31 Dutch Catholic activist Engel Korsendochter leads a march of 300 women from the Guild of the Holy Sacrament protesting plans to replace a treasured chapel with a wool warehouse in Amsterdam; they are charged with rebellion, fined, and banished for 4 years - most were pardoned upon appeal to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
1535-02-10 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1540-03-19 Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic"
1566-08-23 Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam
1577-11-23 Water Geuzen under Captain Slope enters Amsterdam
1580-03-17 Prince William I of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
1585-07-25 Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics
1596-05-18 Dutch explorer Willem Barents sets off from Amsterdam on his third expedition to try to find a Northwest passage through the Arctic

Second Dutch Expedition to East Indies

1598-03-25 Cornelis de Houtman's fleet departs Amsterdam for the East Indies (Indonesia) on his second voyage in search of the then exotic spices, cloves, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon and pepper

1603-08-22 1st stones laid in Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam
1609-01-31 Wisselbank of Amsterdam established
1613-01-24 Amsterdam merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized
1614-04-25 Amsterdam Bank of Loan forms
1614-10-11 Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony.
1619-04-19 Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam
1620-12-02 English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam
1638-01-03 Schouwburg Theater, the 1st in Amsterdam, opens
1638-09-01 -4] French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam
1648-01-20 Cornerstone of Amsterdam townhall laid
1650-07-30 William II of Orange occupies Amsterdam
1650-08-03 Dutch Stadtholder William II and Amsterdam reach accord about a standing army
1651-03-05 South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm
1652-07-06 Fire on Dutch Dam (Amsterdam's city hall burns)
1655-04-19 Adriana Nooseman becomes Dutch 1st actress to perform on stage professionally in the Netherlands in the play "Onvergelijkelijke Ariana" at Amsterdam Schouwburg
1655-07-29 Biggest townhall in the world opens in Amsterdam
1664-08-29 Adriaen Pieck and Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam
1672-02-23 Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam
1675-08-10 Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam
1675-11-04 Storm hits Western Europe: flood in Amsterdam
1680-12-31 De Italiaanse Opera (The Italian Opera) theater opens on the Leidsegracht in Amsterdam with "La Fatiche d'Ercole per Deianira" by PA Ziani
1682-03-09 De Italiaanse Opera (The Italian Opera) theater on the Leidsegracht in Amsterdam closes less than 1-1/2 years after opening

Earl of Shaftesbury Flees

1682-12-02 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury flees to Amsterdam following the failure of his plots to prevent a Catholic succession should King Charles II die

The Glorious Revolution

1688-09-26 City council of Amsterdam votes to support Prince William of Orange's invasion of England, which became known as 'The Glorious Revolution' in the Netherlands

1696-01-31 Revolt by undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam)
1716-01-08 Amsterdam gang leader and thief "Sjako" arrested
1717-01-14 German mob leader and thief "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam
1748-06-03 Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service
1748-06-28 Riot after public execution in Amsterdam, 200+ killed
1751-09-12 Amsterdam refuses establishment of Jewish ghetto
1754-01-15 Riot at burial of Orangist leader Daniel Raap in Amsterdam
1770-04-19 Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname
1771-07-31 Dutch painter of animals Paulus Potters' "Great Ox Herd" sold for Ÿ9050 in Amsterdam
1771-11-16 West Indian Company & Amsterdam divide up Suriname
1772-05-11 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire, 18 killed, in Amsterdam, Northern Netherlands
1778-09-04 City of Amsterdam signs trade agreement with American rebels
1787-09-15 -16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam
1787-10-02 Maagden House opens in Amsterdam
1787-10-10 Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army
1795-01-18 French forces admitted to Amsterdam without resistance
1795-01-19 Democratic revolution in Amsterdam results in establishment of shot-lived Batavian Republic
1795-03-05 Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution
1796-05-10 Riot after disagreement of patriotic demand in Amsterdam
1798-11-19 Dutch Rijksmuseum founded in the Hague (moved to Amsterdam 1808)

Siege of Fort Amsterdam

1804-02-26 Vice-admiral William Bligh (of Bounty fame) ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad

1810-07-04 French troops occupy Amsterdam
1813-11-15 Tax revolt in Amsterdam
1823-11-12 Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens
1828-01-05 1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad)
1828-04-04 Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder in Amsterdam
1830-10-01 General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam
1839-09-02 Salon of Varietes opens in Amsterdam
1839-09-20 1st railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)
1843-12-06 Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens
1845-09-10 King Willem II opens Amsterdam Stock exchange
1848-03-24 State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam
1851-05-18 Amsterdam-Nieuwediep telegraph connection linked
1854-05-01 Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes
1856-11-16 Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens
1864-08-16 Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam
1867-07-16 Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam
1869-06-28 Amsterdam typographer strike
1870-06-11 1st-stone Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam

Marx in Amsterdam

1872-09-10 Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam

Communist Philosopher, Economist, Sociologist and Revolutionary Karl Marx

1876-08-24 Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed
1876-11-01 King Willem III of the Netherlands opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)
1877-07-01 1st edition of "Amsterdammer" published
1878-07-07 Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam
1880-10-20 Amsterdam Free University opens
1882-02-12 Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam
1882-12-02 Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium
1883-04-24 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair
1883-05-01 Amsterdam World's Fair opens
1883-08-01 Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights
1883-08-12 The last quagga (zebra subspecies with less slashes) dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
1885-11-23 Amsterdam police attack meeting of social-democrats united
1887-12-02 Amsterdam's Oscar Carrés Circus Theater opens
1888-04-11 The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated
1888-11-03 Concertgebouw Orchestra debuts in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, under the baton of founding conductor Willem Kes
1889-10-15 Amsterdam Central Station officially opens
1890-01-21 1st issue of "Propria Cures", Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper
1890-02-20 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire

Merwede Canal Opens

1892-08-04 Queen Wilhelmina and Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam and the Rhine

Queen of the Netherlands Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

1892-09-16 Amsterdam swimming club renamed "The Y"
1894-02-05 Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
1894-09-02 -3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens

Famous People from Amsterdam

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 567

1549-03-11 Henric Laurenszoon Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance writer and poet (Hertspiegel), born in Amsterdam (d. 1612)
1565-05-15 Henrick de Keyser, Dutch architect and sculptor (master builder of Amsterdam, Zuiderkerk church), born in Utrecht (d. 1621)
1571-01-21 Johannes Isacius Pontanus, Dutch teacher and historian (1st history of Amsterdam), born at sea off the coast of Helsingør, Denmark (d. 1639)
1574-09-16 Samuel Coster, Dutch physician and playwright (Polyxena), born in Amsterdam (d. 1665)
1583-01-08 Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1643)
1583-02-02 Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poet, born in Amsterdam (d. 1651)
1585-03-16 Gerbrant A Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (Klucht van de Koe), born in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (d. 1618)
1591-05-26 Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer, baptized in Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (d. 1652)
1592-05-13 John Cloppenburg, Dutch Calvinist theologian, born in Amsterdam (d. 1652)
1593-10-11 Nicolaas Tulp, Mayor of Amsterdam (1654-71), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1674)
1594-03-25 Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch writer and glass engraver (Muiderkring group), born in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (d. 1649)
1595-02-02 Jacob van Campen, Dutch painter and architect (New Church, Amsterdam), born in Haarlem (d. 1657)
1599-03-08 Suzanna van Baerle, Dutch poet ("Dagh-werck" written with her husband, Constantijn Huygens), born in Amsterdam (d. 1637)
1605-02-01 Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, Portuguese-Jewish rabbi, scholar and religious writer prominent in Amsterdam and in Dutch Brazil, born in Castro Daire, Portugal (d. 1693)
1606-10-14 Joan Maetsuyker, Dutch colonial ruler (Governor-general of Dutch East Indies, 1653-78; Governor of Zeylon, 1646-50), born in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (d. 1678)
1609-08-30 Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (Amsterdam townhall), born in Antwerp (d. 1668)

1611-02-19 Andries de Graeff, Dutch leader during Dutch Golden Age (Mayor of Amsterdam 1657-71), born in Amsterdam (d. 1678)
1614-02-23 Jacob Colijns, Dutch coat of arms painter, born in Amsterdam (d. 1686)
1618-01-14 Jan Six, Dutch merchant and Mayor of Amsterdam (friend and subject of painter Rembrandt), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1700)
1618-11-29 Jean Deutz, Dutch merchant, banker and financier, born in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (d. 1673)
1619-10-08 Philipp von Zesen, German poet and historian (Bescheibung of Amsterdam), born in Dessau, Germany (d. 1689)
1619-11-15 Philips Koninck, Dutch landscape painter, born in Amsterdam (d. 1688)
1621-08-19 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter, born in Amsterdam (d. 1674)
1626-01-25 John van de Cappelle, Dutch painter, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1679)
1626-06-13 Adriana Nooseman [van de Bergh], Dutch actress, 1st to perform professionally in the Netherlands ("Onvergelijkelijke Ariana" at Amsterdam Schouwburg), born in Middelburg, Netherlands (d. 1661) [birth date uncertain]
1626-07-25 Gerard Brandt, Dutch theologist, poet and historian, born in Amsterdam (d. 1685)
1628-04-23 Johan van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (Concerning Reduction of Equations) and Mayor of Amsterdam (1672-1703), born in Amsterdam (d. 1704)
1629-04-23 Jan Commelin, Dutch botanist and director of Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1692)
1632-11-24 Baruch Spinoza, Dutch rationalist philosopher, born in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (d. 1677)
1633-06-19 Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Remonstrants theologist and vicar, born in Amsterdam (d. 1712)
1637-02-12 Jan Swammerdam, Dutch anatomist and entomologist (Bible of Nature), born in Amsterdam (d. 1680)

1637-11-21 Catharina Questiers, Dutch poet (Friend of Abandoned Child), born in Amsterdam (d. 1669)
1638-10-31 Meindert Hobbema, Dutch landscape painter, baptized in Amsterdam (d. 1709)
1641-05-08 Nicolaas Witsen, Dutch statesman and mayor of Amsterdam, born in Amsterdam (d. 1717)
1644-04-17 Abraham Jansz Storck, Dutch painter, baptized in Amsterdam (d. 1708)
1645-09-10 Romeyn de Hooghe, Dutch painter and goldsmith, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1708)
1648-04-16 John Luyken, Dutch poet and etcher (Duytse Lyre), born in Amsterdam (d. 1712)
1648-11-27 Petrus Codde, Dutch Roman Catholic apostole vicar (1688-1704), born in Amsterdam (d. 1710)
1653-11-16 Joan van Hoorn, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1704-09), born in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (d. 1711)
1655-07-26 Jean Deutz van Assendelft, Dutch merchant and Amsterdam regent, born in Amsterdam (d. 1719)
1657-08-10 Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch VOC merchant and plantation owner in Batavia who freed his slaves, born in Amsterdam (d. 1714)
1660-06-03 Johannes Schenck, Dutch born composer, baptized in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (d. c. 1712)
1664-11-16 Abraham Alewijn, Dutch poet and playwright (Puiterveense Helleveeg), born in Amsterdam (d. 1721)
1682-04-15 Jann van Huysum, Dutch painter (still lives of flowers and fruit), born in Amsterdam (d. 1749)
1685-01-07 George Clifford III, Dutch director of East India Company and plant collector (grew 1st banana indoors), born in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (d. 1760)
1685-06-03 Cornelis Hop, Mayor of Amsterdam and diplomat, born in Amsterdam (d. 1762)

1691-12-10 Cornelis Pronk, Dutch portrait painter and cartoonist, born in Amsterdam (d. 1759)
1692-05-03 Jan Jacob Mauricius, Dutch governor-general of Suriname (1742-51), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1768)
1695-04-10 Balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator and historian, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1778)
1695-06-06 Adriaen Valckenier, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1737-41), born in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (d. 1751)
1696-10-08 Cornelis Troost, Dutch portrait painter (Unseemly Love), born in Amsterdam (d. 1750)
1697-09-06 Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent, banker and merchant, born in Amsterdam (d. 1757)
1700-12-22 Egbert de Vrij Temminck, Amsterdam regent, born in Amsterdam (d. 1785)
1707-04-26 Johannes Burman, Dutch botanist, plant author and physician, born in Amsterdam (d. 1779)
1709-10-25 Jan Wagenaar, Dutch merchant and historian, born in Amsterdam (d. 1773)
1711-04-02 Jan Punt, Dutch engraver, painter, illustrator and actor (Gideonschool), born in Amsterdam (d. 1779)
1712-09-01 Simon Fokke, Dutch book illustrator, engraver and etcher, born in Amsterdam (d. 1784)
1713-10-23 Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1778)
1719-08-27 Jan Nepveu, Dutch governor of Suriname (1768-79), born in Amsterdam (d. 1779)
1721-08-21 Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken, Dutch poet, born in Amsterdam (d. 1789)
1724-09-01 John Nieuwenhuijzen, Dutch theologist (co-founder Foundation 't Nut), born in Amsterdam (d. 1806)
1724-11-21 Jan Ekels the Elder, Amsterdam painter and cartoonist, born in Amsterdam (d. 1781)
1729-03-28 Pieter Fouquet, Dutch art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), born in Amsterdam (d. 1800)
1729-05-25 Jean de Neufville, Dutch-American merchant (started 4th English war), born in Amsterdam (d. 1796)
1737-05-03 Friedrich Schwindl, Dutch composer, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1786)

1795-01-15 Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant & man of letters, born in Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (d. 1844) [1]
1795-08-22 Abraham Capadose, Dutch physician and missionary, born in Amsterdam, Batatvian Republic (d. 1874)
1796-05-17 Martinus Niewindt, Dutch Bishop of Curacao (advocate for fair treatment and abolition of slavery), born in Amsterdam (d. 1860)
1798-01-14 Isaac da Costa, Jewish poet, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1860)
1801-01-29 Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist, composer, and conductor (Felix Meritis Society, 1829-57), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1857)
1801-03-15 Coenraad Johannes van Houten, Dutch chemist and cocoa manufacturer (Dutch process chocolate), born in Amsterdam, Batavian Republic (d. 1887)
1802-01-31 Jan van Speyk, Dutch naval hero (blew up own gunboat to avoid capture during Belgian Revolution), born in Amsterdam (d. 1831)
1802-03-24 Jacob van Lennep, Dutch poet and novelist (The Adopted Son), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1868)
1803-04-18 Charles Ferdinand Pahud, Governor General of the Dutch East Indies (1856-61), born in Amsterdam (d. 1873)
1803-09-01 Jacobus Abels, Dutch painter (moonlit landscapes), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1866)
1803-11-18 Cornelis Broere, Dutch Roman Catholic priest and poet, born in Amsterdam (d. 1860)
1804-04-23 Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium), born in Amsterdam (d. 1869)
1804-09-23 David Van de Kellen, Dutch coin engraver, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1879)
1806-06-13 Bernard ter Haar, Dutch poet (Herbert and Clara) and church historian, born in Amsterdam (d. 1880)
1807-01-12 Jan Theodoor Beelen, Dutch-Belgian bible scholar, born in Amsterdam (d. 1884)
1808-03-23 Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist and historian (Statistic yearbook), born in Amsterdam, Kingdom of Holland (d. 1876)