Dutch History Timeline (Part 3)

Events 401 - 600 of 1,791

• 1709-09-11 Battle at Malplaquet during War of the Spanish Succession: English, Austrian and Dutch Great Alliance defeat France
• 1709-10-29 England & Netherlands sign anti-French "Barrieretraktaat"

• 1712-05-17 Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands"
• 1712-07-24 Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army
• 1713-01-30 England & Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty
• 1713-02-10 Netherlands & Britain sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier [OS=Jan 31]
• 1713-04-11 Great Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Prussia, Savoy, Portugal & France agree the Treaty of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces in North America to Britain
• 1713-04-12 Dutch State-Gen signs peace with France: Netherlands loses Orange Princedom
• 1714-06-26 Spain & Netherlands sign peace and trade agreement
• 1714-10-07 People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar, Netherlands
• 1715-11-15 Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands
• 1716-01-08 Amsterdam gang leader and thief "Sjako" arrested
• 1716-02-06 Britain & Netherlands renew alliance
• 1716-06-25 Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands
• 1717-01-04 Netherlands, Great Britain & France sign Triple Alliance
• 1717-01-14 German mob leader and thief "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam
• 1717-12-25 Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces, thousands killed
• 1718-08-02 Austria joins Triple Alliance of Britain, France and the Dutch Republic forming the Quadruple Alliance, to fight against Spain
• 1719-02-12 The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded
• 1720-09-12 Isaak of Hoornbeek elected Dutch pension advisor

• 1724-10-15 Cornelis Steenoven is 1st archbishop of Old Catholic church in Utrecht, The Netherlands

• 1726-08-09 Netherlands accedes to the Covenant of Hanover which created an alliance of Great Britain, the Electorate of Hanover, France and the Kingdom of Prussia united against the Austro-Spanish powers
• 1727-05-31 France, Britain & Netherlands sign accord of Paris
• 1727-07-17 Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor
• 1729-11-29 Netherlands signs on to Treaty of Seville, restoring France and England's trading privileges with Spain
• 1730-07-21 States of Holland put death penalty on "sodomy"
• 1731-09-03 William IV Prince of Orange installed asStadtholder of Friesland
• 1731-12-22 Dutch people revolt against meat tax
• 1732-02-20 Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna
• 1732-09-06 VOC dismisses Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare
• 1734-11-08 Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in the Netherlands
• 1735-11-30 States of Holland forbid Free Masonry
• 1737-04-04 Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor
• 1740-10-09 Dutch governor of the East Indies Adriaan Valckenier allows the massacre of around 10,000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia
• 1741-04-13 Dutch people protest poor quality of bread
• 1744-05-17 French army takes Austrian Netherlands
• 1745-01-08 Britain, Austria, Netherlands & Saxony sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance
• 1746-09-23 Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor
• 1746-10-11 Battle of Rocoux: French defeat British, Austrian and Dutch armies
• 1747-04-17 French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands
• 1747-05-03 William IV Prince of Orange appointed Stadtholder of Holland and Utrecht
• 1747-05-16 William V Prince of Orange sworn in as Admiral-general of Netherlands
• 1747-07-01 Battle at Lafeld: France force beats British and Dutch army in Belgium during the Austrian War of Succession
• 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 Great Britain & Netherlands sign military treaty
• 1748-01-26 Britain, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty
• 1748-12-26 France & Austria sign treaty about Southern Netherlands
• 1749-06-21 Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Netherlands
• 1749-07-21 Pieter Steyn becomes pension advisor of Holland
• 1752-02-03 Dutch States-General forbids export of windmills
• 1766-02-14 Dutch governor Falck and King Keerthisiri Rajasinghe of Kandy sign Treaty of Batticaloa
• 1766-07-18 Society of the Dutch Literary forms
• 1771-07-31 Dutch painter of animals Paulus Potters' "Great Ox Herd" sold for Ÿ9050 in Amsterdam
• 1771-10-09 The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
• 1772-05-11 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire, 18 killed, in Amsterdam, Northern Netherlands
• 1775-11-14 -15] Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces
• 1776-09-06 Hurricane hits Martinique; 100 French and Dutch ships sink; 600 die
• 1776-11-16 1st gun salute for an American warship in a foreign port - US Andrew Doria at Fort St Eustatius (Dutch Caribbean isalnd)
• 1779-12-31 British fleet beat Dutch Merchant vessels
• 1780-12-20 Britain declares war on Holland
• 1781-02-03 Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by British
• 1781-08-05 Battle of Dogger Bank (Fourth Anglo-Dutch War): a British strategic victory, although both sides claimed to have won
• 1781-09-25 -26] Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets

• 1784-05-20 Britain & Netherlands sign peace treaty (Peace of Paris)
• 1784-06-16 Holland forbids the wearing of orange clothes
• 1785-07-12 1st manned flight in Netherlands: Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard lifts off in his gas balloon from Noordeinde Palace in The Hauge
• 1786-09-04 -5] William of Orange's troops plunder Netherlands towns of Hattem and Elburg
• 1787-09-13 Prussian army moves into Netherlands
• 1787-12-06 Laurens Pieter van de Speigel is appointed Dutch pension advisor
• 1788-04-15 Britain, 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 found "Bataafs Legion"
• 1793-01-09 Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery
• 1793-02-01 France declares war on Great Britain and Netherlands
• 1793-02-11 Prussian troops occupy Venlo, Netherlands
• 1793-03-04 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands
• 1793-04-29 Cornerstone laid for Groningen's new town hall in the Netherlands
• 1793-05-19 Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)
• 1794-06-16 1st stone laid at biggest Dutch grain windmill De Walvisch in Schiedam

• 1794-09-27 French troops conquer Dutch fortress Fort Crèvecoeur after a short siege
• 1794-10-29 French troops occupy Venlo (modern south east Netherlands)
• 1795-01-16 French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht, Netherlands

• 1795-02-05 Zealand, Netherlands, surrenders to French general Michaud
• 1795-02-07 Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
• 1795-09-15 Dutch East India controlled Cape Colony (present day South Africa) surrenders to Britain
• 1795-09-16 British capture Capetown, South Africa, from the Dutch
• 1795-10-01 France annexes Southern Netherlands
• 1796-09-02 Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated
• 1797-10-11 Battle of Camperdown (Kamperduin): British navy defeats Dutch fleet
• 1797-10-17 Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions & France
• 1798-04-23 Dutch emperor accepts new Constitution
• 1798-11-19 Dutch Rijksmuseum founded in the Hague (moved to Amsterdam 1808)
• 1798-12-05 Dutch troops occupy Hasselt
• 1799-08-27 British invasion army lands in North Holland
• 1799-08-30 Batavian fleet surrenders to British navy during Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland
• 1799-10-02 Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands
• 1799-10-06 Battle of Castricum: Franco-Dutch army beats British-Russian army
• 1799-10-09 Sinking of British frigate HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and cargo worth £1,200,000 off Dutch coast
• 1799-10-10 Convention of Alkmaar: British-Russian invasion army departs Holland
• 1800-01-01 Dutch East Indies Company dissolves
• 1800-10-17 Dutch colony Curacao transfererd to Great Britain

• 1802-12-02 Britain sells Suriname to the Netherlands
• 1804-04-28 31 British ships sail up Suriname river demanding transition colony from the Dutch
• 1804-04-30 The New Hague Theater opens in The Hague, Netherlands
• 1806-01-10 Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
• 1806-06-05 Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
• 1807-01-12 Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden, Netherlands, 150 die
• 1808-01-10 Herman Daendels succeeds Albertus Wiese as Governor-General of Dutch-East Indies
• 1808-01-19 Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law

• 1808-10-31 Holland Brigade battle at Durango, Spain
• 1809-01-01 Holland Brigade under Brigadier-General David Hendrik Chassé reaches Madrid (Napoleonic Wars)
• 1809-02-01 Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
• 1810-07-01 Louis Napoleon abdicates as king of the Netherlands
• 1810-07-09 Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire
• 1811-03-01 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel

• 1813-11-12 Allied troops occupy Zwolle, Netherlands
• 1813-11-29 Dutch politician Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes Minister of Finance
• 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 its 1st banknotes
• 1814-04-09 Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance of the Netherlands
• 1814-08-01 Dutch King William I accepts blame for Southern defeat
• 1814-08-13 Anglo-Dutch Treaty: Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to the British and transporting of slaves prohibited
• 1815-03-01 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law
• 1815-03-16 Willem I proclaimed King of the Netherlands, including Belgium

• 1815-04-10 Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies experiences a cataclysmic eruption, one of the most powerful in history, killing around 71,000 people, causes global volcanic winter
• 1815-09-29 Dutch King William I forms the Dutch Order of the Lion, oldest and highest civilian order of chivalry in the Netherlands
• 1816-02-27 Dutch regain Suriname from the French after the defeat of Napoleon
• 1816-08-19 Java returns to Dutch rule after being controlled by the British for five years
• 1816-12-10 Dutch regain Sumatra from the British
• 1817-05-15 Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority (modern Indonesia), under Thomas Matulesia (aka Kapitan Pattimura)
• 1818-05-04 Netherlands & Britain sign treaty against illegal slave handling
• 1819-01-16 Godert van der Capellen, becomes Governor-General of Dutch East 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
• 1820-07-01 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published in the Netherlands
• 1821-06-23 Dutch troops conquer Palembang
• 1822-10-26 King Willem I requires inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language
• 1823-06-16 Dutch King William I opens the Fijenoord shipyard at Rotterdam
• 1823-11-12 Great North Holland Canal (Amsterdam) opens
• 1824-03-17 Britain & 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 William I expels foreign students
• 1826-01-01 Godert van der Capellen resigns as governor of Dutch-Indies
• 1826-07-30 Javanese Prince Diponegoro mounts a surprise attack on the Dutch colony, killing 82
• 1826-08-24 Netherlands' South Willems Port (Bosch-Liege) opens
• 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 William I and 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
• 1830-03-28 Javanese Prince Diponegoro, leader of resistance against Dutch colonial rule is arrested by Dutch authorities during peace negotiations
• 1830-08-25 Belgium revolts against Netherlands and begins the Belgian Revolution
• 1830-09-23 Dutch troops occupy Brussels
• 1830-09-27 Dutch army leaves Brussels, after hundreds killed
• 1830-10-04 Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
• 1830-10-05 King Willem I mobilizes Dutch army
• 1831-07-21 Belgium gains independence from Netherlands, Leopold I made king
• 1831-08-02 Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium
• 1831-08-08 Battle of Hasselt - Dutch army drives out Belgians
• 1831-08-12 Dutch troops conquer Leuven
• 1831-08-12 Netherlands & Belgium sign peace treaty
• 1832-01-17 Johannes van den Bosch appointed governor general of Dutch East Indies
• 1832-12-23 Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender
• 1833-11-18 Netherlands & Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven
• 1836-02-22 Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea
• 1838-09-05 Central Museum opens in Utrecht, Netherlands
• 1840-01-20 Dutch King Willem II crowned
• 1840-06-12 Meteorite hits Uden, Netherlands
• 1840-10-07 Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands
• 1842-01-08 Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft

• 1845-03-14 -5.3°F (-20.7°C) in Groningen, Netherlands
• 1845-05-14 Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens
• 1847-03-18 1st Dutch public telegram
• 1848-05-17 Gerrit, Count Schimmelpenninck resigns as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Netherlands
• 1848-07-19 German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg
• 1848-11-03 Johan Thorbeckes revises the Constitution of the Netherlands
• 1849-05-28 Princess Marianne of the Netherlands and Albrecht of Prussia separate
• 1849-09-18 De Kempenae's Dutch government resigns
• 1849-11-01 Dutch government of Thorbecke forms
• 1850-07-12 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts establishment of Provincial States
• 1851-11-13 1st meeting of anti-revolutionary "Netherlands & Orange"
• 1852-01-01 Netherlands begins issuing postage stamps
• 1852-03-07 Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
• 1852-07-31 Hottest July in the Netherlands since at least 1783 with an average of 68.4°F (20.2°C)

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