Dutch History Timeline (Part 4)

Events 601 - 800 of 1,791

• 1852-10-16 Dutch government recognize Catholics right to organize
• 1852-12-01 Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands
• 1853-03-04 Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands

• 1853-04-15 Dutch Protestant church petition King Willem III against re-establishment of Roman Catholic bishops in the Netherlands, he does so anyway
• 1853-04-17 Johan Rudolf Thorbecke's government in the Netherlands resigns
• 1853-04-19 Netherlands Van Hall government forms
• 1853-04-26 Dutch King William III disbands 2nd Chamber
• 1853-10-23 Maastricht-Aken railway in Netherlands opens
• 1854-01-31 Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute)
• 1854-06-29 Netherlands allows corporal punishment
• 1854-11-28 Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo
• 1855-07-20 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands
• 1856-10-20 Arnhem-Oberhausen railway in Netherlands opens
• 1858-03-18 Dutch Van der Brugghen government resigns
• 1858-08-18 Netherlands & Japan sign trade agreement
• 1858-12-16 Dutch government decides to vacate Schokland Island

• 1859-12-31 Dutch colony in Dutch Indies counts 4,800 slaves
• 1860-01-01 Slavery abolished in the Dutch East Indies for areas under direct rule
• 1860-01-20 Dutch troops conquer Watampone in Celebes
• 1860-02-16 Dutch Rochussen/Van Bosse government resigns
• 1861-02-01 Dike breaks in Gelderland, Netherlands
• 1861-02-23 Dutch Prime Minister Floris van Hall resigns
• 1862-02-10 Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms
• 1862-05-07 Much of Enschede, Netherlands, destroyed by fire
• 1863-06-30 Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves
• 1863-07-01 Slavery abolished in Dutch territories including Sint Maarten, Suriname and the Dutch Antilles, (now marked as Keti Koti Day in Suriname and the Netherlands)
• 1863-07-11 Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4
• 1863-10-01 Dutch Breda-Tilburg railway opens
• 1863-10-27 Dutch railway to Harlingen opens
• 1864-06-06 Battle of Lake Chicot, Arkansas (Dutch Bayou)
• 1864-06-25 Horse tramway in The Hague, Netherlands opens

• 1864-09-03 US, British, French & Dutch naval officer sails Straits of Simonoseki
• 1864-09-05 British, French & Dutch fleets attack Japan in Shimonoseki Straits
• 1865-11-01 Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens
• 1865-11-06 Maastricht-Venlo railway opens in Netherlands
• 1866-02-10 Dutch government of Frans van der Putte forms
• 1866-05-18 Netherlands government of Isaäc Dignus Fransen De Putte resigns
• 1866-05-28 Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt/Heemskerk forms
• 1866-06-01 General Dutch Typographer Union forms
• 1866-10-01 Dutch Eindhoven-Venlo railway opens
• 1867-07-19 Dutch Red Cross forms
• 1867-09-02 1st girls School opens in Haarlem, The Netherlands
• 1868-05-15 Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls
• 1869-07-01 Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed
• 1870-05-20 Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament abolishes capital punishment in The Netherlands
• 1870-09-08 Netherlands and Britain sign "Koelietraktaat" an agreement to allow Indian contract workers from Calcutta to work in sugar plantations in Suriname

• 1870-09-10 Dutch Jurist Cooperation forms
• 1870-09-15 Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18)
• 1871-10-01 General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht
• 1872-01-01 Moerdijk railway bridge over Hollands Diep, South Holland opens - then longest bridge in Europe
• 1873-02-27 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
• 1874-05-05 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
• 1874-07-01 Dutch 1st Chamber accepts law governing child labor in factories
• 1875-06-06 Netherlands joins the gold standard
• 1876-05-13 Amersfoort-Zutphen railway in the Netherlands opens
• 1876-11-01 King Willem III of the Netherlands opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden)
• 1877-01-30 Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces
• 1877-11-01 Dutch government of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns
• 1878-04-23 1st Dutch test drive of steam tram
• 1881-04-01 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens
• 1881-06-01 Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange

• 1881-11-02 Dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms
• 1882-01-17 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens her office
• 1883-04-23 John Heemskerk Abrahamszoon forms Dutch government
• 1883-07-01 ANWB forms in Utrecht, the Netherlands
• 1884-01-26 1st Dutch Wagner version of Elizabeth aria
• 1884-12-27 Netherlands recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
• 1885-05-01 Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands
• 1885-09-21 Dutch demonstrate for general voting right
• 1886-04-29 1st public Dutch electricity service begins
• 1886-09-01 The Netherlands New Code of Criminal Law is enforced
• 1886-12-16 Rift at Dutch Reformed Church over "Doleantie"
• 1887-02-16 Dutch writer Multatuli writes his last text
• 1887-09-01 Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established
• 1888-01-05 Dutch Heidemaatschappij (land reclamation) established
• 1888-03-25 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber

• 1888-04-16 Drentse & Friese peat cutters go on strike in the Netherlands
• 1888-09-01 Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens
• 1889-02-08 Flood ravages Dutch coast

• 1890-11-23 King William III of the Netherlands dies (b. 1817) without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to inherit
• 1891-05-15 Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland
• 1891-08-21 Dutch Mackay government resigns
• 1892-06-12 Netherlands Society for Currency & Coin collecting forms
• 1892-11-02 French poet Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands
• 1894-08-02 Dutch Society for Women's Suffrage receives royal charter
• 1894-08-25 -26] Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed
• 1894-08-26 Netherlands Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms
• 1894-11-19 Dutch troops occupy & plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok
• 1894-12-22 -23] Dutch coast hit by hurricane

• 1896-07-01 Harbor of Ymuiden opens in the Netherlands
• 1897-05-12 1800-1900 year old fossil of "girl of Yde" found in Drente, Netherlands

• 1897-06-15 Liberals/social-democrats win Dutch 2nd Parliamentary election
• 1897-07-27 Dutch government of Pierson/Goeman Borgesius resigns
• 1898-03-17 John Philip Holland achieves successful test run for the first modern submarine off Staten Island, submerging for 1 hour 40 minutes
• 1898-07-03 Dutch Automobile Club forms (KNAC)
• 1898-10-01 Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens
• 1900-01-01 Compulsory education in Netherlands goes into effect

• 1900-03-26 1st edition The (Free) People (Netherlands, probably Amsterdam)
• 1900-03-30 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law
• 1900-04-01 1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People"

• 1900-06-24 Dutch Social-Democratic Workers' party & Socialistenbond merge
• 1900-07-05 Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber
• 1900-09-15 A Boer delegation issues an appeal at the Hague, Netherlands, that the major powers intervene in the war in South Africa
• 1900-10-12 The first modern submarine is commissioned by the U.S. Navy as the USS Holland, named for its designer John Philip Holland

• 1901-02-03 Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra
• 1901-02-12 Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed
• 1901-03-17 Free-thinking Democratic League forms in Netherlands

• 1902-01-10 Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1902-01-13 Textile workers strike in Enschede, Netherlands (until 1st June)
• 1902-05-29 Dutch State Mine law forms
• 1902-08-01 Building begins on Dutch public housing
• 1903-01-06 Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam
• 1903-01-29 Dutch railroad workers strike
• 1903-02-18 Dutch government of Abraham Kuyper launches anti-strike laws
• 1903-04-06 In Holland, railroad and dock workers go out on strike, but the government passes anti-strike bills, calls out troops, and promptly ends the strike on the 13th April

• 1903-12-03 The Sultanate of Aceh's Panglima Polim surrenders to Dutch Army Captain Hendrikus Colijn at Atjeh
• 1904-01-01 Dutch East Indies government takes control of opium distribution

• 1904-06-14 Dutch troops occupy Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants
• 1904-07-19 Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber
• 1904-08-10 Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
• 1904-10-01 JB van Heutsz becomes governor general of Dutch East Indies
• 1904-10-01 Netherlands and Portugal lay down boundaries splitting the island of Timor in two
• 1905-02-25 The Nederlands Verbond van Vakverenigingenwas, a Dutch social-democratic trade union, forms
• 1905-05-22 Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School
• 1905-07-03 Kuyper government forms in Holland
• 1905-07-10 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court
• 1905-07-30 Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms
• 1905-08-17 Dutch government of Theo de Meester begins
• 1905-09-06 General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)
• 1905-09-14 Dutch AR-politician AWF Idenburg named governor of Suriname
• 1905-11-16 Dutch Russian Count Witte becomes Prime Minister of Russia
• 1906-01-01 Dutch law makes driver's license mandatory
• 1906-03-06 Heavy storm bursts dike, flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands
• 1906-03-12 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
• 1906-12-20 Venezuela (under vice-pres Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet
• 1907-02-11 De Master's Dutch government resigns
• 1907-02-21 SS Berlin sinks off the Hook of Holland (142 dead)
• 1907-08-17 Bishop forbids Christian membership of Dutch Textile Union
• 1907-10-19 1st printing of Dutch Tribune (Wijnkoop/Van Ravesteyn/Ceton)
• 1907-12-21 Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget
• 1908-02-11 Heemskerk's government begins in Holland
• 1908-02-29 Dutch scientists produce solid helium
• 1908-03-08 Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, NY
• 1908-04-23 Denmark, Germany, Britain, France, Netherlands & Sweden sign North Sea accord
• 1908-07-09 CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms
• 1908-10-01 1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague)
• 1908-11-07 Dutch capture Venezuelan navy
• 1909-01-02 1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50)
• 1909-02-12 Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)
• 1909-05-01 Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
• 1909-05-13 Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
• 1909-06-23 Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections
• 1909-09-20 The British Parliament passes the South Africa Act; it calls for union of Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony, and Transvaal; and both English and Dutch as official languages
• 1909-11-19 Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
• 1910-06-02 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
• 1910-07-20 Committee finds Former Dutch Prime Minister Abraham Kuyper innocent of corruption in the so-called decorations affairs
• 1910-07-29 JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory
• 1910-07-31 Pioneering Dutch aviator Clement van Maasdijk gives a flying demonstration

• 1911-01-07 Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
• 1911-07-28 96°F (35.6°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
• 1911-10-01 United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hr day
• 1911-10-06 Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
• 1911-12-10 Dutch lawyer Tobias Asser receives the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1912-02-07 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40)
• 1912-04-27 Relief laws in Netherlands replace those of 1854
• 1912-09-12 Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC)
• 1912-12-03 Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer

• 1913-05-14 Frans Hals museum opens in Haarlem, Netherlands
• 1913-06-02 Demonstrations for general voting right in Netherlands
• 1913-06-03 Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws
• 1913-06-05 Dutch Disability laws go into effect
• 1913-06-25 Dutch Parliamentary election (confess party looses majority)
• 1913-08-28 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, an international law administrative building housing the Permanent Court of Arbitration [1]
• 1913-08-29 Pieter Cort Van de Linden forms Dutch government
• 1913-09-16 Thousands of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
• 1913-12-10 Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
• 1914-01-01 Klaas ter Laan becomes The Netherlands 1st socialist mayor (Zaandam)
• 1914-01-26 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike
• 1914-02-14 High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
• 1914-03-01 Dutch Minister of War Hendrikus Colijn named director of British Petroleum
• 1914-05-23 Dutch socialist Henk Sneevliet co-founds The Indies Social Democratic Association (Communist Party) in Dutch Indonesia
• 1914-06-08 34.7°F (1.5°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
• 1914-08-05 Dutch Cort Van de Linden government issues silver bonds as money
• 1914-11-24 Dutch Overseas Trustmaatschappij (NOT) forms
• 1914-12-03 Dutch army opens fire on interned Belgian soldiers: 8 killed
• 1915-03-25 German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea
• 1915-04-14 Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
• 1915-06-08 92°F (33.3°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands

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