Dutch History Timeline (Part 5)

Events 801 - 1,000 of 1,791

• 1915-06-27 Dutch SDAP demonstrates against conscription
• 1915-07-19 Dutch accidents at sea law enforced
• 1915-08-19 Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands

• 1915-11-06 1st military flight in Dutch East Indies (Tandjong Priok)
• 1916-01-14 Dutch Zuiderzee dyke cracks
• 1916-01-31 Dutch Girl Guides form
• 1916-03-15 Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea
• 1916-03-15 University of Ghent taken under Dutch control
• 1916-03-21 JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
• 1916-03-31 Dutch government ends all military engagements
• 1916-08-30 Boston's Dutch Leonard no-hits St Louis Browns, 4-0
• 1916-09-19 First landing at Schiphol Airport, Netherlands (Farman F-22 of Soesterberg)
• 1916-10-17 Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage

• 1917-02-10 Johanna Westerdijk installed as the Netherlands' 1st female professor
• 1917-02-22 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
• 1917-02-26 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands)
• 1917-05-23 Dutch 2nd Chamber approves 1908 conscription draft
• 1917-06-10 Limburg mine workers strike in the Netherlands
• 1917-08-18 Dutch Naval Air Force forms (MLD)

• 1917-12-23 3 British warships come close to Holland
• 1917-12-31 Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members
• 1918-02-21 Australians chase Turkish troop out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine
• 1918-03-09 Wageningen Agricultural College Netherlands opens
• 1918-05-18 Dutch Indian Volksraad installed in Batavia
• 1918-07-03 SDAP'er Suze Groenweg elected 1st woman in Dutch parliament
• 1918-09-04 Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier
• 1918-09-09 Dutch government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
• 1918-09-13 Train accident at Weesp Netherlands, kills 42
• 1918-09-20 Royal Dutch Blast furnace & Steel factory opens in Hague
• 1918-10-17 De Kooy airport in Netherlands opens

• 1918-11-11 Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution
• 1918-11-17 Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH
• 1919-03-17 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages
• 1919-06-12 Dutch 2nd Chamber accord for equal Christian-public education
• 1919-07-10 Dutch parliament approves women's right to vote
• 1919-07-11 Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day and no Sunday work

• 1919-09-16 Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant
• 1919-09-18 Dutch second chamber accepts female suffrage
• 1920-01-20 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws
• 1920-01-23 Dutch refuse to turn over ex-Emperor William II of Germany to allies
• 1920-02-19 Netherlands joins League of Nations
• 1920-05-17 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
• 1920-06-17 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law
• 1920-09-28 Dirk Fock appointed as governor-general of Dutch East Indies
• 1920-10-01 Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day
• 1920-10-12 Construction begins on Holland Tunnel connecting NJ & NYC
• 1920-12-29 The Netherlands and Venezuela recover diplomatic relations
• 1921-04-16 Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague, Netherlands
• 1921-11-29 Coldest day in November in Netherlands -14.0°C
• 1922-05-18 Dutch 2nd Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hrs)
• 1922-05-24 Record temperature in Netherlands for May recorded: 35.6°C (96°F)
• 1922-07-05 1st general election in Netherlands
• 1922-07-05 Women 1st vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win
• 1922-07-06 Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy
• 1922-08-01 Dutch editor and politician Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard
• 1922-09-18 2nd government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands
• 1922-10-27 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws

• 1922-11-05 Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent
• 1922-12-22 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent
• 1922-12-29 Dutch Constitution proclaimed
• 1922-12-29 Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage
• 1923-01-11 1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg & Kurt Schwitters)
• 1923-01-18 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies
• 1923-01-28 Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent
• 1923-02-28 Swedish King Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
• 1923-03-20 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch University in Ghent
• 1923-05-15 Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms
• 1923-06-28 Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry of the Netherlands state visit to London, England
• 1923-08-11 Dutch Premier de Geer resigns
• 1923-08-12 Dutch AR-leader Coair replaces De Geer as minister of finances
• 1923-09-06 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates her silver jubilee
• 1923-10-26 Dutch Government of Ruijs de Beerenbrouck resigns
• 1923-10-26 Dutch second Chamber rejects Fleet laws (50-49 vote)
• 1923-10-29 Textile strike against lower wages begins in Enschede, Netherlands
• 1923-11-10 German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany
• 1923-11-30 Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms
• 1924-01-15 3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
• 1924-01-22 Dutch Blast Furnace & Steel Factory opens
• 1924-02-01 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
• 1924-03-17 Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
• 1924-04-16 Child labor laws strengthened in Holland
• 1924-05-02 Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR
• 1924-06-21 NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms
• 1924-08-16 Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed
• 1924-10-01 1st Dutch airliner, the Fokker F.VII takes off from Amsterdam for Batavia (Java) [1]
• 1924-10-24 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine awarded to Dutchman Willem Einthoven "for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram"
• 1924-11-15 Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
• 1924-11-24 1st Dutch airliner, Fokker F.VII lands in Batavia (Java) after flying from Amsterdam
• 1924-11-28 Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves Dutch 2nd Chamber
• 1924-12-09 Netherlands & Hungary trade treaty signed
• 1924-12-24 1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands
• 1925-03-02 Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament
• 1925-04-03 Netherlands & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
• 1925-04-23 Pastor LH Perquin forms Union of Catholic Dutch Radio (KRO)
• 1925-04-28 Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard
• 1925-05-11 Communist Party of Holland splits
• 1925-07-01 SDAP wins 4 chairs in Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
• 1925-07-11 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands names Hendrikus Colijn of the Anti-Revolutionary Party as head of Dutch government
• 1925-08-04 1st Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn forms
• 1925-11-11 Night of Kersten - Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn's Dutch government falls by SGP-amendement
• 1925-11-24 1st radio-broadcast of Dutch KRO (Catholic Radio Broadcast)
• 1925-11-26 Netherlands & Germany sign trade agreement
• 1926-01-06 Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland
• 1926-03-04 De Geer government in Netherlands takes office
• 1926-03-17 Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
• 1926-03-24 The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands
• 1926-03-26 ACD de Graeff appointed governor general of Dutch East Indies
• 1926-04-12 Dutch Catholic Radio Broadcast (KRO) forms
• 1926-09-09 Train disaster at Wassenaar, Netherlands, 4 die
• 1926-10-09 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution
• 1927-03-24 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian and Netherlands Wielingen Treaty

• 1927-10-28 KLM airmail plane "Homing Pigeon" arrives back in Amsterdam after the first special round trip flight to the Dutch East Indies
• 1927-11-13 New York - New Jersey Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens
• 1928-01-30 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US
• 1928-12-01 Railroad museum opens in Utrecht, Netherlands
• 1929-01-08 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies
• 1929-02-12 Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30)
• 1929-04-01 Doorne's trailer factory in Eindhoven Netherlands opens
• 1929-06-09 Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free
• 1929-06-29 31.1°C (88°F) highest temperature on this day in De Bilt, Netherlands
• 1929-08-07 Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government
• 1929-12-29 Dutch colonial authorities arrest Sukarno and other key PNI leaders in Java
• 1930-12-24 Sukarno sentenced to four years in prison by Indonesian authorities in Bandung, Dutch East Indies
• 1931-03-16 Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Netherlands)
• 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
• 1932-04-23 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, the Netherlands, burns down
• 1932-05-28 Netherlands closes off the Zuiderzee - a new system of dams and dykes to reclaim land and provide flood protection. The country's largest hydraulic engineering project of the 20th century.
• 1932-07-14 Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
• 1932-07-18 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign Ouchy Convention, a customs 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 of non-catholic unions

• 1933-02-05 Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts
• 1933-02-05 Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch-German border, will later set fire to the German Reichstag
• 1933-02-10 Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship
• 1933-02-20 Curaçao Broadcast System, Curom, starts in the Dutch Caribbean with a speech by Princess Juliana
• 1933-02-26 Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell

• 1933-04-22 Dutch government forbids left wing radio address
• 1933-05-10 Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banished to Netherlands
• 1933-05-26 2nd emergency Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn forms
• 1933-08-01 Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrests Sukarno
• 1933-09-12 Dutch parliament accepts ban on uniforms
• 1933-09-25 Netherlands opens the Afsluitdijk, a dam and motorway that completes its damming of the Zuiderzee, an inlet of the North Sea - considered one of the Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World
• 1933-12-23 Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death for setting the German Reichstag on fire
• 1934-02-02 Dutch Roman Catholic Bishops warn against fascism and Nazism
• 1934-03-31 Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia)
• 1934-05-07 Princess Juliana of the Netherlands opens Juliana Canal between Maastricht and Maasbracht
• 1934-12-15 Dutch airplane the 'Snip' (Fokker F.XVIII) departs the Netherlands for the 1st flight to Paramaribo and Curacao, takes 55 hours 58 minutes
• 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)
• 1935-07-01 Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP, General Dutch Press Agency) forms in Amsterdam
• 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 Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn sworn in
• 1935-10-23 American mobsters Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot by organized crime hitmen at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey, what becomes known as "The Chophouse Massacre" to prevent them from killing the US Attorney prosecuting Schultz for tax evasion, what becomes known as "The Chophouse Massacre"
• 1935-10-27 SDAP and NVV launches "Plan for Work" in Utrect, Netherlands
• 1935-12-31 CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party
• 1936-02-22 Construction on Ypenburg Netherlands airport begins
• 1936-05-24 Dutch bishops forbid membership of Nazi party
• 1936-06-16 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge with the longest arch in Europe at the time

• 1936-06-19 Dutch Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn denies relation with German call-girl
• 1936-07-15 Dutch 2nd Chamber agree to temporarily increase defense budget
• 1936-09-08 Princess Juliana of The Netherlands & German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld become engaged
• 1936-09-27 Netherlands leave Gold Standard/devaluate guilder
• 1937-03-01 Governor Wouters innaugrates the radio station on the Dutch Antilles
• 1937-05-26 Dutch Rail NV at law forms
• 1937-10-05 Dutch Minister Carl Romme says unemployment is 25% "quarter of Romme"
• 1937-11-29 Dutch 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 court sentences writer Maurits Dekker to 50 days imprisonment for "offending a friendly head of state" - Adolf 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
• 1938-09-06 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates 40th anniversary
• 1938-09-28 Dutch Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn sends radio message "No war coming"
• 1938-11-14 Dutch DC3 crashes at Schiphol, 6 die
• 1938-11-21 Belgian king Leopold III, King of the Belgians begins 3-day visit to 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

• 1939-04-10 Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
• 1939-06-29 4th Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn falls
• 1939-07-25 5th and last Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendriku Colijn, forms
• 1939-07-28 5th Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendriku Colijn falls

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