Dutch History Timeline (Part 6)

Events 1001 - 1,200 of 1,791

• 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 holidaymakers in Black Forest

• 1939-08-30 General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army
• 1939-09-04 Dutch Second Chamber affirms the Netherlands is in a State of War with Germany
• 1939-09-04 Netherlands & Belgium declare neutrality
• 1939-10-16 Sugar rationing begins in the Netherlands
• 1939-11-18 Dutch KNSM passenger ship Simón Bolívar hits German mine, 86 die
• 1939-12-31 Dutch national debt hits ƒ4,218,553,180.99
• 1940-01-15 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch merchant ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
• 1940-01-21 Foreign correspondents in the Netherlands subjected to censorship
• 1940-01-30 Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race
• 1940-02-05 General Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander
• 1940-03-28 WWII: Two Dutch Fokker fighter plane crews shoot down British RAF bomber near Rotterdam
• 1940-04-19 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
• 1940-05-04 21 "not neutral" Nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands
• 1940-05-10 Dutch-Indies Governor Van Starkenborch proclaims end to state of siege
• 1940-05-10 WWII: Battle of France - Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), Germany invades Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg) and northern France, with Panzer tanks crossing through the Ardennes Forest
• 1940-05-12 German tanks conquer Moerdijk bridges, Netherlands
• 1940-05-13 British bomb factory at Breda, Netherlands
• 1940-05-13 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England
• 1940-05-14 Admiral Johannes Furstner, Royal Dutch Navy, departs to England
• 1940-05-14 Nazis bomb Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrenders to Germany
• 1940-05-15 Nazis capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)
• 1940-05-22 Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with Nazis
• 1940-05-24 Dutch army demobilizes
• 1940-05-24 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio
• 1940-05-29 Arthur Seyss-Inquart installed as Reich commissar of The Hague, Netherlands
• 1940-06-01 Coffee & tea rationed in Holland
• 1940-06-01 Nazi occupiers kick Jews out of Dutch air guard
• 1940-06-05 Governor of Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees
• 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

• 1940-06-21 German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State
• 1940-06-22 SS rounds up 31 German, Polish and Dutch Jews in Roermond, Netherlands
• 1940-06-23 RAF bombs Schiphol, Netherlands
• 1940-07-01 Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees
• 1940-07-02 Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory)
• 1940-07-03 ARP-leader and Dutch ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany
• 1940-07-03 German occupiers forbid using Dutch royal names
• 1940-07-19 Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald
• 1940-07-20 Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands

• 1940-07-24 1st illegal "Newsletter of Pieter It Hen" publishes in Netherlands
• 1940-07-24 Louis Einthoven, Linthorst Homan, and Jan de Quay found the Nederlandsche Unie (Dutch Union), an organization which seeks to cooperate with Nazi German occupiers, without abandoning Dutch sovereignty and culture
• 1940-07-31 Nazi Riechskommissar of the Netherlands Arthur Seyss-Inquart bans homosexuals
• 1940-08-10 Dutch Prince Bernhard Fund forms
• 1940-08-12 Netherlands starts rationing textiles
• 1940-08-14 Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
• 1940-08-23 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands dismisses Dutch Prime Minister Dirk Jan de Geer
• 1940-08-31 1st edition of illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
• 1940-08-31 German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap rationing
• 1940-09-03 Dutch government in exile of Gerbrandy forms in London
• 1940-09-04 Gerbrandy becomes premier of Dutch government in exile
• 1940-09-04 Nazi collaborator Anton Mussert puts the fate of Netherlands in Hitler's hands
• 1940-09-11 Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS

• 1940-09-23 Dutch Nazi collaborator Mussert's 1st meeting with Adolf Hitler
• 1940-09-28 Nazi occupiers present "New Dutch Culture" in German
• 1940-10-20 Cheese rationed in the Netherlands
• 1940-10-20 Greenhouse rationing begins in the Netherlands
• 1940-10-21 RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands
• 1940-11-01 Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM)
• 1940-11-04 Eggs & cake rationed in Netherlands
• 1940-11-05 Dutch submarine departs Dundee
• 1940-11-21 Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands
• 1940-11-25 Nazi Intelligence agency Sicherheitsdienst (SD) arrests Dutch resistance fighter Bernard Ijzerdraat, founder of De Geuzen
• 1940-11-28 Dutch law professor Rudolph Cleveringa arrested by Nazis
• 1941-01-01 Netherlands begins taxing wages
• 1941-01-31 Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem, Netherlands
• 1941-02-04 Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin
• 1941-02-05 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands
• 1941-02-06 Auke Adema wins 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19)
• 1941-02-08 Radio presenter and National Socialist Max Blokzijl begins Nazi propaganda on Dutch national radio (executed for it in 1946)
• 1941-02-10 Anti-Nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands
• 1941-02-11 Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments
• 1941-02-13 Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council
• 1941-02-20 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
• 1941-03-03 Netherlands NSB-leader Mussert visits Hermann Goering in Berlin
• 1941-03-12 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
• 1941-03-14 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
• 1941-04-02 German occupier disallows Dutch scouting association
• 1941-04-11 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands confiscate Jewish assets
• 1941-04-19 Milk rationed in Holland
• 1941-04-24 Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
• 1941-04-26 Potatoes rationed in Holland
• 1941-05-02 Nazi occupied Netherlands lays off Jewish journalists
• 1941-05-05 2 Fokker employees flee Nazi occupied Netherlands to England
• 1941-05-20 Former Dutch PM Hendrikus Colijn says Dutch Indies not ready for independence
• 1941-07-09 Dutch-American Physicist Abraham Pais is awarded his Ph.D. in Holland five days before a Nazi deadline banning Jews from receiving degrees
• 1941-07-14 Jam rationed in Holland
• 1941-07-26 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague
• 1941-07-30 German occupiers forbid the political parties SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU, and SGP in the Netherlands
• 1941-08-17 German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan
• 1941-11-14 Governr-General Wouters of Dutch Antilles refuses Jews refuge
• 1941-11-25 German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality)
• 1941-12-06 Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
• 1941-12-08 London: Dutch government-in-exile declares war on Japan
• 1941-12-11 Dutch government in London declares war on Italy
• 1941-12-15 Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland
• 1941-12-17 Dutch and Australian troops land on Portuguese Timor
• 1941-12-30 Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization
• 1942-01-03 American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
• 1942-01-10 Japan invades North Celebes, Dutch East Indies
• 1942-01-12 Dutch troops on Tarakan island off North Borneo surrender the island's oil fields to the Japanese
• 1942-01-18 Nazis arrests Dutch journalist Frans Goedhart who later escapes, and Wiardi Beckman, who dies at Dachau concentration camp
• 1942-01-19 Dutch Catholic priest and outspoken anti-Nazi Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers - later dies at Dachau concentration camp; posthumously canonized by Pope Francis, in 2022
• 1942-01-22 Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06)
• 1942-01-27 -19°F (-27.4°C) is the coldest day in the Netherlands since 1850
• 1942-01-30 Japanese troops land on the island Ambon, part of the Dutch East Indies (Allied forces surrender 3rd Feb)
• 1942-02-26 Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies
• 1942-02-28 1st weapon drop on Netherlands
• 1942-02-28 Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
• 1942-03-08 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies
• 1942-03-18 Illegal Free Netherlands announces boycott of theaters
• 1942-04-10 Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
• 1942-04-20 Nazi German occupiers forbid Dutch access to their beach
• 1942-04-29 Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands & Vichy-France
• 1942-05-03 Nazis execute 71 Dutch resistance fighters in reprisal at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany
• 1942-05-03 Nazis require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
• 1942-05-04 German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
• 1942-05-15 WWII: Nazi occupiers in Netherlands arrest 2,000 Dutch officers
• 1942-05-16 1st transport of British and Dutch prisoners to South Burma
• 1942-05-17 Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler
• 1942-06-09 German-Netherlands press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe

• 1942-07-10 Netherlands government in exile (London) recognizes Soviet Union
• 1942-07-13 German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
• 1942-07-15 Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps"
• 1942-07-16 Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp
• 1942-07-26 RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism
• 1942-07-30 German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands
• 1942-08-01 Nazi German occupiers demand listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers
• 1942-08-02 250 Dutch Catholic Jews are arrested and transported to Amersfoort camp
• 1942-08-04 German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed
• 1942-08-07 Dutch resistance bombs Rotterdam railway
• 1942-10-07 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing (Netherlands)

• 1942-12-06 Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth
• 1942-12-10 Adolf Hitler names Anton Mussert "leader of the Dutch people"
• 1942-12-11 Australian Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia
• 1942-12-13 Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader
• 1942-12-23 Allies air attack on Den Helder, Netherlands
• 1943-01-30 WWII: German under officers shot down in Haarlem Netherlands
• 1943-02-01 Mussert forms pro-Nazi shadow cabinet in Netherlands
• 1943-02-17 Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews
• 1943-02-18 1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"
• 1943-02-21 Dutch RC bishops protest against persecution of Jews
• 1943-03-02 1st transport from Westerbork Netherlands to Sobibor concentration camp
• 1943-03-09 Delft, Netherlands anti-Nazi resistance group Pahud de Mortanges wiped out
• 1943-03-11 Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
• 1943-03-16 Ships Elin K (Norway) and Zaanland (Netherlands) torpedoed by German U-boats and sink
• 1943-03-17 Physician Willem J. Kolff performs the world's first 'hemodialysis' using his artificial kidney machine, however the treatment is unsuccessful and the patient dies, in the Netherlands
• 1943-03-18 Ships James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei (Netherlands) torpedoed and sinks
• 1943-03-22 Dutch SS police chief Hans Albin Rauter threatens to kill half Jewish children
• 1943-03-22 Dutch work week extended to 54 hour
• 1943-03-25 97% of all Dutch physicians strike against Nazi registration
• 1943-03-27 WWII: Dutch resistance fighters burn and bomb the Amsterdam civil registry office in effort to destroy records and prevent the Nazis from identifying Jews and others marked for persecution; about 15% of records destroyed and 12 of the 19 known participants were tried and executed by the Nazi occupiers
• 1943-04-01 Jan Dieters, Dutch politician, resistance fighter, and a leading member of Communist Party of the Netherlands, is arrested by the Nazis
• 1943-04-06 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
• 1943-04-12 Dutch Catholic University Nijmegen closed
• 1943-04-16 40 NZ bombers attack Haarlem, Netherlands (85 killed)
• 1943-04-30 Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry
• 1943-05-01 German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes
• 1943-05-01 SS General Hanns Albin Rauter announces that all Jews will be 'removed' from the occupied Netherlands
• 1943-05-07 Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
• 1943-05-13 German occupiers attempt to confiscate all radios in the Netherlands
• 1943-05-22 RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander"
• 1943-06-23 Dutch artsens protest against Nazis
• 1943-06-25 Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reichskommissar in the Netherlands, orders mass arrests of Dutch physicians
• 1943-06-27 Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41,43m)
• 1943-06-27 Fanny Blankers-Koen runs Dutch record 200m (24.5)

• 1943-07-29 Nazis evacuate Hollandsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam
• 1943-08-08 Vegetables & fruit rationed in Holland
• 1943-08-10 Dutch submarine attacks Hertenbeest Island, NW Bali

• 1943-09-27 Dutch opposition newspaper "The Slogan" publishes KZ-Lower letter
• 1943-10-10 US bombers accidentally strike Enschede, Netherlands, causing 151 deaths
• 1943-11-03 P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North Holland
• 1943-11-12 Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
• 1944-02-22 World War II: US Army Air Forces accidentally bomb Dutch town of Nijmegen, around 800 civilians die
• 1944-02-28 Arrests of the ten-Boom family in Nazi occupied Netherlands (Haarlem) through a Dutch collaborator on charges of hiding Jews
• 1944-03-11 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
• 1944-04-20 Dutch Communist Party resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
• 1944-04-22 Allies land near Hollandia, New Guinea
• 1944-04-29 Raid by Dutch Resistance on the National Printing Office in The Hague to procure 10,000 Dutch identity cards.
• 1944-05-09 Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch, co-founder Naamloze Vennootschap (NV Group) is arrested
• 1944-05-12 German police arrest Dutch resistance member Gerrit van der Veen and later execute him
• 1944-05-17 Operation Straightline: Allies land in Dutch New Guinea
• 1944-06-02 Herzogenbusch concentration camp near Vught, Netherlands, is disbanded by Allied forces, one of two SS-run camps outside Germany
• 1944-06-08 Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
• 1944-08-09 12 workers of Dutch illegal paper "Trouw" executed at Camp Vught, Netherlands
• 1944-08-15 Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed
• 1944-08-16 Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London
• 1944-08-23 94.5°F (34.7°C) in De Bilt Netherlands & 101.5°F (38.6°C) in Warnsvelt

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