Dutch History Timeline (Part 7)

Events 1201 - 1,400 of 1,791

• 1944-08-28 US air raid on Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies

• 1944-09-03 Prince Bernhard appointed supreme commander of Netherlands Domestic Armed Forces
• 1944-09-05 "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany
• 1944-09-05 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen, Netherlands
• 1944-09-05 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign customs Unity treaty
• 1944-09-05 Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard
• 1944-09-07 Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12)
• 1944-09-09 Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal, Netherlands
• 1944-09-09 US 113th cavalry passes Belgian-Dutch borders
• 1944-09-12 Noorbeek becomes the first liberated community in the Netherlands during World War II
• 1944-09-17 Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers
• 1944-09-17 Operation Market Garden: In the largest airborne operation of WWII, Allied paratroopers land in the Netherlands in a failed attempt to capture the Arnhem bridge over the Rhine
• 1944-09-18 WWII: Eindhoven, Netherlands freed by American and British troops (Lightly Day)
• 1944-09-21 Operation Market Garden: Last British paratroopers at Arnhem Bridge surrender after several days of fighting
• 1944-09-25 Operation Market Garden ends in Allied failure as the last British and Polish paratroopers are evacuated from Oosterbeek, near the town of Arnhem
• 1944-09-26 World War II: Battle of Arnhem ends in Allied failure as German forces link up on both sides of the Lower Rhine river and mop up last British resistance
• 1944-09-30 -Oct 1] Failed attack on German officers near Putten, Netherlands
• 1944-09-30 Dutch General Mine Workers Union (ABWM) forms
• 1944-10-06 Royal Dutch Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks German submarine U168 in the Java Sea
• 1944-10-19 Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg, Netherlands
• 1944-10-29 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda, Netherlands
• 1944-10-30 Tholen Island (Netherlands) freed during WWII
• 1944-11-01 World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands
• 1944-11-03 Allied commandos land at Westkapelle, on the Dutch island of Walcheren
• 1944-11-04 RAF bombs Dinteloord (Netherlands), 54 killed
• 1944-11-08 Last German troops at Walcheren Island, Netherlands surrender
• 1944-11-20 Dutch Prince Bernhard establishes staff in Breda, Netherlands
• 1944-11-28 In reprisal 40 Dutch men are executed by Nazis
• 1944-12-01 Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands
• 1944-12-10 9 Dutch citizens hanged by Nazis
• 1944-12-14 Beginning of Liese-Aktion: Germany tries to recruit Dutch men for the Germany labor force
• 1944-12-14 German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland
• 1944-12-23 Beginning of 'the harsh winter', contributes to the famine that develops in the Netherlands
• 1944-12-28 Dutch Resistance fighter Corrie ten Boom is accidentally released from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, living to speak and educate of her experience in "The Hiding Place"
• 1945-01-23 Dutch Premier Pieter Gerbrandy, exiled in London, tenders his resignation
• 1945-01-27 Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands)
• 1945-01-27 Wally van Hall, Dutch banker and resistance leader, arrested
• 1945-01-28 Dutch airplanes dump pamphlets on Java
• 1945-01-28 Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands
• 1945-02-13 Gerbrandy Dutch government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy
• 1945-02-21 Dutch Archbishop of Utrecht Johannes de Jong calls to the Allies for help with war casualties following the Nazi occupation of Netherlands
• 1945-02-23 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London
• 1945-03-03 Roermond & Venlo, Netherlands, liberated
• 1945-03-05 Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands
• 1945-03-06 Dutch resistance fighters kill two, and injure one Nazi officer in an attempt to hijack food supplies at de Woeste Hoeve, Netherlands
• 1945-03-07 Attack on car of Netherlands SS Police Chief Hans Rauter by Dutch resistance, Rauter injured
• 1945-03-08 Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (SD) intelligence agency executes 116 prisoners, and one reluctant police official, at de Woeste Hoeve, Netherlands in response to raid by resistance forces two days earlier

• 1945-03-13 Nazi Sicherheitsdienst arrests Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
• 1945-03-21 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police
• 1945-04-01 World War II: Canadian troops free the Dutch cities of Doetinchem, Enschede, Borculo and Eibergen
• 1945-04-03 World War II: Dutch city of Hengelo freed from Nazi control by the Canadian Army
• 1945-04-05 World War II: Dutch city of Almelo is freed by the Second Canadian Corps
• 1945-04-06 World War II: Dutch city of Coevorden freed from German occupation by Canadian forces
• 1945-04-08 Dutch Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi general Christiansen flees Netherlands
• 1945-04-10 General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"
• 1945-04-12 Canadian troops liberate Nazi concentration camp Westerbork, Netherlands
• 1945-04-13 Canadian soldier Léo Major single-handedly liberates Dutch town of Zwolle by fooling Germans into thinking a raid had begun
• 1945-04-13 WWII: Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen, Netherlands, from Nazis
• 1945-04-16 World War II: Dutch town of Arnhem, site of failed Operation Market Garden, is freed by British and Canadian forces
• 1945-04-16 World War II: German troops in Groningen, Netherlands surrender to Canadian and Dutch allied forces
• 1945-04-17 German occupiers flood Wieringermeer, Netherlands
• 1945-04-29 First food drop by RAF above Nazi-occupied Holland (Operation Manna)
• 1945-05-01 Australian and Dutch troops land on Tarakan, off the coast of Borneo
• 1945-05-03 Louis de Visser, Dutch Communist politician (CPN), killed in Allied bombing of German prison ship SS Cap Arcona at 66

• 1945-05-05 Netherlands and Denmark liberated from Nazi control
• 1945-05-05 Premier Gerbrandy on Radio Orange tells Dutch they are liberated
• 1945-05-06 General Johannes Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
• 1945-05-07 Princess Irene Brigade moves into The Hague, Netherlands
• 1945-05-07 World War II: British troops enter Utrecht, Netherlands
• 1945-05-09 Dutch radio presenter and Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested for broadcasting Nazi propaganda during Nazi occupation
• 1945-06-15 Dutch political party ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam
• 1945-06-24 Schermerhorn government forms in the Netherlands
• 1945-07-19 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue

• 1945-09-11 Physician Willem J. Kolff performs the first successful kidney dialysis using his artificial kidney machine in the Netherlands
• 1945-09-26 All old Dutch banknotes declared invalid
• 1945-10-07 Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes
• 1945-11-20 Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch parliament in Hague
• 1945-11-27 Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina
• 1945-11-27 Trial against Dutch Fascist NSB leader Anton Mussert begins (later convicted and executed by firing squad)
• 1945-12-05 Dutch Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of radio presenter Max Blokzijl for broadcasting Nazi propaganda
• 1945-12-12 Special Court of justice convicts Dutch Nazi leader Mussert to death
• 1946-02-09 Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms
• 1946-03-02 Dutch troops land on East Bali
• 1946-03-09 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
• 1946-04-03 Netherlands-German postal relations resume
• 1946-04-16 Dutch Special Court of Justice sentences Frederik Müller, Socialist mayor of Rotterdam, to 10 years in jail for his wartime support of Germany
• 1946-04-18 International Court of Justice opens at The Hague Netherlands
• 1946-05-17 KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections
• 1946-05-19 Dutch Cooperation for Sexual Reform (NVSH) forms in Amsterdam
• 1946-05-29 KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands
• 1946-06-05 Dutch comic strip "Eric de Noorman" by Hans G. Kresse is launched
• 1946-06-26 Dutch Nazi collaborator Arnold Meijer sentenced to 5 years
• 1946-07-02 Dutch Beel government forms
• 1946-07-03 1st Dutch government of Louis Beel forms
• 1946-10-24 Netherlands & Indonesia sign cease fire
• 1946-11-14 Dutch Dakota flight to Schiphol crashes, kills 11
• 1946-11-28 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert sentenced to death
• 1947-01-17 Ammunition factory explodes in Muiden, Netherlands, 16 die
• 1947-02-01 NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established
• 1947-02-08 Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51)
• 1947-02-10 Netherlands Radio Union forms
• 1947-02-17 Dutch RC bishops publish manifest against "godless communism"
• 1947-04-15 Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio
• 1947-06-25 1st version of Anne Frank's diary "Het Achterhuis" published in The Netherlands
• 1947-06-27 98°F (36.8°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands
• 1947-07-20 1st political action of Netherlands Army on Java and Sumatra
• 1947-08-05 Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to UN pressure

• 1947-10-21 Dutch Dakota explodes near Copenhagen, 16 die
• 1947-10-29 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands form Benelux Union
• 1948-01-17 Netherlands & Indonesia agree to a cease-fire
• 1948-01-24 Dutch Liberal Party forms - People's party for Freedom & Democracy (VVD)
• 1948-05-04 The Hague Court of Justice convicts Nazi SS officer in the Netherlands Hans Rauter of Crimes against Humanity (executed 24 March 1949)
• 1948-05-12 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates due to ill health
• 1948-06-07 KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
• 1948-08-06 Dutch super athlete Fanny Blankers-Koen wins London Olympics 200m in 24.4s to become the first women to claim 3 individual track & field gold at a Games, having already won the 100m and 80m hurdles
• 1948-08-06 Willem Drees forms Socialist government (KVP/Social Democratics/CHU/Liberal) in the Netherlands
• 1948-08-07 1st Dutch government of Beel resigns
• 1948-08-12 Court of justice sentences General Friedrich Christiansen, commander of the German Wehrmacht in the Netherlands, to 12 years imprisonment
• 1948-08-31 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates her golden jubilee
• 1948-09-04 Queen Wilhelmina abdicates the Dutch throne in favour of her daughter Juliana because of illness, after 58 years, longest of any Dutch monarch

• 1948-09-18 Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin)
• 1948-10-21 Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder)
• 1948-12-28 Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands
• 1948-12-31 Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike
• 1949-01-12 Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter
• 1949-01-28 UN Security council convicts Dutch aggression in Indonesia
• 1949-01-29 Great Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland recognize Israel
• 1949-02-14 Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
• 1949-03-01 Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch
• 1949-03-24 SS police chief in the Netherlands Hanns Albin Rauter's request for a pardon denied, executed by firing squad
• 1949-04-23 Netherlands annexes Elten & Tudderen
• 1949-06-23 Dutch Constellation aircraft plunges into the sea near Bari, 33 die
• 1949-06-24 A. M. de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog, arrested in Scheveningen, Netherlands
• 1949-06-30 Dutch troops evacuate Jakarta
• 1949-07-12 Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die
• 1949-09-20 Dutch Guilder devalued 30.3%
• 1949-10-31 Dutch Nazi Henri 'Hakkie' Holdert, director of Amsterdam paper De Telegraaf and member of the SS, sentenced to 12 years imprisonment
• 1949-11-02 Netherlands ends rationing programs started during WWII for distribution of textiles, meat, and cheese
• 1949-11-02 The Netherlands recognizes its former colony Indonesia as a sovereign state at conclusion of the Round Table Conference at the Hague, Netherlands

• 1949-12-09 House of Representatives of The Netherlands accepts Indonesian sovereignty
• 1949-12-21 Dutch 1st Chamber accept sovereignty of Indonesia
• 1949-12-27 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands grants independence to Indonesia
• 1950-01-01 Dutch government raises all wages 5%, minimally fl. 5 per week
• 1950-01-16 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands recognize Israel
• 1950-01-20 Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands
• 1950-01-23 Rebel army of Dutch military officer Raymond Westerling occupies Bandung, Java
• 1950-03-27 Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
• 1950-04-14 Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands
• 1950-05-02 Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration
• 1950-05-02 Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not People's Republic of China
• 1950-05-10 1st Netherlands-US telex sent
• 1950-05-22 Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize
• 1950-06-15 Dutch police seize condoms
• 1950-06-20 Dutch Air Force base Tjililitan given to Indonesia
• 1950-07-26 KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites
• 1950-08-17 Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
• 1950-10-25 Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life
• 1950-10-26 630 Dutch volunteers depart for Korea
• 1951-01-13 German general Christian Hansen freed early from Dutch prison
• 1951-01-18 1st use of lie detector in the Netherlands
• 1951-01-24 Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns
• 1951-02-18 Netherlands Radio School forms
• 1951-03-13 2nd Dutch government of Willem Drees forms

• 1951-04-18 Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms
• 1951-04-26 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands opens Brielsche Mausoleum
• 1951-04-29 China seizes the assets of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, a joint venture between the Shell and Royal Dutch oil companies in retaliation for the Hong Kong Government's requisitioning of the tanker Yung Hao
• 1951-05-01 Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
• 1951-05-31 Netherlands & South Africa sign cultural accord
• 1951-07-26 Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
• 1951-08-05 Uprising by Moluccan soldiers from Indonesia at Ambonezen Camp, Netherlands
• 1951-08-09 Dutch Korea volunteers win US Collective Unit Citation
• 1951-08-26 Dutch professor Jacob Jongbloed demonstrates an artificial heart in Paris
• 1951-11-25 Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden
• 1951-12-17 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
• 1951-12-19 Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands
• 1952-01-14 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends
• 1952-01-16 New Dutch bible translation finished
• 1952-01-31 Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1½ centuries
• 1952-02-26 Netherlands-Indonesian Unity conference
• 1952-03-22 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
• 1952-04-03 Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress
• 1952-05-21 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
• 1952-05-29 2nd Round Conference between Dutch Antilles & Suriname ends
• 1952-06-25 Dutch General Election: social democratic party wins elections 30% to help form a four-party coalition
• 1952-09-01 Willem Drees forms his 3rd Dutch government
• 1952-09-24 Dutch Minister of Justice Leendert Donker commutes Nazi war criminal Willy Lages execution sentence to life in prison; Lages is released in 1966 due to failing health, he lives for 5 more years
• 1952-10-21 Dutch government refuses New Guinea (West-Irian)
• 1952-10-25 First Dutch edition of children's magazine "Donald Duck"
• 1952-12-19 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands unveils statue "Docker" ("Dokwerker"), memorializing the February Strike of 1941 over the arrest of 450 Jews for the killing of a Nazi sympathizer; designed by Mari Andriessen, it was relocated in 1970 from Amsterdam's Waterlooplein Market to Jonas Daniel Meijerplein (Square)
• 1953-01-27 Netherlands end Marshall aid
• 1953-01-31 Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands, drowning 1,835
• 1953-02-01 Dr A de Waal appointed as Netherlands' first female assistant secretary of state

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