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274 Germanic Peoples take advantage of the destroyed Roman armies of the Rhine
. They pillage and depopulate large areas of Gaul
, including Paris
. The Rhine border is lost for 20 years. Franks
live in the area of present southern Netherlands, northern Belgium
and Rhineland from now on.
885 Godfrith, the Sea King is killed in Lobith. The vikings lose control of most of the modern Netherlands.
1196 Creation of water boards in the region of present-day Netherlands, thereby being one of the oldest democratic entities still in existence in the world today.
1220 Dordrecht receives city rights, making it the oldest city in the present-day Netherlands
1421 St. Elizabeth flood. The coastal area near Dordrecht in the Netherlands was flooded due to extremely high tide of the North Sea
. 72 villages were drowned, killing about 10,000 people.
1535 Anabaptist
rebellion in some cities in the Netherlands, including a famous incident of seven men and five woman walking nude in the streets of Amsterdam
.
1554 Great fire in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
1560 The first tulip bulb was brought from Turkey
to the Netherlands.
1572 The Duke of Alva, Spanish commander in the Netherlands, lays siege to Haarlem.
1576 Eighty Years' War
: Pacification of Ghent - The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose pillaging Spanish
mutinees.
1578 Battle of Gembloers: Spanish
forces under Don John of Austria and Alexander Farnese defeat the Dutch
. Don John begins to recover control of the French
-speaking Southern Netherlands.
1578 Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, succeeds Don John as Spanish
Governor-General of the Netherlands.
1581 Robert Browne and his Brownist companions were obliged to leave England
and went to Middelburg, in the Netherlands. See Congregational church
1581 The Northern Netherlands proclaim their independence from Spain in the Oath of Abjuration. They abjure loyalty to Philip II of Spain
as their sovereign and become a Republi
1585 The Netherlands adopts the Gregorian calendar
1607 Battle of Gibraltar: Dutch
fleet destroys anchored Spanish
fleet.
1608 First cheques come to use in Netherlands.
1608 Dutch lens maker Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first telescope
in the Dutch
parliament
.
1609 The Netherlands and Spain
agree to the Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War
1609 Spain
recognizes Dutch
independence
1619 Dutch
statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
is executed in The Hague
after having been accused of treason
.
1622 May 13 — the ''Eendracht'', Dutch
VOC
sailing ship and the second recorded European ship to make landfall on Australia
n soil, is wrecked off the western coast of Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies.
1627 A Dutch
ship makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia
.
1637 Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces
(now the Netherlands) by government order
1638 Willem Kieft, Dutch
merchant, appointed Director of New Amsterdam
by the Dutch West India Company.
1641 The Dutch
found a trading colony on Dejima, near Nagasaki
, Japan
.
1642 The Dutch
drive Spain
from Taiwan
.
1648 The Dutch
and the Spanish
sign the Treaty of Munster, ending the Eighty Years' War
. The Spanish Empire
recognizes the Dutch Republic
of United Netherlands as a sovereign state, (governed by the House of Orange-Nassau and the Estates General) which was before a province of the Spanish Empire
.
1648 France
and Netherlands agree to divide the island of Sint Maarten/Saint Martin.
1652 Dutch
sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company
at the Cape of Good Hope
, and founded Cape Town
.
1654 Carel Fabritius, the most promising student of Rembrandt, dies aged 32 in an explosion at the arsenal at Delft. The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100.
1655 New Sweden (Delaware) attacked and captured by Dutch
forces.
1658 Portuguese
traders are expelled from Ceylon by Dutch
invaders.
1664 Dutch
Governor
Peter Stuyvesant
surrenders New Amsterdam
to an English
naval squadron commanded by Colonel
Richard Nicolls.
1665 London
has its last severe outbreak of the Bubonic plague
, possibly introduced by Dutch
prisoners of war. Two-thirds of Londoners leave the city, but over 68,000 die. (See the Great Plague of London.)
1665 England
installs a municipal government in New York City
. This was the former Dutch
settlement of New Amsterdam
.
1666 English
fleet beats Dutch
under Michiel de Ruyter
.
1672 French
forces under king Louis XIV
cross the Rhine
to Netherlands
1674 England
and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam
to England, which renamed it New York
1674 Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster of 19 February, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England
.
1688 Hearing that William has landed in England
, Louis XIV
declares war on the Netherlands. Perhaps revealingly, he does not attack the Netherlands but instead strikes at the heart of the Holy Roman Empire
with about 100,000 soldiers.
1688 Hearing that William has landed in England
, Louis XIV
declares war on the Netherlands. Perhaps revealingly, he does not attack the Netherlands but instead strikes at the heart of the Holy Roman Empire
with about 100,000 soldiers.
1709 Battle of Malplaquet - Great Britain
, Netherlands and Austria
defeat France
1717 January 4 — The Netherlands, Britain
& France
sign Triple Alliance
1717 December 24/25 A disastrous flood hits the North Sea
coast between the Netherlands and Danmark. Thousands die or lose their houses.
1771 The Dutch
merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland
. Captain Raymund Lourens and his crew escape unharmed.
1787 Orangist troops attack Vreeswijk, Harmelen and Maarssen. Civil war starts in the Netherlands.
1787 Prussian
troops enter the Netherlands. More than 100,000 (out of a population of 2,000,000) patriots must go into exile for eight years.
1793 France
declares war on Great Britain
, the Netherlands (see French Revolutionary Wars
)
1795 French
occupy Utrecht
, Netherlands.
1796 The British
seize Ceylon from the Dutch
.
1796 First Dutch
(and general) elections for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. The next Dutch
general elections were in 1917.
1796 First Dutch
(and general) elections for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. The next Dutch
general elections were in 1917.
1799 British
and Russian
expedition to the Batavian Republic
(now the Netherlands).
1801 Coup d'état
in the Netherlands (Batavian Republic
).
1803 The United Kingdom
redeclares war on France
after France refused to withdraw from Dutch
territory.
1806 Dutch
in Cape Town
surrender to the British
.
1813 An independent government is restored in the Netherlands.
1814 Guyana
transferred from Netherlands to Britain
; it is renamed "British Guiana".
1815 Netherlands, Foundation of the first Dutch student association, the Groninger Studenten Corps, Vindicat atque Polit. The first rector of the senate was B.J. Winters.
1824 The Dutch
sign the Masang Agreement temporarily ending hostilities in the Padri War
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