1991 Twenty stolen paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands, Amsterdam are found in an abandoned car near the museum less than an hour later they were stolen.
1992 The Maastricht treaty is signed in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
2000 A large explosion in a fireworks storage site in Enschede, Netherlands kills 22 and injures 947.
2002 The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloevic begins at in The Hague, the Netherlands.
2004 Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh is murdered in Amsterdam, Netherlands by Mohammed Bouyeri. The Muslim assassin cites van Gogh's comments about Islam as the motivation for the killing.
2005 The Netherlands becomes that second country to reject the proposed constitution of the European Union.
