( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

* 1572 – In the Eighty Years ' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.

Plancius called the constellation " Paradysvogel Apis Indica "; the first word is Dutch for ' bird of paradise ', but the others are Latin for " Indian Bee "; " apis " ( Latin for " bee ") is presumably an error for " avis " or " bird ".

The Aster CT-80, an early home / personal computer developed by the small Dutch company MCP ( later renamed to Aster Computers ), was sold in its first incarnation as a kit for hobbyists.

It was the first commercially available Dutch personal / home computer.

Due to mutual agreements with foreign clubs, the youth academy has also signed foreign players as teenagers before making first team debuts, such as Belgian defensive trio Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Thomas Vermaelen ( now with Arsenal ) and winger Tom de Mul ( now with Sevilla ), all of whom are full internationals as well as Dutch youth international Javier Martina and Vurnon Anita of the Netherlands Antilles.

However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

On 5 December 2009 AZ announced that Koeman no longer was in charge of AZ, after losing 7 of the first 16 games in the Dutch competition.

This traditional attribution of the Creed to Athanasius was first called into question in 1642 by Dutch Protestant theologian G. J.

Abacá was first cultivated on a large scale in Sumatra in 1925 under the Dutch, who had observed its cultivation in the Philippines for cordage since the ninteenth century, followed up by plantings in Central America in 1929 sponsored by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Cuyp was one of the first Dutch painters to appreciate this new leap forward in style and while his own Both-inspired phase was quite short ( limited to the mid 1640s ) he did, more than any other contemporary Dutch artist, maximize the full chromatic scale for sunsets and sunrises.

That same year Dutch rapper Extince released his first record: Rap Around The Clock.

Another 1980s group was the Osdorp Posse, who first started to record tracks in Dutch.

In Deventer they found the first followers and the first Dutch language hip hop scene.

Maasstraat became famous as the first group combining reggae with Dutch lyrics, inspiring acts like Postmen, for example.

With two of his singles Spraakwater and Kaal of Kammen being major hits in the mid-1990s, Extince was the first Dutch rapper making the MegaCharts.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

The French cavalry exerted themselves once more against the first line – Lumley's English and Scots on the Allied left, and Hompesch's Dutch and German squadrons on the Allied right.

The Dutch explorer and entrepreneur David de Vries gives the first mention of it in his journal for the year 1642 (" the Wickquasgeck Road over which the Indians passed daily ").

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

Metro ( Belgian newspaper ) ( Concentra ) is a major daily free newspaper in a Dutch and French edition.

* 1970 Archaeology in the Holy Land, third edition, 1970 ( also published in Dutch, Danish, German, Spanish and Swedish editions ).

The best critical edition, which includes the Dutch translation of 1684, is edited by Giovanni Crapulli ( The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966 ).

** Table of contents, bibliography of On the Origin of Species – links to text and images of all six British editions of The Origin of Species, the 6th edition with additions and corrections ( final text ), the first American edition, and translations into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish.

The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, 1477-1806 ( 1995 ) contain a great deal on Belgium ; complete online edition ; also excerpt and text search

( translated by Len Seymour from the 1974 Dutch edition ).

Mohr published his Euclides Danicus simultaneously in a Danish and a Dutch edition ( each with a long sub-title in the respective language ).

The comics are almost always hardcover in the French edition and softcover in the Dutch edition, colored all the way through, and, when compared to American comic books and trade paperbacks, rather large ( roughly A4 standard ).

Eight editions in Dutch and Flemish are known ; and the story soon passed to France, the first French edition appearing in Bordeaux, 1609, and to England, where it appeared in the form of a parody in 1625.

In November 2009, a Frisian edition of the national Bosatlas, De Bosatlas van Fryslân was published by the Dutch publisher Noordhoff in Groningen, almost 500 pages and 4 kg.

Due to the fact that at the time the Baltic, Belgian / Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish seasons were all traveling together in order to conserve and pool their resources, there is no way to determine which production team came up with the idea of the twist ( though it's unlikely to be the Baltic's or Norway's as neither edition has ever used this twist ).

1854 the first edition of the Atlas antiquus, which has obtained very wide recognition, being issued in English, French, Russian, Dutch and Italian.

* Dutch edition

She also received much firsthand information about Dutch life from her immigrant Dutch neighbors, the Scharffs, and Dodge noted in her preface to the 1875 edition of the book that the story of Hans Brinker's father was " founded strictly upon fact ".

* The 1855 edition of Beeton's Boy's Own Magazine: " The Little Dutch Hero "

Three Latin editions of this ( besides a Dutch, a French and a German edition ) appeared before the end of 1572 ; twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius ' death in 1598 ; and several others were published subsequently, for the atlas continued to be in demand until about 1612.

Three Latin editions of this ( besides a Dutch language | Dutch, a French language | French and a German language | German edition ) appeared before the end of 1572 ; twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius ' death in 1598 ; and several others were published subsequently, for the atlas continued to be in demand till about 1612.

Picture from an old Dutch edition of Munchhausen ( R. E.

A Dutch edition also exists which is published monthly.

* Le Maire reports, on line thanks to: Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld ( original edition from 1621, in Dutch, with 25 original maps from all over the world, 256 pages ).

This Dutch edition, in fact the second, superseded the suppressed French first edition, but differed from it in a number of ways.