He was visited by Leibniz, William III of Orange and his wife, the Amsterdam burgemeester ( the mayor ) Johan Huydecoper, the latter very interested in collecting and growing plants for the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam and all gazed at the tiny creatures.

Then mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, took his place as leader of the PvdA.

Hooft, was born in Amsterdam as the son of the then mayor, Cornelis Hooft.

In 1630, Michael Pauw, a burgemeester ( mayor ) of Amsterdam and a director of the Dutch West India Company, received a land grant as patroon on the condition that he would plant a colony of not fewer than fifty persons within four years on the west bank of what had been named the North River.

Since 2003, Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman has repeatedly stated that he favors legalization of prostitution in the city, perhaps turning East Fremont Street into a little Amsterdam.

This law was created under the second Kok cabinet by the current mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen.

Netherlands is listed by the UNODC as a primary country of destination for victims of human trafficking, and city authorities are very worried about Amsterdam's current situation: " We've realized this is no longer about small-scale entrepreneurs but that big crime organizations are involved here in trafficking women, drugs, killings and other criminal activities ," said Job Cohen, the former mayor of Amsterdam.

In September 2007, the city council of Amsterdam at the behest of mayor Job Cohen, concerned about trafficking and pimping in the area, forced the owner Charlie Geerts to close 51 prostitution windows, reducing the total number of windows in De Wallen by a third.

Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, mayor of Amsterdam and respected surgeon general, gathered all of his doctor and chemist friends together and they wrote the first pharmacopoeia of Amsterdam in 1636 Pharmacopoea Amstelredamensis.

* Pauline Krikke, former alderman in the Amsterdam city council, now mayor of Arnhem

Onno, meanwhile, has become deputy mayor for the Labour party in Amsterdam and begins his political career.

Saskia van Uylenburgh ( August 2, 1612, Leeuwarden, Friesland – June 14, 1642 in Amsterdam ) was the daughter of a Frisian mayor.

The scale model was unveiled on October 24, 2006, by Amsterdam mayor Job Cohen and COC chair Frank van Dalen.

Jan Bicker served as mayor of Amsterdam in 1653.

Vening Meinesz ' father, Sjoerd Anne Meinesz, was mayor, first of Rotterdam, then of Amsterdam.

When the Dutch government legalized prostitution in 2000, it was to protect the women by giving them work permits, but authorities now fear that this business is out of control: " We ’ ve realized this is no longer about small-scale entrepreneurs, but that big crime organizations are involved here in trafficking women, drugs, killings and other criminal activities ", said Job Cohen, the former mayor of Amsterdam.

As all Dutch municipalities, the municipality of Amsterdam is governed by a mayor, burgemeester, his aldermen, wethouders, and the municipal council, gemeenteraad.

Johannes ( van Waveren ) Hudde ( 23 April 1628, Amsterdam – 15 April 1704, Amsterdam ) was a burgomaster ( mayor ) of Amsterdam between 1672 – 1703, a mathematician and governor of the Dutch East India Company.

The mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, and his alderman for integration Ahmed Aboutaleb formulated a policy of " keeping things together " which involves social dialogue, tolerance and harsh measures against those who break the law.

Today van der Helst's most famous portrait is his half-length portrayal of Gerard Andriesz Bicker, the son of Andries Bicker, the mayor of Amsterdam, whom he also painted in 1642.

Mayor of Amsterdam Job Cohen also joined.

The law came into effect on 1 April 2001, and on that day four same-sex couples were married by the Mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, who became a registrar specifically to officiate at the weddings.

He won the contest ahead of Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen and Harrisburg Mayor Stephen R. Reed.

Job Cohen during annual Amsterdam Gay Pride in 2008

On 2 February 2002, Job Cohen performed the civil marriage of Prince Willem-Alexander and Máxima Zorreguieta in the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam.

It was in 1713, while Cohen was staying at Breslau ( where he acted as a rabbi until 1716 ), that Haham Tzvi Ashkenazi of Amsterdam informed him of its tenets.

* Cohen, S. ( 1990 ) " Intellectual Scepticism and Political Commitment: The Case of Radical Criminology ," Institute of Criminology, University of Amsterdam.

Concerned about organized crime, money laundering and human trafficking, Amsterdam officials under Mayor Cohen denied the license renewals of about 30 brothels in the Amsterdam red light district De Wallen in 2006 ; the brothel owners appealed.

" Cohen took pride in the fact that in Amsterdam no violence or arson occurred in response to the killing.

On 27 January 2006 Cohen announced he would be willing to serve a second term as mayor of Amsterdam.

On 12 July 2006 the municipality of Amsterdam almost unanimously ( Democrats 66 opposed, being in favour of an elected mayor ) supported Cohen to prolong his career as a mayor after 15 January 2007 when his first term ended.

In late 2007, Cohen moved to reduce prostitution in Amsterdam, following allegations that Hells Angels and other organized criminals had taken over the prostitution industry.

Wiener and his family fled to Amsterdam where he, together with Dr David Cohen of Amsterdam University, founded the Jewish Central Information Office ( JCIO ).

Frederik van Tuyll van Serooskerken first proposed Amsterdam as host city for the Summer Olympic Games in 1912, even before the Netherlands Olympic Committee was established.

These include Deutsche Bahn's proposed London-Frankfurt / Amsterdam service and the proposed " Transmanche Metro " service to Calais via local stations.

As soon as he reached Amsterdam he published anonymously the Prolegomena ad Novi Testamenti Graeci editionem, which he had proposed should accompany his Greek Testament, and which was republished by him, with additions, as part of his great work, 1751.

The peace party around Amsterdam objected to the clause in the proposed treaty with France that bound the Republic's hands by prohibiting the conclusion of a separate peace with Spain.

* White bicycle plan: Initiated by Luud Schimmelpenninck, the white bicycle plan proposed the closing of central Amsterdam to all motorised traffic, including motorbikes, with the intent to improve public transport frequency by more than 40 % and to save two millions guilders per year.

In 1904, Hillquit attended the International Socialist Congress at Amsterdam and was involved in moving the proposed Anti-Immigration Resolution, which opposed any legislation which forbade or hindered the immigration of foreign working men, some of which were forced by misery to migrate.

In 1995, the national government proposed the creation of a ' city province ', consisting of Amsterdam and neighbouring towns.

With the prospects for imminent world revolution on the wane, RILU head Solomon Lozovsky proposed an international conference bringing together leaderships of RILU, the Amsterdam International, and various unaffiliated unions — a gathering which was to echo the April 1922 meeting between the Second International, the Two-and-a-Half International, and the Comintern in Berlin " to work out parallel forms and methods of struggle against the offensive of capitalism.

Another high-speed link has been proposed by a consortium of companies between Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Amsterdam Zuid and the city of Almere.