Apus was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35 cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.

In March 1969, during a Congress of International Federation of Airline Pilots ’ Associations in Amsterdam with the presence of representatives of civil pilots from 41 countries, a resolution was unanimously passed, which guaranteed the pilots the right to 12 or 24-hours

Ajax was founded in Amsterdam on March 18, 1900.

A legal case was filed against two of the Church's leaders, Hans Bogers ( one of the original founders of the Dutch Santo Daime community ) and Geraldine Fijneman ( the head of the Amsterdam Santo Daime community ).

One major bank building ( ING's Amsterdam headquarters ) in the Netherlands was constructed to be autonomous and artistic as well.

Amsterdam was built in a similar way, with buildings on wooden piles.

The Amsterdam Treaty was approved in the referendum of 28 May 1998.

Dorado was one of twelve constellations named by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 ( or 1598 ) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius.

When the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) was founded in 1602, some traders in Amsterdam did not agree with its monopolistic politics.

Amsterdam was not willing to help out, because it had too much interest in peace and healthy trade relations with Portugal.

This indifferent attitude of Amsterdam was the main cause of the slow, half-hearted policy, which would eventually lead to losing the colony.

The new WIC had a capital that was slightly more than 6 million guilders around 1679, which was largely supplied by the Amsterdam Chamber.

In an interview with Eurostar's Chief Executive Nicolas Petrovic in the Financial Times in May 2012, an intention for Eurostar to serve ten new destinations was expressed, including Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Cologne, Lyon, Marseille and Geneva, along with a likely second hub to be created in Brussels.

Alfred Henry ( Freddy ) Heineken ( November 4, 1923, Amsterdam, Netherlands – January 3, 2002, Noordwijk, Netherlands ) was a Dutch major stock holder and president of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam.

In Amsterdam graffiti was a major part of the punk scene.

Another way was used to keep this clandestine correspondence flowing: letters were sent in merchant ships between London and Amsterdam or Rotterdam, with outward bound letters often put on board below Gravesend, as this would be after the final customs clearance.

The first women's Olympic competition was primitive, for it involved only synchronized calisthenics, was held at the 1928 Games, in Amsterdam.

Rietveld designed the Zig-Zag Chair in 1934 and started the design of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which was finished after his death.

In 1951 Rietveld designed a retrospective exhibition about De Stijl which was held in Amsterdam, Venice and New York.

In subsequent years he was given many prestigious commissions, including the Dutch pavilion for the Venice Biennale ( 1953 ), the art academies in Amsterdam and Arnhem, and the press room for the UNESCO building in Paris.

When the art academy in Amsterdam became part of the higher professional education system in 1968 and was given the status of an Academy for Fine Arts and Design, the name was changed to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in honour of Rietveld.

By the mid 17th century, numerous small Dutch and Flemish distillers ( some 400 in Amsterdam alone by 1663 ) had popularized the re-distillation of malt spirit or wine with juniper, anise, caraway, coriander, etc., which were sold in pharmacies and used to treat such medical problems as kidney ailments, lumbago, stomach ailments, gallstones, and gout.

* Observationes et emendationes in Diogenem Laertium Paris 1663, ( reprint: London 1664, Amsterdam 1692 )

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historia ( 1611, 4 parts ); Beschryvinghe van Out Batavien ( Arnheim, 1612 ); Het oude Goutsche chronycxken van Hollandt, as editor, and printed at Amsterdam in 1663 ; and Principes Hollandiae Zelandiae et Frisiae ( Haarlem, 1650 ), translated ( 1678 ) into Dutch by Pieter Brugman.

A fragment of the Tractus Borysthenis Vulgo Dniepr at Niepr dicti map by Joannii Janssonii ( Amsterdam, 1663 )

With the exception of some short contributions to the works of others, the only one of Berab's numerous works ever published was his " Sheëlot u-Teshubot " ( Questions and Answers ), responsa, Venice, 1663 ; but the Amsterdam edition of the rabbinical Tanakh ( 1724 – 28 ) contains notes by Berab on Isaiah and Jeremiah.

Retiring from Venetian service he worked from 1661 till 1663 for an Amsterdam merchant house, having a supply contract with the Admiralty of Amsterdam, one of the five Dutch admiralties.

However, the city's trading status meant it suffered from an outbreak of bubonic plague from 1663 to 1666, supposed to have come from Algiers to Amsterdam.

According to Samuel Pepys, for a few weeks at the end of 1663 ships from Hamburg and Amsterdam were quarantined for thirty days.

In 1663, the painter was back in Amsterdam.

* 1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam.

* 1883 – The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

* Nobel Lectures, the Physiology or Medicine 1942 – 1962, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1964

* 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam ( later New York City ).

* 1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.

* 1944 – The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.

Bosschaert later worked in Amsterdam ( 1614 ), Bergen op Zoom ( 1615 – 1616 ), Utrecht ( 1616 – 1619 ), and Breda ( 1619 ).

It is the oldest north – south main thoroughfare in New York City, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement.

A Socio-Philo ( sopho ) logical Perspective ", Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, edited by Tope Omoniyi and Joshua A. Fishman, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 237 – 258.

* 1908 – Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor ( d. 1996 )

Following the December 2009 opening of HSL Zuid, a London – Amsterdam journey is estimated to take 4hrs 16mins.

* 1941 – February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.

* 1653 – New Amsterdam ( later renamed The City of New York ) is incorporated.

* The Nobel Prize Biography on Shaw, From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901 – 1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, ( 1969 ).

Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks ( 1569 – 1625 ), and perhaps also with David Vinckboons.

* 1665 – England installs a municipal government in New York City ( the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam ).

* 1810 – The French occupy Amsterdam.

* 1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the " Secret Annexe " above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

* 1945 – The General Dutch Youth League ( ANJV ) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Abbadie visited Holland to see his La Vérité through the press, and stayed more than three years in Amsterdam, 1720 – 23, during the preparation of Le Triomphe and other works.

Karel van het Reve ( 19 May 1921, Amsterdam – 4 March 1999, Amsterdam ) was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature.