During its design stages the name Victorie Stadion was frequently used, referring to the Dutch War of Independence, the phrase " n Alkmaar begint de victorie " ( Victory begins in Alkmaar ) in particular.

During the Napoleonic wars the Kingdom of the Netherlands adopted the French code civil in 1809, however the Dutch colonies in the Cape of Good Hope and Sri Lanka, at the time called Ceylon, were seized by the British to prevent them being used as bases by the French Navy.

* 1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies

* 1607 25 April – During the Eighty Years ' War between the United Provinces and the King of Spain, a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish fleet anchored at the Bay of Gibraltar ( Battle of Gibraltar ).

During the 18th century, Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ( 1632 – 1723 ) discovered " animalcules " in the sperm of humans and other animals.

During that year, the clinic came under investigation by Dutch police after rumors about female staffmembers committing sexual offenses against convicts emerged.

During the 18th century, Dutch East India Company possessions were increasingly focused on the East Indies.

During the era of New Imperialism the territorial claims of the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) expanded into a fully fledged colony named the Dutch East Indies.

During these years overseas, Adams became fluent in French and Dutch and became familiar with German and other European languages.

During World War II, the city was renamed from Batavia to " Jakarta " ( short form of Jayakarta ) by the Indonesian nationalists after conquering the city from the Dutch in 1942 with the help of the Japanese forces.

During and after its golden age, the Dutch built up a commercial and colonial empire, which fell apart quickly after the Second World War ; the historical ties inherited from its colonial past still influence the foreign relations of the Netherlands.

During the first 80 years the French and Acadians were in Nova Scotia, there were nine significant battles as the English and Scottish ( later British ), Dutch and French fought for possession of the colony.

During the Dutch Revolt, trade came to a halt and even though Nijmegen became a part of the Republic of United Provinces in 1585, it remained a border town and had to endure multiple sieges.

During the Reformation the Catholic Church was persecuted and the Dutch dioceses north of the Rhine and Waal were suspended by the Holy See.

During the reign of the Rajasinghe II, Dutch explorers arrived in the island.

During the War of the Second Coalition ( 1799 – 1801 ), Britain occupied most of the French and Dutch colonies ( the Netherlands had been a satellite of France since 1796 ), but tropical diseases claimed the lives of over 40, 000 troops.

During Japan's initial conquest it captured of oil (~ 5. 5 × 10 < sup > 5 </ sup > tonnes ) left behind by retreating Allied forces, and by 1943 was able to get production in the Dutch East Indies up to, 76 percent of its 1940 output rate.

During his reign Charles commissioned 24 Royal Yachts on top of the two presented to him by Dutch states on his restoration.

* December 23 – During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear.

During the Dutch Golden Age, it was conceived essentially as the anthem of the House of Orange-Nassau and its supporters-which meant, in the politics of the time, the anthem of a specific political faction which was involved in a prolonged struggle with opposing factions ( which sometimes became violent, verging on civil war ).

During the colonization period, states of the region became important assets to the British, the Dutch and the French.

During the third state reform in 1988 and 1989, under Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, the Brussels-Capital Region was established with its own regional institutions, as well as Dutch and French institutions for community matters.

During this period, Charles V left for the Netherlands in 1520, making the future pope Regent of Spain, during which time he had to deal with the Revolt of the Comuneros.

* June 15 – Peasants ' Revolt: During further negotiations, Wat Tyler is murdered by the King's entourage.

During the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381 John of Gaunt was far from the centre of events, on the march of Scotland, but he was among those named by the rebels as a traitor to be beheaded as soon as he could be found.

During this period rabbis finalized the canonization of the Tanakh, and in 200 Judah haNasi edited together Tannaitic judgements and traditions into the Mishna, considered by the rabbis to be the definitive expression of the Oral Torah ( although some of the sages mentioned in the Mishnah are Pharisees who lived prior to the destruction of the Second Temple, or prior to the Bar Kozeba Revolt, most of the sages mentioned lived after the revolt ).

* Soldiers In Revolt: GI Resistance During The Vietnam War by David Cortright, ( 2005 ) ISBN 1-931859-27-2.

During the Patriot Revolt of 1787, militias from Zwolle, Kampen and Vollenhove conquered and pillaged the Ommerschans, stealing all its weaponry to help them in their paramilitary struggle against the regime.

During the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Pojoaque was abandoned, and was not resettled until about 1706.

During the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, Spanish refugees stopped in the pueblo of Socorro.

During the Peasants ' Revolt headed by Wat Tyler in 1381, the rioters, who blamed John of Gaunt for the introduction of the poll tax that had precipitated the revolt, systematically demolished the Savoy and everything in it.

During the Welsh Revolt in 1402 Rhys Gethin, General for Owain Glyndŵr, took Caerleon Castle together with those of Newport, Cardiff, Llandaff, Abergavenny, Caerphilly and Usk by force.

During World War I, Transjordan saw the majority of the fighting of the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule.

During the Arab Revolt of 1916 – 18, Abdullah commanded the Arab Eastern Army.

During the Albanian Revolt of 1912 Essad Pasha Toptani obliged himself to organize the uprising in Central Albania and Mirdita.

During the First World War he was converted to the Arab nationalist cause and fought in the Arab Revolt under Emir Faisal ibn Hussein of the Hijaz, who would later reign briefly as king of Syria before becoming king of Iraq.

During the Serbian Revolution ( 1804 – 1835 ) against the Ottoman Empire, about 200 Serbians were impaled in Belgrade in 1814, as punishment for a riot in the aftermath of Hadži Prodan's Revolt.

During the 1640s, Habsburg Spain was faced with a long series of disastrous conflicts: the revolt of the Netherlands ( 1568 – 1648 ), the Thirty Years War ( 1618 – 1648 ), the Revolt of Catalonia ( 1640 – 1659 ), and the secession of Portugal ( 1640 – 1668 ).

During the Arab Revolt in October 1938, the village was entirely destroyed by the British army for its alleged support of the rebels.

During the Peasants ' Revolt in 1381, the college was sacked by a mob of townspeople ( and apparently some students ) led by the mayor which, according to the college, carried away its charter to be burned and plate while gutting the rest of the college buildings.

During the Third Anglo-Dutch War, Henri fought the Spanish at the battle of the Messina Revolt, lost his right hand in a grenade explosion and, from that time on, wore a prosthetic hook covered by a glove, thus earning the nickname " Iron Hand ".

During his reign, he intervened twice successfully in Athenian affairs but kept Sparta out of the Ionian Revolt.

During the years of the novel, the First Revolt is described and preparations for the Second Revolt are discussed.

During the 1849 Constitutional Convention debate on the design of the seal, the bear was added to satisfy Major J. R. Snyder and the men of the Bear Flag Revolt, which freed California from Mexican rule in 1846.