* 1795 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee ( present-day Sri Lanka ) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.

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.

* First Battle of Guararapes ( 1648 ): Decisive Brazilian victory that helped end Dutch occupation.

First published posthumously in Dutch translation in 1684 and in the original Latin at Amsterdam in 1701 ( R. Des-Cartes Opuscula Posthuma Physica et Mathematica ).

The rise of Napoleon saw the end of the First French Republic, and his eventual defeat allowed the victorious monarchies to put an end to many of the oldest republics on the continent, including Venice, Genoa, and the Dutch.

First printed in Amsterdam in 1650 it was translated to French in 1651, German in 1676, English and Dutch in 1729 and Polish in 1963.

* May 29 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The opening battle is fought off Dover, between Lt .- Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into 2 squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.

* The First Coalition against France is formed during the year by Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire, Naples and Tuscany.

The number of departments, initially 83, was increased to 130 by 1809 with the territorial gains of the Republic and of the First French Empire ( see Provinces of the Netherlands for the annexed Dutch departments ).

* June 12 – 13 – First Anglo-Dutch War – Battle of the Gabbard: The English navy defeats the Dutch fleet, which loses 17 ships.

* August 8 – 10 – Battle of Scheveningen: The final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War is fought, between the fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces off the Texel ; the English navy gains a tactical victory over the Dutch fleet.

* June 7 – First Battle of Schooneveld: In a sea battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, fought off the Netherlands coast, the Dutch win with the fleet of the United Provinces ( commanded by Michiel de Ruyter ) against the allied Anglo-French fleet commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

Before Charles's restoration, the Navigation Acts of 1650 had hurt Dutch trade by giving English vessels a monopoly, and had started the First Dutch War ( 1652 – 1654 ).

However, the First Consul proved reluctant to reduce the numbers of French troops, or return the port of Flushing, for the good of the Dutch as he pointed out, as they needed many of their own troops in their restored colonies, so the " protection " of the French troops was considered necessary.

After the end of the First Anglo – Dutch War in May 1654, the Dutch Republic demanded that New Holland ( Dutch Brazil ) was given back to them.

Because of the First World War, the family name was changed in 1920 from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to van België, de Belgique or von Belgien (" of Belgium "), depending upon which of the country's three official languages ( Dutch, French and German ) is in use.

The First Anglo-Dutch War () ( 1652 – 54 ) ( called the First Dutch War in England ) was the first of the four Anglo-Dutch Wars.

This painting, Action between ships in the First Dutch War, 1652 – 1654 by Abraham Willaerts, may depict the Battle of the Kentish Knock.

The First Anglo-Dutch War was the first war to be fought entirely at sea, with no operations aiming at landing or supporting troops on shore, although the Dutch made plans for a raid on the Medway.

In the First Anglo-Dutch War of 1652 – 1653 Tromp commanded the Dutch fleet in the battles of Dover, Dungeness, Portland, the Gabbard and Scheveningen.

The next two lower-placed teams enter a promotion / relegation mini-league with high-placed teams from the Dutch First Division

Upon the introduction of professional football in the Netherlands in 1954, SV Limburgia had little success and was relegated to the lowest level of Dutch football, Tweede Divisie ( Second Division ).

The Dayton Dutch Lions of the USL Professional Division, the third tier of American soccer play at Bellbrook High School in the Miami Valley South Stadium.

At Arnhem, the Dutch SS Wach Battalion 3 was attached to Kampfgruppe Von Tettau and the 3rd Battalion, 34th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Landstorm Nederland training at nearby Hoogeveen was quickly attached to Harzer ’ s 9th SS Panzer Division when they arrived at the battle on 20 September.

Suharto led his Division X troops to halt an advance by the Dutch T (" Tiger ") Brigade on 17 May 1946.

In late 1946, the Diponegoro Division assumed responsibility for defence of the west and southwest of Yogyakarta from Dutch forces.

In addition to British troops, 3rd Division now commanded Italian, Dutch, Danish, Czech, Lithuanian, Norwegian and New Zealand forces.

In 1945, beginning the Battle of Davao from the combined forces of the British, Australian, Dutch and the Filipino troops of the 6th, 101st, 102nd, 103rd, 104th, 106th, 107th and 110th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and 10th Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary was supported by the recognized Davaoeño guerrilla fighter units by the attack to the Japanese Imperial forces during the liberation in Eastern Davao or Eastern Davao Campaign until the end of the Second World War.

They were mainly from the 1st Airborne Division, but there was also a US 82nd Airborne Division trooper, a number of aircrew, some Dutch civilians and some Russians wishing to join the Allies.

The team plays in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference against the D. C. United Women, Dayton Dutch Lions, Fredericksburg Impact, and Virginia Beach Piranhas.

League Division 1, before he ended his playing career in a championship winning season at Dutch team Ajax in 1998.

Memorials in Dutch village of Dinxperlo honouring the 51st Highland Division for liberating it

Following the outbreak of war in the Pacific, elements of the 7th Division were sent to the Dutch East Indies, reinforcing a few 8th division units.

Most of the 8th Division ' was sent to Malaya to strengthen the garrison prior to war with Japan, while the remaining battalions were deployed in the Dutch East Indies and New Guinea.

At the Dutch headquarters at Genappe ( about five kilometres ( 3 miles ) from Quatre Bras ), Major-General Jean Victor de Constant Rebecque, chief of staff to the Prince of Orange, realising the danger ordered Lieutenant-General Hendrik George de Perponcher Sedlnitsky the commander of the 2nd Dutch Division to dispatch his 2nd Brigade ( Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ) to occupy Quatre Bras.

Early on the evening of 15 June instead of obeying Wellington's order to concentrate the I Corps at Nivelles, Rebecque ordered 1st Brigade ( Count of Bylandt ) of the 2nd Dutch Division to reinforce Prince Bernhard's 2nd Brigade.

The Dutch picket line of the 2nd Division ( Sedlnitsky ) greeted them with musket volleys, but was outnumbered and those east of the Brussels highway were at once forced back by the mass of men moved against them.

At around 15: 00 the 5th British Infantry Division ( Picton ) and the 3rd Dutch Light Cavalry Brigade ( Baron van Merlen ) arrived.

In the early years Go Ahead was the best club in the region but since the relegation to the Dutch First Division in 1987, Zwolle has won most derbies.

Kurita's 7th Cruiser Division participated in the invasion of Java in the Dutch East Indies in December 1941, and in the Indian Ocean Raid where he led a fleet of six heavy cruisers and the light carrier that sank 135, 000 tons of shipping in the Bay of Bengal.

The remainder of the Division Headquarters sailed from New York on 4 December on the Dutch liner New Amserdam.