* 1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.

* 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.

* 1609 – Eighty Years ' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Lutjegast, Dutch Republic

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Whilst Marlborough led his army, General Overkirk would maintain a defensive position in the Dutch Republic in case Villeroi mounted an attack.

Category: Battles involving the Dutch Republic

For the Grand Alliance – Austria, England, and the Dutch Republic – the battle had followed an indecisive campaign against the Bourbon armies of King Louis XIV of France in 1705.

Shortly after Marlborough landed in the Dutch Republic on 14 April, news arrived of major Allied setbacks in the wider war.

In the end England and the Dutch Republic took control of the newly won territory for the duration of the war ; after which it was to be handed over to the direct rule of ‘ Charles III ’, subject to the reservation of a Dutch Barrier, the extent and nature of which had yet to be settled.

Category: Battles involving the Dutch Republic

The myth was perpetuated by Romeyn de Hooghe's Spiegel van Staat der Vereenigden Nederlanden (" Mirror of the State of the United Netherlands ", 1706 ), which also ran to many editions, and it was revived in the atmosphere of Romantic nationalism in the late eighteenth-century reforms that saw a short-lived Batavian Republic and, in the colony of the Dutch East Indies, a capital ( now Jakarta ) that was named Batavia.

Following the discovery of the islands by Columbus, the area was quickly colonised by several Western cultures ( initially Spain, then later Portugal, England, the Dutch Republic, France and Denmark ).

Fahrenheit was born in 1686 in Danzig ( Gdańsk ), the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but lived most of his life in the Dutch Republic.

After the Spanish and Portuguese ports were closed to the Dutch ships, the Republic began to show interest for trading in the Atlantic region.

Spain offered peace on condition that the Dutch Republic would withdraw from trading to Asia and America.

In 1791, the company's stock was bought by the Dutch government, and on 1 January 1792, all territories previously held by the Dutch West India Company reverted to the rule of the States-General of the Dutch Republic.

This threatened to unite the Spanish and French kingdoms under the House of Bourbon – something unacceptable to England, the Dutch Republic, and Leopold I, who had himself a claim to the Spanish throne.

From the beginning the Emperor had refused to accept the will of Charles II, and he did not wait for England and the Dutch Republic to begin hostilities.

* Treaty of Elbing, signed between the Dutch Republic and the Swedish Empire in 1656

This brought them into conflict with Britain and the Dutch Republic, which wished to preserve the independence of the southern Netherlands from France.

The navy of the Dutch Republic was the first navy to build the larger ocean-going frigates.

He was readying a batch of sourdough biscuits for the Dutch oven.

The Dutch Reformed Church, with two steeples and its own school was on Main Street ; ;

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

Dutch Arminianism was originally articulated in the Remonstrance ( 1610 ), a theological statement signed by 45 ministers and submitted to the States-General of the Netherlands.

Jacobus Arminius was a Dutch pastor and theologian in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

This Synod of Dort was open primarily to Dutch Calvinists ( Arminians were excluded ) with Calvinist representatives from other countries, and in 1618 published a condemnation of Arminius and his followers as heretics.

The fort was partially destroyed by the Dutch in the mid 17th century, rebuilt, then destroyed again in 1776 by an earthquake.

( In the 1970s Ruelle and the Dutch mathematician Floris Takens produced a new model for turbulence, and it was Ruelle who invented the concept of a strange attractor in a dynamical system.

The Slogger Turbo Board was a professionally fitted upgrade whereas the Elektuur modification was described in an article in Dutch Electronics magazine Elektuur and intended for users to perform at home.

A book was released to coincide with the exhibition, containing sections in French, Dutch and English.

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.

Remarkably " Aster " was also the name given to a Dutch Supercomputer much later, in 2002.

The aster was chosen for Dutch schools by the Dutch ministry of education, in a set-up with eight disk-less Asters, and one Aster with high capacity floppy drives all connected by a LAN based on the Asters high-speed serial port hardware, and special cables that permitted that any single computer on the LAN could broadcast to all other computers.

Hence, historically, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as " Cape Dutch " ( a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers ) or ' kitchen Dutch ' ( a crude or derogatory term Afrikaans was called in its earlier days ).

* Adrian Vandenberg ( born 1954 ), Dutch rock guitarist

* Adrian van Hooydonk ( born 1964 ), Dutch automobile designer

* Bruno Bruins ( born 1963 ), Dutch politician

* Erik de Bruin ( born 1963 ), Dutch discus thrower and shot putter

* Jan Bruin ( born 1969 ), Dutch footballer

* Luigi Bruins ( born 1987 ), Dutch footballer

* Petra de Bruin ( born 1962 ), Dutch cyclist

* Corrie de Bruin ( born 1976 ), Dutch discus thrower and shot putter

* Hanke Bruins Slot ( born 1977 ), Dutch politician

* Regina Bruins ( born 1986 ), Dutch racing cyclist

The idea of being " born again in Christ " inspired some common European forenames: French René / Renée ( also used in the Netherlands ), Dutch Renaat / Renate, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Renato / Renata, Latin Renatus / Renata, which all mean " reborn ", " born again ".

Claus Sluter ( born 1340s in Haarlem ; died in 1405 or 1406, Dijon ) was a sculptor of Dutch origin.

Ellen Gezina Maria van Langen ( born February 9, 1966 in Oldenzaal, Overijssel ) is a former Dutch middle distance runner.

They were either in the womb, or were recently born, during the great Dutch famine of 1944 – when German troops monopolized food and 18, 000 people died of starvation.

* Diederik Hol ( born 1972 ), Dutch designer

Karl's mother, born Henrietta Pressburg ( 20 July 1788 – 30 November 1863 ), was a Dutch Jew who, unlike her husband, was only semi-literate.

Louis Andriessen ( born 6 June 1939 ) is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam.

* Micha Wertheim ( born 1972 ), Dutch stand-up comedian

* Jos Punt ( born 1946 ), a Dutch bishop

* Piet Hein Donner ( born 1948 ), Dutch politician

Remment Lucas " Rem " Koolhaas (; born ) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

A daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and Elizabeth Stuart, also known as the " Winter King and Queen of Bohemia " for their short rule in that country, Sophia was born in The Wassenaer Hof, The Hague, Dutch Republic, where her parents fled into exile after the Battle of White Mountain. She was also the granddaughter of James VI of Scotland., At birth, Sophia was granted an annuity of 40 thalers by the Estates of Friesland.