When he returned to the Netherlands in October 1979, his band had begun to fall apart, and soon his popularity went downhill.

When U2 performed in the Netherlands three weeks after Brood's suicide, they paid tribute to him at each of the three shows.

When France was negotiating with the Netherlands about purchasing Luxembourg in 1867, the Prussian Kingdom threatened the French government with war.

When the southern provinces of the newly formed kingdom seceded in 1830 ( Belgian Revolution ), the Dutch garrison in Maastricht remained loyal to the Dutch king, William I of the Netherlands, even when most of the inhabitants of the town and the surrounding area sided with the Belgian revolutionaries.

When the senior branch of the family died out in 1559, the Electorate passed to Frederick III of Simmern, a staunch Calvinist, and the Palatinate became one of the major centers of Calvinism in Europe, supporting Calvinist rebellions in both the Netherlands and France.

When the single was released in late 2002, it became Williams ' biggest international hit, going number one in countries like The Netherlands and Italy, as well as reaching the top ten in almost every single European country.

When news of a peace agreement between Portugal and the Netherlands reached Asia in 1663, Goa was the only remaining Portuguese city on the west coast.

When the Netherlands revolted against Spanish rule, beginning in 1566, the territories in what is now Nord-Pas-de-Calais were those most loyal to the throne, and proved the base from which the Duke of Parma was able to bring the whole southern part of the Netherlands back under Spanish control.

When the Romans came to the Netherlands c. 50 BC, the area around was called Oppidium Arnoldi Villa.

When the northern Netherlands revolted against King Philip II of Spain in the Dutch Revolt, the three northern quarters of Gelderland joined the Union of Utrecht and became part of the United Provinces upon the 1581 Act of Abjuration, while only the Upper Quarter remained a part of the Spanish Netherlands.

When France launched the ( Franco-Spanish war of 1635-59 ), Thomas Francis served under the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, brother of Philip IV in the Spanish Netherlands.

When the northern provinces of the Netherlands revolted, the archdiocese fell, with the overthrow of the Spanish power.

When the Germans invaded the Netherlands on the 10th of May 1940 German paratroopers landed in Dordrecht.

When William the Silent, count of Nassau, with estates in the Netherlands, inherited the title Prince of Orange in 1544, the Principality was incorporated into the holdings of what became the House of Orange-Nassau.

When his mother Queen Beatrix became the queen regnant of the Netherlands, prince Willem-Alexander obtained the title " Prince of Orange " as new heir to the Dutch throne.

When this industry left the area for cheaper production centers in South-East Asia, Enschede became one of the poorest municipalities in the Netherlands.

When William of Orange decided to found the first university in the Netherlands in 1575, he initially considered locating it in Middelburg.

When Jacob Munster, a young man from the Netherlands who until the 1860s spelled his surname " Monster ," opened an area General Store complete with a U. S. postal station on the back, the local farmers and settlers came to rely on the postal station, which soon became a United States Post Office.

When the Netherlands and Belgium separated in 1830, there was support for adding Limburg to Belgium, but in the end ( 1839 ) the province was divided in two, with the eastern part going to the Netherlands and the western part to Belgium.

When it was a municipality, Warmond had the highest death rate in all of Netherlands.

When Henry Hudson sailed up what would become known as the Hudson River in 1607, he claimed the entirety of the watershed of the river, including Englewood, for the Netherlands, making the future region of Englewood a part of New Netherland.

When ratified, this was to give Scotland its first Parliament for nearly 300 years.

When the Virginia convention began, the constitution had not yet been ratified by the required nine states.

When this agreement became public in May 1922, bitter resentment was expressed in Germany, but the treaty was still ratified by both countries.

When the text of a treaty is later reprinted, such as in a collection of treaties currently in effect, an editor will often append the dates on which the respective parties ratified the treaty and on which it came into effect for each party.

When John of Antioch and his Syrian bishops finally reached Ephesus five days after the council, they met with Candidian who informed them that Cyril had begun a council without them and had ratified Celestine's conviction of Nestorius as a heretic.

When the NTSC proposed that their new standard be ratified by the FCC, CBS dropped its interest in its own system.

When the 20th Amendment was ratified in 1933, section 3 superseded the above-quoted portion of the 12th Amendment but did nothing to clarify what qualified as a " constitutional disability ":

When the workshop program was ratified in the national assembly, Blanc's chief rival Emile Thomas was put in control of the project.

When five states shall have ratified this Constitution, in the manner before specified, the Congress under the Provisional Constitution, shall prescribe the time for holding the election of President and Vice President ; and, for the meeting of the Electoral College ; and, for counting the votes, and inaugurating the President.

When France ratified the Bretton Woods Agreement in December 1945, the French franc was devalued in order to set a fixed exchange rate with the US dollar.

When the party held its first convention in April 1995 his leadership was ratified by the delegates.

When viewed as an entrenched clause, the Corwin Amendment — had it been ratified — might have been construed to prohibit the Thirteenth Amendment, ratified in 1865, which abolished slavery in the United States and gave Congress enforcement power.

When the FastBlazer was first introduced it did not include V. 34 support, with management stating that they couldn't do so because the standard was not yet ratified.

When, however, the co-operative agreement between the MS & LR and the GNR was ratified by Parliament, while it declared past private agreements with the LNWR as void, the stage was set for the peacemakers.

When he refused, Congress revoked the terms of the Convention, resolving in January 1778 to hold the army until King George ratified the convention, an act they believed unlikely to happen, as it represented an acknowledgment of American independence.

When it was originally ratified, the Bill of Rights was binding only upon the federal government, as the Supreme Court ruled in the 1833 Barron v. Baltimore.

When the Philippine Constitution was ratified in 1935, another change in the town's local governance was introduced: the title of Municipal President was changed to Municipal Mayor.

When George Washington was innaugurated as President on April 30, 1789 Rhode Island was one of only two of the thirteen original states ( along with North Carolina ) not to have ratified the United States Constitution and was, technically speaking, an independent nation with Collins as it chief of state.

When Emperor Charles V learned of Pizarro's victories, he named Valverde first Bishop of Cuzco, the royal city of the Peruvian kings ; pope Paul III ratified his choice in a consistory held in January, 1537.

When Arkansas finally re-entered the union in 1868, it was under yet another constitution, this one created and ratified by the reconstruction legislature rather than by the state elected government.

When secession of the commonwealth was ratified by the people of Virginia, Baldwin felt that it was his duty stay with his home state.

When the same had to be ratified on 14 June by the AICC, one of the dissenting voices came from Tandon.