Perth is set on the Swan River, named after the native black swans in 1697 by Willem de Vlamingh, captain of a Dutch expedition and namer of WA's Rottnest Island.

* July 17 – Roemer Vlacq I, Dutch naval captain ( b. 1637 )

* date unknown – Willem Ysbrandtsz Bontekoe, Dutch sea captain ( b. 1587 )

* January 24 – Dutch captain Willem Schouten rounds the southern tip of South America and names it Kaap Hoorn, after his birthplace in the Netherlands.

Another legend claims that following the Navigation Acts ( an ordinance by Oliver Cromwell requiring all foreign fleets in the North Sea or the Channel to dip their flag in salute ) the Wilhelmus was sung ( or rather, shouted ) by the sailors on the Dutch flagship Brederode in response to the first warning shot fired by an English fleet under Robert Blake, when their captain Maarten Tromp refused to lower his flag.

* June 2 – Willem Ysbrandtsz Bontekoe, Dutch sea captain ( d. 1657 )

** Dirk Hartog, Dutch ship's captain and explorer ( d. 1621 )

In 1674, Dutch navy captain Jurriaen Aernoutsz also briefly captured two forts in the French colony of Acadia, which he claimed as the Dutch territory of New Holland.

The Dutch captain Maarten Gerritsz Vries in the Breskens entered the Sea of Okhotsk from the south-east in 1643, and charted parts of the Sakhalin coast and Kurile Islands, but failed to realize that either Sakhalin or Hokkaido are islands.

Ruud Gullit was thus the first Dutch captain to hold aloft international silverware.

In 1607, he joined the Dutch East India Company and left for Asia, returning with the rank of captain ( of the Hollandia ) five years later.

He became, after a conflict with the WIC about policy and payment, Lieutenant-Admiral of Holland and West Frisia on 26 March 1629, and thus factual supreme commander of the confederate Dutch fleet, taking as flag captain Maarten Tromp.

In this he was assisted by a Dutch captain, Laurens Heemskerck, who had fled to England after having been condemned to death for cowardice shown during the Battle of Lowestoft.

She retired from athletics in 1955, after which she became captain of the Dutch female track and field team.

* Dorus Rijkers, Dutch lifeboat captain

On June 3, 1631, Dutch captain David Pietersen de Vries landed along the shores of the Delaware to establish a whaling colony in the mid-Atlantic of the New World.

These were retaken by the French captain Armand de Kersaint in 1782, and restored to the Dutch after the war.

The town was renamed Pattersonville after the captain successfully moved the post office to Dutch Settlement.

* 1665-Jacob, Baron van Wassenaer, Lord Of Obdam dies during a seabattle with the English while being the captain of a Dutch vessel.

The town is named for 1620 Dutch captain named Cornelius Jacobsen Mey who explored and charted the area between 1611 – 1614, and established a claim for the province of New Netherland.

Sea captain and explorer Henry Hudson, in search of the mythical Northwest Passage in the service of the Dutch West India Company, anchored along the shores of Sandy Hook Bay in 1609, describing the area " a very good land to fall in with and a pleasant land to see.

In the midst of this, in 1637, De Ruyter became captain of a private ship meant to hunt for raiders operating from Dunkirk who were preying on Dutch merchant shipping.

Roosenburg convinced a Dutch captain to give her group documentation stating that they were political prisoners and should have priority in transportation home ; the paperwork she suggested did not mention their nationality, and so left them free to impersonate French or Belgian political prisoners.

Brainpower and Extince however both enjoy a great respect for bringing up hip hop in their native Dutch.

The Dutch, however, who clung to their troops for their country's protection, were against any adventurous military operation as far south as the Danube and would never willingly permit any major weakening of the forces in the Spanish Netherlands.

The Dutch, however, who had supplied the major share of the troops and money to secure the victory ( the Austrians had produced nothing of either ) claimed the government of the region till the war was over, and that after the peace they should continue to garrison Barrier Fortresses stronger than those which had fallen so easily to Louis XIV ’ s forces in 1701.

Now enjoying control of the nutmeg production the VOC paid the perkeniers 1 / 122nd of the Dutch market price for nutmeg, however, the perkeniers still profited immensely building substantial villas with opulent imported European decorations.

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.

Only modern Dutch preserves this Germanic form, however.

In the Dutch courts, however, it has long been determined that the institutionalized non-enforcement of statutes with well defined limits constitutes de facto decriminalization.

Dutch research has however shown that an increase of THC content also increase the occurrence of impaired psychomotor skills, particularly among younger or inexperienced cannabis smokers, who do not adapt their smoking-style to the higher THC content.

Natural resources can add substantial's to a country's wealth, however a sudden inflow of money caused by a resource boom can create social problems including inflation harming other industries (" Dutch disease ") and corruption, leading to inequality and underdevelopment, this is known as the " resource curse ".

The Dutch East India Company did not, however, actually employ the Swedish botanist and physician Carl Peter Thunberg ( 1743 – 1828 ), who arrived in Japan in 1775.

Van Rijn is, however, far from the modern type of business executive, being a kind of throwback to the merchant venturer of the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century.

The " Acoustical professional " turntable ( earlier marketed under Dutch " Jobo prof ") of the 1960s however possessed an expensive German drive motor, the " Pabst Aussenläufer " (" Pabst outrunner ").

The Dutch language however, makes a much greater difference in pronunciation between these vowels, and therefore the Dutch have difficulties hearing the difference between them in English pronunciation.

In 2000, however, the Dutch revised the structure of their aid package and signaled to the Surinamese authorities their decision to disburse aid by sectoral priorities as opposed to individual projects.

The Spanish and the Dutch Republic outnumbered the English fleet's 22 galleons and 108 armed merchant ships ; however, The Spanish lost as a result of bad weather on the English Channel and poor planning and logistics, and in the face of the skills of Sir Francis Drake and Charles Howard, the second Baron Howard of Effingham ( later first Earl of Nottingham ).

The constitution contained many present-day Dutch political institutions ; however, their functions and composition have changed greatly over the years.

Hauer's supporting role, however, was barely noticed in Hollywood, and he returned to Dutch films for several years.

In 1662, however, Koxinga expelled the Dutch from Taiwan ( see History of Taiwan ).

In the early seventeenth century, the Dutch art historian Karel van Mander described Bosch ’ s work as comprising " wondrous and strange fantasies "; however, he concluded that the paintings are " often less pleasant than gruesome to look at.

One factory had, however, been built by the Dutch at Cantley in Norfolk in 1912.

The program of reform that the Dutch revolutionaries attempted to put in place ( however constrained by the political realities of the French revolution as this was to progress ) was mostly driven by indigenous needs and aspirations.

The Dutch initially accepted the new government, however, relations between Suriname and the Netherlands collapsed when 15 members of the political opposition were killed by the army on December 8, 1982, in Fort Zeelandia.

Dutch cuisine is characterized by its somewhat limited diversity ; however, it varies greatly from region to region.