2016 in the Netherlands

This article lists some of the events from 2016 related to the Netherlands .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Willem-Alexander
• Prime Minister: Mark Rutte (VVD)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Khadija Arib (PvdA)
• President of the Senate: Ankie Broekers-Knol (VVD)

Events

• 29 January: the Netherlands join the American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War
• February: plastic contaminates chocolate manufactured at a Mars Nederland factory in Veghel
• 23 February: Dalfsen train crash, one dead
• 1 March: official inauguration of the new seat of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in The Hague
• 28 March: special forces raid an apartment in Rotterdam and arrest four men suspected of plotting a terrorist attack ^[1]
• 6 April: 2016 Dutch Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement referendum
• 12 April: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is partially evacuated after a Polish drunk man indicated he was a terrorist ^[2]
• 18 April: René Paas is appointed to be the King's Commissioner of Groningen
• 8 May: PSV Eindhoven wins the 2015–16 Eredivisie
• 15 May: Max Verstappen becomes the first Dutch F1-winner ever during the Spanish Grand Prix, after the crash of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg
• 6–10 July: the 2016 European Athletics Championships is held in Amsterdam
• 27 July: death of former Prime Minister Piet de Jong
• 26 August: opening of the Utrecht Vaartsche Rijn railway station
• 13 September: John Jorritsma takes over as Mayor of Eindhoven
• 22 September: Thierry Baudet founds the Forum for Democracy political party
• 19–23 October: Amsterdam Dance Event, Dutch DJ Martin Garrix wins DJ Mag's Top 100 first place
• 28 November–8 December: 2016 Labour Party leadership election won by Lodewijk Asscher
• 9 December: MP and Party for Freedom Leader Geert Wilders is found guilty of inciting racial discrimination ^[3]
• 14 December: Sylvana Simons founds the political party Artikel 1

Deaths

• 13 December – Hebe Charlotte Kohlbrugge, theologian (born 1914) ^[4]

See also

• 2015–16 Eredivisie
• List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 2016
• 2016 in Dutch television
• Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
• Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2016

References

1. Four terrorism suspects arrested, ammunition found in Rotterdam, Netherlands Times, 28 March 2016.
2. Homeless Pole was responsible for Schiphol security scare, dutchnews.nl, 2016/04.
3. Wilders found guilty, abc.com, 9 Dec. 2016.
4. Kähler, Christoph (14 December 2016). "Niederländische Theologin Hebe Kohlbrugge ist verstorben" [Dutch theologian Hebe Kohlbrugge has died] (Press release) (in German). Evangelical Church in Central Germany. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2022.