Dutch History

Premium · 101 events · spans 19 BCE – 2023 · Explorer + Historian subscribers ad-free; free players unlock for 1 hour via rewarded ad

Two thousand years of Dutch history — from the Roman-era Batavian Revolt to the 2023 Dutch general election. 101 sortable events covering the Low Countries from antiquity to today.

What's in this category

Dutch History spans the long arc of the Low Countries: the Batavian and Frankish periods, the medieval county of Holland, the Burgundian and Habsburg rule, the Dutch Revolt against Spain and the founding of the Dutch Republic, the Golden Age (trade, art, science, the VOC East India Company), the Napoleonic period, the founding of the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands, both world wars, postwar reconstruction, EU founding membership, and the modern political era.

What it's not: Belgian-specific history will eventually have its own category. Dutch History focuses on events centred in today's Netherlands and the broader Low Countries during the periods they were politically unified.

Sample events

Romans Establish Oppidum Batavorum — 19 BCE
Batavian Revolt Against Rome Begins — 69 CE
Nijmegen Granted Roman City Rights — 98 CE
Dutch Republic Declares Independence (representative) — 1581
Dutch East India Company Founded (representative) — 1602
Prussian Army Crushes Dutch Patriots — 1787
Liberation of the Netherlands (representative) — 1945
Geert Wilders Wins Dutch General Election — 2023

+ 93 more events. New events added through corrections and ongoing verification.

Now available

Dutch History is live as a new Premium category — it released 2026-06-01, and Portuguese History flipped permanently free for everyone alongside it.

This is part of our biweekly cadence: every two weeks, a new Premium category drops AND an existing Premium category flips permanently free for everyone. Japanese History + the Japanese app language followed on 2026-06-15.

How to play this category

Live now. Dutch History is a Premium category. Explorer and Historian subscribers play it ad-free; free players can unlock it for 1 hour with a single rewarded ad. Download Sorting History to start playing.

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