Historic timeline The Netherlands

By Olivia.dv

  • After World War One a big group of Chinese immigrants came to The Netherlands.

  • Germany invades and occupies The Netherlands in the Second World War

  • Period: to

    The Dutch East Indies

    The most important colony of The Netherlands. Around 300,000 Dutch, Mollucans and Indo people, left Indonesia for the Netherlands.

  • Guest workers from Southern Europe.

    Guest worker from Spain and Italy cam to The Netherlands to help us reconstruct The Netherlands after the Second World War.

  • The Dutch economy boomed

    The Dutch government invited guest workers from Turkey and Morocco, they moved with their wife and children to The Netherlands.

  • The law on family reunification.

    This law gives families the right to live together, this gave a result that the original guest labourers started to rise. Many women and children from Moroccan and Turkish origin, arrived in The Netherlands to reconnect with their husband.

  • The Dutch colony of Surinam gets independence and hundreds of thousand of Surinamese emigrate to The Netherlands.

  • New groups of refugees immigrate to The Netherlands. Most political refugees come from Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan.

  • The gay-marriage was legalised, being the first country in the world.

  • Period: to

    Immigration from India to The Netherlands.

  • Willem Alexander becomes the king.

  • Peter R. de Vries was shot and Murdered in Amsterdam