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The new nation had two equal parts. The north (Netherlands proper) had 2 million people. They spoke chiefly Dutch but were divided religiously between a Protestant majority and a large Catholic minority. The south (which would be known as "Belgium" after 1830) had a population of 3.4 million people.
In 1621, the Dutch West India Company was founded. Between 1621 and 1623, orders were given to the private, commercial traders to vacate the territory, thus opening up the territory to Dutch settlers and company traders. It also allowed the laws and ordinances of the states of Holland to apply.
On 17 July 2014, 196 Dutch people are among 298 people on aboard were killed in the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 plane shot down by the air-surface missile in Eastern Ukraine near Russian border. [61] A referendum on the approval of the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine was held in The Hague on 6 April 2016.
Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 73 years of broadcasting it is fifth on the list of longest-running American television serie
Major conflicts were fought in the Eighty Years' War against Spain (from the foundation of the Dutch Republic until 1648), the Dutch–Portuguese War (1598–1663), four Anglo-Dutch Wars (the first against the Commonwealth of England, two against the Kingdom of England, and a fourth against the Kingdom of Great Britain, 1665–1667, 1672–1674 ...
On 4 May 1903, a group of over 200 Dutch emigrants sailed on the steamship "Oropesa" shipping company "Pacific Steam Navigation Company, from La Rochelle (La Pallice) in France. The majority of migrants were born in the Netherlands: 35% were from North Holland and South Holland, 13% of North Brabant, 9% of Zeeland and equal number of Gelderland.
1958 - Netherlands Film and Television Academy founded. 1959 - Population: 872,000. [39] 1960 Anne Frank House museum established on the Prinsengracht. Academie voor Kleinkunst (school) founded. Uitzendbureau Amstelveen (now Randstad NV) was founded. 1961 - Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre opens. 1962 - Hilton Hotel in business.
In 2022, there were 4.4 million residents in the Netherlands with at least one foreign-born parent. [209] Over half the young people in Amsterdam and Rotterdam have a non-western background. [210] Dutch people, or descendants of Dutch people, are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in South Africa and the United States. [211] [212]