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| 1802 |
| | | The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Napoleon announces that Holland is to be a kingdom, with his 28-year-old brother Louis Bonaparte on the throne | |
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| 1813 |
| | | The head of the house of Orange becomes, for the first time, the sovereign prince of the Netherlands | |
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| 1815 |
| | | The English and Prussian generals Wellington and Blücher defeat Napoleon in a closely fought battle at Waterloo | |
|  | Sketch map of the positions of the armies at Waterloo
National Archives, Kew
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| 1872 |
| | | The Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin splits the International Congress into rival camps at its meeting in the Hague | |
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| 1886 |
| | | Dutch painter Vincent Willem van Gogh moves from Antwerp to Paris | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invents the galvanometer, or electrocardiograph, for recording the electrical impulses within the heart muscle | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Dutch dancer Gertrud Zelle begins a career in Paris, using the stage name Mata Hari | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Dutch and British companies (Royal Dutch Oil, Shell Transport and Trading) merge to form Royal Dutch Shell Oil | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Piet Mondrian and other Dutch artists establish the movement known as De Stijl, together with a magazine of the same name | |
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