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The Hague

city and municipality in South Holland, Netherlands, seat of the Dutch government

28 dated entries naming The Hague, drawn from 28 separate years between 1392 CE and 2002 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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14th century

  • 1392September 23 – Aleid van Poelgeest, the mistress of Count Albert of Holland, is found dead at the Altena Castle in The Hague, along with the Count's chamberlain, Willem Cuser, the victim of Hook nobles who were opposed to Count Albert.source

16th century

  • 1581July 26 – The Act of Abjuration is signed at The Hague by representatives of eight Dutch provinces as a declaration of independence from Spanish rule and a secession from the Union of Utrecht. The signing confirms a decision made in a July 22 meeting of the States General in Antwerp. King Philip II of Spain refuses to acknowledge the Abjuration.source

17th century

  • 1608February 7 – A peace conference opens at the Binnenhof at The Hague, in the Netherlands, to end a war between the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium).source
  • 1619May 13 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague, after having been convicted of treason.source
  • 1642February 23–March 11 – Henrietta Maria, queen consort of England, and her eldest daughter Mary, newly created Princess Royal, leave Falmouth, Cornwall, to go into exile at the Dutch court in The Hague.source
  • 1651October – An English diplomatic team, headed by Oliver St John, goes to The Hague to negotiate an alliance between the Commonwealth of England and the Dutch Republic.source
  • 1666October 11 – The Sieur de Buat, Captain Henri de Fleury de Coulan of the Army of the Dutch Republic, is beheaded in public at The Hague after being convicted of attempting to overthrow Dutch leader Johan de Witt.source
  • 1672August 20 – Johan de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland and his brother Cornelis de Witt are killed by an Orangist mob in The Hague.source
  • 1699December 3 – Baron Jacob Hop is appointed as the treasurer-general of The Hague.source

18th century

  • 1787June 28 – Princess Wilhelmina of Orange, sister of King Frederick William II of Prussia, is captured by Dutch Republican patriots, taken to Goejanverwellesluis and not allowed to travel to The Hague.source

19th century

  • 1808The Rijksmuseum moves from The Hague to Amsterdam, where it is located temporarily at the Royal Palace.source
  • 1899May 18 – The First Hague Peace Conference, initiated by Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, is opened in The Hague by Willem de Beaufort, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.source
  • 1900February 6 – The International Arbitration Court at The Hague is created, when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.source

20th century

  • 1907June 15 – The Second Hague Peace Conference opens at The Hague.source
  • 1912January 23 – The First International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague to restrict exports.source
  • 1922February 15 – The inaugural session of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) is held in The Hague.source
  • 1933April 5 – The International Court of Justice in The Hague decides that Greenland belongs to Denmark, and condemns Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland. Norway submits to the decision.source
  • 1944The first V-2 rocket attack on London takes place, launched from The Hague.source
  • 1946April 18 – The inaugural session of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) takes place at The Hague.source
  • 1948March 18 – The Round Table Conference convenes in The Hague, Netherlands, to prepare the decolonization process for the Caribbean island of Aruba and the other Dutch Colonies. Aruba presents the mandate of the Aruban People for Aruba to become an independent country, under the sovereignty of the House of Orange, based on Aruba's first state constitution presented officially since August 1947, and a (4th) member state of the future Dutch Commonwealth.source
  • 1952April 4 – At a tribunal in The Hague, Israel demands reparations worth $3 billion from West Germany.source
  • 1954May 14 – The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict is adopted in The Hague, Netherlands.source
  • 1974September 13 – Japanese Red Army members seize the French Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands.source
  • 1980October 25 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.source
  • 1991February 11 – The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is formed in The Hague, Netherlands.source
  • 1996July 11 – Arrest warrants are issued for Bosnian Serb war criminals Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić by the Russell Tribunal in The Hague.source
  • 1999May 27 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.source

21st century

  • 2002February 12 – The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former president of Yugoslavia, begins at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.source

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