Title: History of the Netherlands - Wikipedia
Headings: History of the Netherlands
History of the Netherlands
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Contents
Prehistory (before 800 BC)
Historical changes to the landscape
Earliest groups of hunter-gatherers (before 5000 BC)
The arrival of farming (around 5000–4000 BC)
Funnelbeaker and other cultures (around 4000–3000 BC)
Corded Ware and Bell Beaker cultures (around 3000–2000 BC)
Bronze Age (around 2000–800 BC)
The pre-Roman period (800 BC – 58 BC)
Iron Age
Arrival of Germanic groups
Celts in the south
The Nordwestblock theory
Roman era (57 BC – 410 AD)
Native tribes
Roman settlements in the Netherlands
Batavian revolt
Emergence of the Franks
Disappearance of the Frisii?
Early Middle Ages (411–1000)
Frisians
Franks
Modern doubts about the traditional Frisian, Frank and Saxon distinction
The emergence of the Dutch language
Christianization
Frankish dominance and incorporation into the Holy Roman Empire
Viking raids
High and Late Middle Ages (1000–1433)
Part of the Holy Roman Empire
Political disunity
The Frisians
The rise of Holland
Expansion and growth
Hook and Cod Wars
Burgundian and Habsburg period (1433–1567)
Burgundian period
Habsburg rule from Spain
The Reformation
Prelude to war
The Eighty Years' War (1568–1648)
Golden Age
Dutch Empire
The Dutch in the Americas
Slave trade
The Dutch in Asia: The Dutch East India Company
The Dutch in Africa
Dutch Republic: Regents and Stadholders (1649–1784)
Refugees
Economic growth
Amsterdam
First Stadtholderless Period and the Anglo-Dutch Wars (1650–1674)
Anglo-Dutch wars
Franco-Dutch War and Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1702)
Second Stadtholderless Period (1702–1747)
Economic decline after 1730
Culture and society
The Orangist revolution (1747–1751)
Regency and indolent rule (1752–1779)
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784)
The French-Batavian period (1785–1815)
Patriot rebellion and its suppression (1785–1795)
Batavian Republic (1795–1806)
Kingdom of Holland to William I (1806–1815)
United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815–1839)
Constitutional monarchy
Belgium breaks away
Democratic and Industrial Development (1840–1900)
1848 Constitutional reform and liberalism
Religion and pillarisation
Flourishing of art, culture and science
1900 to 1940
Colonial focus
Neutrality during the First World War
Interwar period
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Nazi invasion and occupation
Holocaust in the Netherlands
The war in the Dutch East Indies
False hopes, the Hunger Winter and Liberation
Post-war events
Prosperity and European Unity (1945–present)
Baby boom and economic reconstruction
Flood control
Europeanisation, Americanisation and internationalisation
Decolonisation and multiculturalism
Liberalisation
Recent politics
The Netherlands today
Historians and historiography
Historians
Historiography
See also
Notes
Further reading
Geography and environment
External links

Content: During the eighteenth century, the power, wealth and influence of the Netherlands declined. A series of wars with the more powerful British and French neighbours weakened it. The UK seized the North American colony of New Amsterdam, and renamed it "New York". There was growing unrest and conflict between the Orangists and the Patriots. The French Revolution spilled over after 1789, and a pro-French Batavian Republic was established in 1795–1806. Napoleon made it a satellite state, the Kingdom of Holland (1806–1810), and later simply a French imperial province. After the collapse of Napoleon in 1813–15, an expanded " United Kingdom of the Netherlands " was created with the House of Orange as monarchs, also ruling Belgium and Luxembourg. The King imposed unpopular Protestant reforms on Belgium, which revolted in 1830 and became independent in 1839. After an initially conservative period, following the introduction of the 1848 constitution, the country became a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch. Modern-day Luxembourg became officially independent from the Netherlands in 1839, but a personal union remained until 1890.