This article lists some of the events from

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...

related to the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

Incumbents

*Monarch:

Juliana Juliana (variants Julianna, Giuliana, Iuliana, Yuliana, etc) is a feminine given name which is the feminine version of the Roman name Julianus. Juliana or Giuliana was the name of a number of early saints, notably Saint Julian the Hospitaller, whi ...

until April 30. After April 30

Beatrix Beatrix is a Latin feminine given name, most likely derived from ''Viatrix'', a feminine form of the Late Latin name ''Viator'' which meant "voyager, traveller" and later influenced in spelling by association with the Latin word ''beatus'' or "ble ...

*Prime Minister:

Dries van Agt Andreas Antonius Maria "Dries" van Agt (; 2 February 1931 – 5 February 2024) was a Dutch politician, jurist and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 19 December 1977 until 4 November 1982. He was a prominent leader o ...

Events

January

* 1: The Benelux-tunnel underneath the

Nieuwe Maas The Nieuwe Maas (; "New Meuse") is a distributary of the Rhine River, and a former distributary of the Meuse (river), Maas River, in the Netherlands, Dutch Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland. It runs from the confluence of th ...

(

Vlaardingen Vlaardingen () is a large town and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in South Holland in the Netherlands. It is located on the north bank of the Nieuwe Maas river at the confluence with the Oude Maas. The municipality admin ...

Schiedam Schiedam () is a large town and municipality in the west of the Netherlands. It is located in the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, west of the city Rotterdam, east of the town Vlaardingen and south of the city Delft. In the south, Schi ...

Hoogvliet Hoogvliet () is a borough of Rotterdam, Netherlands. As of 1 January 2023, it had 35,885 inhabitants. There is also a national chain of Dutch supermarkets with the same name. History The village Hoogvliet was first mentioned on 26 May 1326 in th ...

) becomes toll free. * 16: The striking ban for civil servants and the railways is abolished from Dutch law. This ban was part of the

Abraham Kuyper Abraham Kuyper ( , ; 29 October 1837 – 8 November 1920) was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist pastor and a journalist. He established the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which upo ...

''strangle laws'' of 1903. * 31:

Queen Juliana Juliana (; Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina; 30 April 1909 – 20 March 2004) was List of monarchs of the Netherlands, Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980. Juliana was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Duke ...

announces that on April 30 she will abdicate in favor of her daughter

who will become 42 that day.

February

* 29: Vondelstraat Riots: In

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

squatter riots break out when the police tries to remove squatters from their premise at the Vondelstraat. Street brawls go on for several days.

March

* 3: The army removes barricades after the

mayor of Amsterdam Below is a list of Burgomaster, mayors of Amsterdam (Dutch language, Dutch: ''burgemeesters''), capital of the Netherlands. The city had four burgomasters, serving four years. Since 1389 the mayors were elected on 1 February. In the 17th and 18th ...

assigns them to reconquer the Vondelstraat from the squatters. * 4: Herman Bodde utters the famous words: Do we want to go to the Dam? Then we will go to the Dam. This happened during a laborers manifestation at the RAI complex in Amsterdam-South, the venue was moved there out of fear of squatter riots. * 17: The Mobil unit ends the blockade at the Borsele nuclear plant. * 19:

King Juan Carlos King is a royal title given to a male monarch. A king is an absolute monarch if he holds unrestricted governmental power or exercises full sovereignty over a nation. Conversely, he is a constitutional monarch if his power is restrained by f ...

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

arrives in the

for a state visit lasting 3 days. This was the first visit of a

Spanish monarch The monarchy of Spain or Spanish monarchy () is the constitutional form of government of Spain. It consists of a Hereditary monarchy, hereditary monarch who reigns as the head of state, being the highest office of the country. The Spanish ...

on Dutch soil since

Philip II of Spain Philip II (21 May 152713 September 1598), sometimes known in Spain as Philip the Prudent (), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and List of Sicilian monarchs, Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598. He ...

in 1559.

April

* 1: The NOS officially begins airing

Teletext Teletext, or broadcast teletext, is a standard for displaying text and rudimentary graphics on suitably equipped television sets. Teletext sends data in the broadcast signal, hidden in the invisible vertical blanking interval area at the to ...

* 3: It's officially announced in

Lekkerkerk Lekkerkerk is a town and former municipality on the Lek River, now part of the municipality of Krimpenerwaard, South Holland province, the Netherlands. Since 1 January 1985 Lekkerkerk is no longer an independent municipality. Lekkerkerk is mos ...

that new residential neighborhood Lekkerkerk-West is built on a chemic waste dumping site. The 270 residing families are evacuated and temporarily housed elsewhere, after which the ground underneath the houses is dug up and sanitized. * 21: The first angioplasty treatment takes place at the Saint Antonius Hospital in

Utrecht Utrecht ( ; ; ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city of the Netherlands, as well as the capital and the most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Utrecht (province), Utrecht. The ...

. * 30: The abdication of

in favor of her oldest daughter

. The inauguration of Beatrix as Queen of the Netherlands is marred by large riots known as the Kroningsoproer (see Amsterdam coronation riots).

May

* 8: In urban and regional

public transportation Public transport (also known as public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) are forms of transport available to the general public. It typically uses a fixed schedule, route and charges a fixed fare. There is no rigid definition of whi ...

strip tickets are implemented as part of the national tariff system.

June

* The Dutch lower house asks with a motion from Jan Nico Scholten to boycott oil from

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

. Minister Van der Klaauw advised against the motion, and will not execute it. * 21: Princess Margriet opens the 1980 Paralympics in

Arnhem Arnhem ( ; ; Central Dutch dialects, Ernems: ''Èrnem'') is a Cities of the Netherlands, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near the German border. It is the capita ...

. * 25: Prime minister

hands the 37 first inhabitants of

Almere Almere () is a Planned community, planned List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Flevoland, Netherlands across the IJmeer fro ...

their house keys.

July

* 25:

Winsum train disaster The Winsum train disaster took place on 25 July 1980 near Winsum in the Dutch province of Groningen. Nine people died and 21 were injured. The collision took place on a single track between Sauwerd and Roodeschool that did not have ATB or signa ...

: Two trains collide between the villages Winsum and

Sauwerd Sauwerd is a village in the municipality of Het Hogeland, Groningen, Netherlands. Until the local government reorganization of 1990 the village was the head of the former municipality of Adorp. The village of Sauwerd is 7 to 10 kilometers away ...

, resulting in 9 casualties.

August

September

* 9: Establishment of the

Dutch Language Union The Dutch Language Union ( , NTU) is an international regulatory institution that governs issues regarding the Dutch language. It is best known for its spelling reforms which are promulgated by member states, grammar books, the Word list of th ...

. * 13: Bart van Kampen establishes the Black Market in

Beverwijk Beverwijk () is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The town is located about northwest of Amsterdam in the Randstad metropolitan area, north of the North Sea Canal very close to the North Sea coast. A ...

October

11: A merger meeting between the ARP,

CHU Chu or CHU may refer to: Chinese history * Chu (state) (c. 1030 BC–223 BC), a state during the Zhou dynasty * Western Chu (206 BC–202 BC), a state founded and ruled by Xiang Yu * Chu Kingdom (Han dynasty) (201 BC–70 AD), a kingdom of the H ...

and KVP results in the new political party CDA.

November

December

* 28: Scapegoat

Marinus van der Lubbe Marinus van der Lubbe (; 13 January 1909 – 10 January 1934) was a Dutch communist who was tried, convicted, and executed by the government of Nazi Germany for setting fire to the Reichstag building—the national parliament of Germany—on ...

, is posthumously acquitted for setting fire to the

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...

Reichstag building The Reichstag (; ) is a historic legislative government building on Platz der Republik in Berlin that is the seat of the German Bundestag. It is also the meeting place of the Federal Convention, which elects the President of Germany. The Ne ...

Sports

1979–80 Eredivisie The Dutch Eredivisie in the 1979–80 season was contested by 18 teams. Ajax won the championship. League standings Results See also * 1979–80 Eerste Divisie * 1979–80 KNVB Cup References Eredivisie official website - info on all se ...

1979–80 Eerste Divisie The Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 1979–80 season was contested by 19 teams. FC Groningen won the championship. New entrants Relegated from the 1978–79 Eredivisie * FC Volendam * VVV-Venlo VVV-Venlo (, ''VVV'' stands for ''Venlose Voetbal ...

1979–80 KNVB Cup The 1979-80 KNVB Cup 62nd edition of the Netherlands, Dutch national Association football, football annual knockout tournament for the KNVB Cup. 46 teams contested, beginning on 1 September 1979 and ending at the final on 17 May 1980. AFC Ajax, A ...

* 1980 Amstel Gold Race * Netherlands at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Births

* 6 February – Deborah Louz, taekwondo practitioner * 15 April –

Agnes Joseph Agnes Scarlet Joseph (born 15 April 1980) is a Dutch politician from the New Social Contract who was elected to the Dutch Parliament in the 2023 Dutch general election. Her focus is on pensions, financial markets, elderly and disabled care, and ...

, Dutch politician * 23 April –

Nicole den Dulk Nicole den Dulk (born 23 April 1980) is a Paralympic equestrian. She became paraplegic in 2013 after a riding accident. She competed at the 2016 Paralympic Games where she won a bronze medal in the team event alongside Frank Hosmar, Rixt van ...

, Paralympic equestrian * 17 May –

Alistair Overeem Alistair Cees Overeem (born 17 May 1980) is a Dutch former professional mixed martial artist and kickboxer. He is a former Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion, Dream Heavyweight Champion, K-1 World Grand Prix Champion, and was the first fight ...

, professional mixed martial artist and kickboxer * 22 July –

Dirk Kuyt Dirk Kuijt (; born 22 July 1980), anglicised to Kuyt, is a Dutch former professional footballer and the current manager of Pro League club Beerschot. Originally starting out as a forward, he played much of his career as a right winger. Kuyt b ...

, football manager * 17 August –

Jan Kromkamp Jan Kromkamp (born 17 August 1980) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He manages CSV Apeldoorn. Kromkamp played a total of 201 games in the Eredivisie and scored eight goals in nine seasons, playing for both ...

, football manager

References

{{Commons category