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Dutch conquest of northeastern Brazil
The Dutch conquest of northeastern Brazil (Invasão holandesa do Brasil) was the Dutch West India Company's seizure of the Portuguese sugar captaincies of the Brazilian Northeast between 1630 and 1654.
Dutch cricket team in New Zealand in 2021–22
Netherlands men's cricket tour of New Zealand, March–April 2022: one T20I (abandoned, Napier) and three ODIs (Mount Maunganui, Hamilton) in the ICC World Cup Super League; New Zealand swept the ODIs 3–0 in Ross Taylor's farewell series.
Dutch cuisine
Dutch cuisine: the Netherlands' food tradition of simple, hearty everyday meals (stamppot, herring, cheese), shaped by colonial trade and immigration, with 119 Michelin-starred restaurants in 2026.
Dutch Defence
The Dutch Defence, or Dutch Opening, is a chess opening against 1.d4 beginning with 1.d4 f5, named for the Netherlands after Elias Stein's 1789 book.
Dutch Dike reinforcement programmes (HWBP)
The Dutch Dike reinforcement programs, or Hoogwaterbeschermingsprogramma (HWBP), is the national program launched in 2014 to bring all Dutch primary flood defenses up to statutory safety standards by 2050.
Dutch disease
Dutch disease is the decline of a country's manufacturing sector caused by a resource export boom, named for the Netherlands after its 1959 North Sea gas finds.
Dutch door
A Dutch door is a door split horizontally into two halves that can open separately or latch together, letting air in while keeping children and animals out.
Dutch East India Company
The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC) was a Dutch trading company, chartered in 1602, that held a monopoly on Dutch trade in Asia.
Dutch East India Company at the Cape
The Dutch East India Company at the Cape (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC) was a refreshment station founded by Jan van Riebeeck in 1652, under Company rule until 1795.
Dutch East India Company in Malabar
The Dutch East India Company in Malabar was the branch of the VOC that ruled parts of the Malabar Coast of Kerala from the 1660s until 1795.
Dutch East Indies
Dutch East Indies (Nederlands-Indië, Hindia Belanda): the Dutch colony ruling the Indonesian archipelago 1818–1942, from VOC trade to the Cultivation System, forced labour, courts, and independence in 1945–1949.
Dutch elm disease
Dutch elm disease (DED), caused by the fungi Ophiostoma ulmi and Ophiostoma novo-ulmi, is a vascular wilt of elms spread by bark beetles and root grafts; two 20th-century pandemics killed tens of millions of elms in Europe and North America.
Dutch embassies to Edo
The Dutch embassies to Edo (オランダ江戸参府) were journeys by the head of the Dutch East India Company's factory in Japan to the shogun's court, from 1609 to 1850.
Dutch expedition against Bone
The Dutch expedition against Bone was a punitive campaign by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army against the Bugis kingdom of Bone in South Sulawesi in 1824 and 1825.
Dutch expedition to Banten
The Dutch expedition to Banten (Kedatangan armada Houtman di Banten) was the first Dutch trading voyage to the Indonesian archipelago, reaching Banten on Java in June 1596 under Cornelis de Houtman.
Dutch expedition to Palembang
The Dutch expedition to Palembang of 1821, also called the Second Expedition to Palembang, captured Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II's palace and exiled him to Ternate.
Dutch expedition to Valdivia
A 1643 Dutch West India Company expedition commanded by Hendrick Brouwer that occupied the abandoned city of Valdivia in southern Chile, then withdrew after failing to win Mapuche cooperation.
Dutch factory at Cochin
The Dutch factory at Cochin (കൊച്ചി ഡച്ച് കമ്പനി) was the Dutch East India Company's fort and trading settlement at Cochin on the Malabar coast, held from 1663 until 1795.
Dutch Factory Moved to Dejima
The Dutch Factory Moved to Dejima (出島移転) was the transfer, completed on 24 July 1641, of the Dutch East India Company factory from Hirado to Dejima, Nagasaki.
Dutch Formosa
Dutch Formosa, also known as Tayowan, was Dutch East India Company rule in southern Taiwan from 1624 to 1662, ending when Koxinga captured Fort Zeelandia.
Dutch Golden Age
Dutch Golden Age (Gouden Eeuw): the seventeenth century of the Dutch Republic, conventionally 1588-1672, when it led world trade, finance, art (Rembrandt, Vermeer), and science, while profiting from colonial slavery.
Dutch Golden Age literature
Dutch Golden Age literature is the Dutch-language literature of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, a period of prosperity whose central authors include Vondel, Hooft, Huygens, Cats, and Bredero.
Dutch Golden Age painting
Dutch Golden Age painting, also called 17th-century Dutch painting, is the art of the Dutch Republic from 1588 to 1672, defined by a mass middle-class art market, genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes, and masters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals.
Dutch Grand Prix
Dutch Grand Prix (Grote Prijs van Nederland), Formula 1 race at Circuit Zandvoort; championship round 1952–1985, revived 2021, leaves calendar after the 2026 final edition won by Lando Norris.
Dutch guilder
The Dutch guilder, also known as the florin, was the currency of the Netherlands from 1517 until the euro replaced it in 2002, at 2.20371 guilders per euro.
Dutch Harbor
Dutch Harbor, on Amaknak Island at Unalaska, Alaska, is the leading U.S. fishing port by volume for over 25 years and the site of the June 1942 Japanese bombing.
Dutch Holocaust literature
Dutch Holocaust literature is Dutch-language writing on the persecution and murder of the Jews of the Netherlands, including diaries, poetry, and novels, with Anne Frank's diary as its best-known work.
Dutch India
Dutch India: VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) trading settlements in India, 1602-1824, centered on Coromandel Coast forts at Pulicat and Nagapattinam, trading textiles for spices, ending with the 1824 Anglo-Dutch treaty.
Dutch intervention in Bali (1846–1849)
The Dutch intervention in Bali (1846–1849) was a series of three military expeditions by the Netherlands Indies against the Balinese kingdoms of northern Bali, chiefly Buleleng and Karangasem.
Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands), a West Germanic language of the Low Countries between English and German, has about 24 million native speakers, official status in six countries, a 1980 Dutch Language Union, and Afrikaans as its closest relative.