Events
- January 1 - New coins and banknotes are put into circulation, expressed in euro, the new currency introduced in 1999.
- February 2 - Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Máxima Zorreguieta wed in Amsterdam.
- April 10 - The Dutch Institute for War Documentation presents its findings in the investigation of the Srebrenica Massacre.
- April 16 - The Dutch government resigns over the findings of the Dutch Institute for War Documentation into the Srebrenica Massacre.
- May 6 - Maverick politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by animal rights activist Volkert van der Graaf.
- May 15 - Pim Fortuyn's LPF are the winners of the Dutch general elections, winning 26 out of 150 parliamentary seats and becoming the second biggest party of the Netherlands, in the first election the party has participated in.
- July 22 - Jan Peter Balkenende succeeds Wim Kok as Prime Minister, as his government, consisting of CDA, LPF and VVD is sworn in.
- July 22 - A few hours after having been sworn in, LPF's State Secretary for Social Affairs and Work Opportunity (Staatssecretaris van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid) Philomena Bijlhout resigns after evidence was presented that she had been a member of a militia of Dési Bouterse in Suriname in 1982 and 1983, something she had denied until that moment.
- October 16 - The Dutch government falls after infighting in the LPF
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