2009 in the Netherlands

Incumbents

• Monarch: Beatrix
• Prime Minister: Jan Peter Balkenende

  Events

January

February

• 10: The Postbank completely mergers into the ING Bank.

  March

• 29: KLM stops flying to Aruba. Subsidiary Martinair takes over the 4 flights a week.

  April

• 30: 2009 attack on the Dutch Royal Family

  May

• 1: Adolescence a work of Salvador Dali is stolen from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art.

  June

• 4: 2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

  July

• 1: The air-tax that was introduced on 1 July 2008 is abolished.
• 30: 6 Dutch people die in a bus accident at Sant Pol de Mar, Spain. Dozens of other people are hurt.

  August

• 19: A family tragedy takes place in Kampen, Overijssel. During a fire in a house 4 young children die. The remaining family members, amongst them 10 other children, find a way out of the house in time.

  September

• 6: Dutch soldier Kevin van der Rijdt, corporal van het Corps Commando-troops, dies near Deh Rahwod. He's the 20th soldier to die since the beginning of the mission in Afghanistan.
• 6:The HSL-Zuid is officially opened.
• 7: The 21st soldier since the beginning of the mission in Afghanistan: Mark Leijsen, Sergeant-Major of the Pantsergenie, dies in Uruzgan in an assault with an improvised explosive.

  October

• 19: The DSB Bank is declared bankrupt.

  November

December

• 13: The Thalys starts driving on the Highspeed-line Schiphol - Antwerpen.
• 25: Northwest Airlines Flight 253, a passengers-flight Amsterdam to Detroit, is the target of a failed bombing attempt.

  Sport

• March 5–23: The Netherlands participated at the 2009 World Baseball Classic. The Netherlands lost to Puerto Rico in the Seeding game.
• March 25–29 Netherlands at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
• July 1–5 Netherlands at the 2009 European Road Championships
• August 15–23 Netherlands at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics
• September 23–27 Netherlands at the 2009 UCI Road World Championships
• October 18: Gilbert Yegon wins the Amsterdam Marathon