2015 in the Netherlands

Incumbents

• Monarch – Willem-Alexander
• Prime Minister – Mark Rutte
• Speaker of the House of Representatives – Anouchka van Miltenburg, Khadija Arib
• President of the Senate – Ankie Broekers-Knol

  Events

January

• 8 January: after the Charlie Hebdo shooting over 18,000 demonstrators for freedom of speech joined events around the Netherlands, following the call of the Mayors of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and later more called to do so; many Dutch Government members joined the demonstrations
• 29 January: man holding a fake gun tries to take over the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting news studio in Hilversum because he wanted to tell the audience about a conspiracy theory of his; he was arrested later that evening by the police without hurting anyone.

  February

• 2 February: opening of the Barneveld Zuid railway station
• 9 February: the political party Denk is founded by MPs Tunahan Kuzu and Selçuk Öztürk
• 12–15 February: the 2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships take place in the Thialf Arena in Heerenveen

  March

• 15 March: Ivo Opstelten and Fred Teeven resign from the Ministry of Security and Justice
• 18 March: provincial and water board elections are held.

  April

• 18 April: PSV Eindhoven wins the 2014–15 Eredivisie

  May

• 12 May: Jesse Klaver takes over as Leader of GroenLinks

  June

• 9 June: Senate election, 2015

  July

August

• 19–23 August: SAIL Amsterdam

  September

• 8 September: the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam is fully evacuated after parts of the hospital were flooded because of a burst in a major water-pipeline

  October

• 6 October: locals demonstrate in Oranje, Drenthe to oppose the instalment an asylum seekers centre in the village
• 14–18 October: Amsterdam Dance Event

  November

December

• 16 December: 2015 Geldermalsen riot