2016 in the Netherlands

This article lists some of the events from 2016 related to the Netherlands.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Willem-Alexander
 * Prime Minister: Mark Rutte (VVD)
 * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Khadija Arib (PvdA)
 * President of the Senate: Ankie Broekers-Knol (VVD)

Events

 * 13 January: 2016 Speaker of the House of Representatives election won by Khadija Arib
 * 29 January: the Netherlands join the American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War
 * February: plastic contaminates chocolate manufactured at a Mars Nederland factory in Veghel
 * 23 February: Dalfsen train crash, one dead
 * 1 March: official inauguration of the new seat of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in The Hague
 * 28 March: special forces raid an apartment in Rotterdam and arrest four men suspected of plotting a terrorist attack
 * 6 April: 2016 Dutch Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement referendum
 * 12 April: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is partially evacuated after a Polish drunk man indicated he was a terrorist
 * 18 April: René Paas is appointed to be the King's Commissioner of Groningen
 * 8 May: PSV Eindhoven wins the 2015–16 Eredivisie
 * 15 May: Max Verstappen becomes the first Dutch F1-winner ever during the Spanish Grand Prix, after the crash of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg
 * 6–10 July: the 2016 European Athletics Championships is held in Amsterdam
 * 27 July: death of former Prime Minister Piet de Jong
 * 26 August: opening of the Utrecht Vaartsche Rijn railway station
 * 13 September: John Jorritsma takes over as Mayor of Eindhoven
 * 22 September: Thierry Baudet founds the Forum for Democracy political party
 * 19–23 October: Amsterdam Dance Event, Dutch DJ Martin Garrix wins DJ Mag's Top 100 first place
 * 28 November–8 December: 2016 Labour Party leadership election won by Lodewijk Asscher
 * 9 December: MP and Party for Freedom Leader Geert Wilders is found guilty of inciting racial discrimination
 * 14 December: Sylvana Simons founds the political party Artikel 1

Deaths

 * 13 December – Hebe Charlotte Kohlbrugge, theologian (born 1914)