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After World War One a big group of Chinese immigrants came to The Netherlands.
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Germany invades and occupies The Netherlands in the Second World War
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The Dutch East Indies
The most important colony of The Netherlands. Around 300,000 Dutch, Mollucans and Indo people, left Indonesia for the Netherlands. -
Guest workers from Southern Europe.
Guest worker from Spain and Italy cam to The Netherlands to help us reconstruct The Netherlands after the Second World War. -
The Dutch economy boomed
The Dutch government invited guest workers from Turkey and Morocco, they moved with their wife and children to The Netherlands. -
The law on family reunification.
This law gives families the right to live together, this gave a result that the original guest labourers started to rise. Many women and children from Moroccan and Turkish origin, arrived in The Netherlands to reconnect with their husband. -
The Dutch colony of Surinam gets independence and hundreds of thousand of Surinamese emigrate to The Netherlands.
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New groups of refugees immigrate to The Netherlands. Most political refugees come from Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan.
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The gay-marriage was legalised, being the first country in the world.
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Immigration from India to The Netherlands.
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Willem Alexander becomes the king.
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Peter R. de Vries was shot and Murdered in Amsterdam