2 Jan: Special meeting of the Council of Ministers to discuss the position of the Militair Gezag[1]
11 Jan: The cabinet accepts that the queen does not sign the arrangement for the emergency parliament.[1]
14 Jan: Commencement of the evacuation of Venlo.[1]
20 Jan: Commencement of the evacuation of Roermond.[1]
22 Jan: The ministers approve a letter from Gerbrandy warning the queen against the formation of a royal cabinet.[1]
23 Jan: Gerbrandy dismisses Burger from the cabinet due to a radio speech and tenders the resignation of the cabinet.[1]
31 Jan: A delegation invited by the queen from the liberated South arrives in London.[1]
February
5 Feb: Minister van Kleffens refuses to form a cabinet.[1]
8 Feb: The queen instructs Gerbrandy to form a new cabinet.[1]
10 Feb: The arrestation regulations for the area to be liberated are established.[1]
15 Feb: Minister van Heuven Goedhart inaugurates the first Tribunal.[1]
23 Feb: Announcement of the composition, to the extent completed, of the third Gerbrandy cabinet.[1]
24 Feb: Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy urges Eisenhower's Chief of Staff Bedell Smith for a separate offensive for the liberation of the Netherlands north of the major rivers. [2]
7 Mar: Rauter is seriously wounded in an ambush at Woeste Hoeve; two hundred and sixty-three death-row candidates are executed.[2]
14 Mar: The Combined Chiefs of Staff instruct Eisenhower to launch a separate offensive for the liberation of West Netherlands.[2]
18 Mar: J.J.F. Borghouts ('Peter-Zuid') arrives in occupied territory as the Commander of the Fighting Section of the BS (Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten/Interior Forces).[2]
30 Mar: Commencement of the liberation of East and North Netherlands.[2]
April
2 Apr: In a conversation with Hirschfeld, Seyss-Inquart suggests the idea of a ceasefire that would allow large-scale assistance to the famine-stricken provinces.[2]
4 Apr: Mussert flees over the Afsluitdijk to The Hague.[2]
6 May: General Blaskowitz signs the capitulation order presented to him the previous day in the auditorium of the Agricultural College in Wageningen.[2]
16 May: Dissolution of the College of Trusted Men.[2]
20 May: A Canadian force arrives on Texel and the local German forces surrender, ending the Georgian uprising on Texel. The Georgians are allowed to retain their arms.[3]
June
3 Jun: German forces on the island of Ameland surrender.[4]
11 Jun: The last 600 active German troops in the Netherlands, on the island of Schiermonnikoog, surrender to the Canadians and are evacuated from the island, completing the liberation of the Netherlands.[5]
16 Jun: The Georgian Legion is evacuated from Texel.[3]
Births
4 January – Jean Bessems, carom and artistic billiards player