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89 unusual facts about The Hague


1741 English cricket season

Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond (1701 - 1750) married Lady Sarah Cadogan (1706 - 1751), daughter of William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan, on 4 December 1719 at The Hague, Netherlands.

Alexander Brogden

The Gazette entry gives many addresses: Queen Anne’s Gate and Victoria Chambers, Westminster; Aberdare; Tondu; Meathop, Westmorland; Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire; The Hague; Cross Street, Manchester; 46 Dulwich Road, Herne Hill; Ulverstone; Grange-over-Sands; and Wellington, New Zealand.

Amalia of Solms-Braunfels

The end of their journey was The Hague, where stadtholder Maurice of Nassau gave them asylum in 1621.

Andrzej Błasik

He was also a graduate of the Netherlands Defence Academy in The Hague in 1998 and the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama, United States (2005).

B. N. Rau

From February 1952 until his death, he was a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice, The Hague.

Baron Heinrich Karl von Haymerle

He served in the diplomatic corps at Athens, Dresden, and Frankfurt as Secretary of Legation; and served as ambassador in Copenhagen (1864), took part in negotiating the Treaty of Prague (1866), and from Berlin went to Constantinople (1868), Athens (1869), The Hague (1872), and in 1877 to the Italian court.

Bethuel M. Webster

From 1959 to 1965, he served as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, and from 1965 to 1968 he mediated the international territorial dispute between Great Britain and Guatemala over British Honduras.

Biografisch Portaal

The Biografisch Portaal (Biography Portal) is an initiative based at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History in The Hague, with the aim of making biographical texts of the Netherlands more accessible.

Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland

Since 2002 all biographies are available for free online at the Institution for Dutch History, based in The Hague.

Bossche bol

In 1920 a baker from The Hague called Henri van der Zijde took up shop in the same street on number 25 and invented a variation filled with whipped cream and covered with real chocolate, which his heirs see as the first real Bossche Bol.

Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie

The centre is located at the Prins Willem Alexanderhof in The Hague together with the National Archive.

Charles Haskins Townsend

In 1902 he was an expert before the Russo-American fisheries arbitration at The Hague.

Charles Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym

The marriage was declared null and void by a court in The Hague on 26 July 1757, and the Charles Louis and Benjamine's attempts to have their daughter recognized as a princess of Anhalt were rejected by the Reichshofrat on 11 May 1778; likewise.

Convention on the Nationality of Married Women

The Conference for the Codification of International Law, held at The Hague in 1930, drew protests from international women's rights groups, yet the League declined to include legislation enforcing married women's nationality rights.

Count Palatine William of Gelnhausen

Count Palatine William of Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen (4 January 1701 in Gelnhausen – 25 December 1760 in The Hague) was a titular Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld and an Imperial Field Marshal.

Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau

Albertine Agnes was born in The Hague and was the sixth of nine children born to her parents.

Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau

Henriette was born in The Hague and was the seventh of nine children born to her parents.

Dieter Stöckmann

In 1976 - 1978 he attended the General Staff Training Course at the Royal Dutch Military Academy in The Hague, the Netherlands.

Driemanschap

The three statesmen invited the almost forgotten Prince William VI of Orange, the later King William I, to The Hague to prevent anarchy or a possible annexation of the Netherlands by Prussia or England.

Éléonore de Bourbon

On 25 October 1611 it was revealed that the mother of Éléonore and her sister in law Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency, wife of Henri II de Bourbon, would travel to The Hague.

Emmanuel Servais

On 3 August 1841, Servais was named one of nine representatives of Luxembourg that convened in The Hague to advise the King-Grand Duke on its formulation.

Epitácio Pessoa

After leaving the presidency, Epitácio Pessoa was elected to be a Justice of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, and stayed on the bench until November 1930.

Étienne Tshisekedi

This time around, Bemba (the 2006 presidential candidate) was sidelined, on trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for alleged war crimes in 2002–2003.

Fernando Canales Clariond

Later on he received an MBA from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and specialized in industrial relations at the Institute of Social Studies of The Hague, in the Netherlands.

Formule X

Formule X is the new Maurer Söhne X-Car coaster for the Drievliet amusement park in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Frances Hardcastle

Hardcastle was one of 156 British women who publicly supported the aims of the International Congress of Women, held in The Hague in April 1915.

Francisco José Urrutia Olano

In 1931 he was elected to serve as Permanent Judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, where he served until 1942 when he resigned due to theonset of World War II.

Hans Jacob Horst

He was chair of the parliament Peace Association from 1900 and a member of the International Court of Arbitration in The Hague from 1906 to 1929.

Henry Van Ingen

Henry Van Ingen (12 November 1833, The Hague - 17 November 1898, Poughkeepsie, New York) was a Dutch painter who for many years taught art at Vassar College in the United States.

Herbert Brownell, Jr.

Brownell later served as the United States representative to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and from 1972 to 1974, he was special U.S. envoy to Mexico for negotiations over the Colorado River.

Hollanditis

The Hollanditis fever peaked in 1983 with a mass demonstration in The Hague aimed against the deployment.

Iba N'Diaye

N'Diaye exhibited his paintings in New York City (1981), in the Netherlands (1989); in 1990 in Tampere (1990), and at the Museum Paleis Lange Voorhout in The Hague (1996).

Ignatius White

Upon James II's accession to the British throne, Ignatius White of Albeville became a royal advisor and in 1687 went to The Hague as envoy extraordinary.

International court

Three such courts are presently located at The Hague in the Netherlands: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Jagernath Lachmon

Jagernath Lachmon, also Jaggernath Lachmon, (Corantijnpolder, 21 September 1916 - The Hague, 19 October 2001) was a Surinamese politician of Indian descent.

Jakarta Fair

A similar fair called Pasar Malam Besar held in The Hague, Netherlands, also inspired by the "Pasar Malam" tradition of colonial era Pasar Gambir.

James of Portugal

He was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, number 58, at the 9th Chapter of the order, held in 1456 at The Hague.

Jean Lévesque de Burigny

In 1718, at The Hague, he worked with Saint-Hyacinthe on L'Europe savante, in twelve volumes, of which he contributed at least one-half.

Joaquín V. González

González's efforts on behalf of the League of Nations helped lead to his nomination to the International Court of Justice at The Hague, becoming a member in 1921.

John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

In Groningen on 9 September 1659 John George married Henriette Katharina (b. The Hague, 10 February 1637 – d. Schloss Oranienbaum, 3 November 1708), daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange.

John Swaine

In 1834, having taken up oil painting, he visited The Hague and Paris to study and copy in the galleries there.

John William Friso, Prince of Orange

However, in 1711, when traveling from the front in Flanders to The Hague in connection with his suit in the succession dispute, he drowned on 14 July, when the ferry boat on the Moerdyk was overturned in heavy weather.

Joseph Jaquet

In 1864, he secured his first commission in Amsterdam: The Victory for the Volksvlijt Palace (nl), then a second commission for the decoration of the national monument in The Hague Willemspark (nl).

Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration

These meetings, which took place between 1895 and 1916, were instrumental in the creation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands.

Lancaster Country Day School

Since 1980, LCDS has regularly sent senior students to The Hague for International Model United Nations conferences.

Liefmann Calmer

Calmer first moved to The Hague, and later left Holland for France, where he made a fortune in commerce and became official purveyor to King Louis XV.

Liverwurst

Groningen and The Hague are known of their own type of liverwurst; Groninger leverworst in Groningen and Haagse leverworst from The Hague.

Login Geiden

Upon his return to the Netherlands he was captured and locked up in the ill-reputed Gevangenpoort prison in The Hague.

Lola Maverick Lloyd

Lola then traveled to Europe with forty-seven other women that April for the International Congress of Women at The Hague.

Lord's New Church Which Is Nova Hierosolyma

That same year, Pitcairn, Pfeiffer, and others proceeded to establish the Lord's New Church Which Is Nova Hierosolyma, centered in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and The Hague, The Netherlands.

Louis Marie Cordonnier

Further civic commissions in the area culminated in Cordonnier's best known work, the Peace Palace in The Hague, seat of the International Court of Justice.

Ludwig Hohl

From 1924 to 1937 he lived outside of Switzerland, first in Paris (1924–1930), then in Vienna (1930/31) and The Hague (1931–1937).

Mahmut Bakalli

In 2002, Bakalli was the first witness to testify at The Hague International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the trial of Slobodan Milošević.

Margaret of Brieg

A few years after Margaret's death, Aleid was murdered in The Hague.

Albert's only legitimate children were from Margaret of Brieg, he had no issue by Margaret of Cleves, but they held court together in The Hague.

Maria Belgica of Portugal

Soon after she arrived in Geneva she decided to return to The Hague to negotiate a stipend she was entitled to with her uncle Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange and to request her inheritance from her aunt, Maria of Nassau, the Countess of Hohenlohe.

Michel de La Roche

Shortly afterwards de La Roche began to edit the Mémoires Littéraires, which was published at The Hague at intervals till 1724.

Mohamed Bacar

Comoran President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi said that if the French objected to extraditing Bacar to Comoros, where the death penalty is allowed, then it could send him to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for trial.

Montilla-Moriles

The full name, Montilla-Moriles, was first used in 1891 during the Arreglo de Madrid, revised in Washington in 1911 and finally ratified in The Hague in 1925.

Moses Blah

On 7 April 2008, Blah said that he had been sent a subpoena to testify at Taylor's trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.

National Iranian Oil Company

The British government, which owned the AIOC, contested the nationalisation at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, but its complaint was dismissed.

Nederbeat

The Hague was the country's beat capital, along with neighbouring coastal town Scheveningen.

Noordwijk Conference

The Noordwijk Conference was held in Noordwijk, near The Hague, on 6 September 1955 to evaluate the progress made by the Spaak Committee set up by the Messina Conference.

Oliver Óge French

He was an agent for the Irish Confederation to the United Provinces in May 1648, making a speech to the states general in The Hague.

Onafhankelijke Post en Telecommunicatie Autoriteit

Headquartered in The Hague it was created to ensure competitiveness in the newly opened Dutch market for telephony and other telecom activities.

PCC streetcar

The PCC technology was exported to Europe, with La Brugeoise et Nivelles (now the BN division of Bombardier) of Bruges, Belgium, building several hundred streetcars that saw service in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, The Hague, Saint-Étienne, Marseille and Belgrade (the latter city buying vehicles initially used by the Belgian Vicinal railways).

Philadelpho Azevedo

Philadelpho José de Barros e Azevedo (March 13, 1894, Rio de Janeiro - May 7, 1951, The Hague) was a Brazilian lawyer.

Postage stamps and postal history of the Netherlands

A number of stamps have been issued since 1934 for use at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Princess Marianne of the Netherlands

In The Hague on 14 September 1830, Marianne married her first cousin Prince Albert, the fourth son of her mother's brother, King Frederick William III of Prussia.

Raghunandan Swarup Pathak

Within three months of his retirement Pathak became a member of the International Court of Justice at The Hague.

Robert Lansing

An authority on international law, he served as associate counsel for the United States, in the Bering Sea Arbitration in 1892-1893, as counsel for the United States Bering Sea Claims Commission in 1896-1897, as the government's lawyer before the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal in 1903, as counsel for the North Atlantic Fisheries in the Arbitration at The Hague in 1909-1910, and as agent of the United States in the American and British Arbitration in 1912-1914.

Salah Shehade

All those bleeding hearts who have the gall to use Mafioso methods of blackmail against fighters – I don't recall that they ever threatened to turn over one of the arch-terrorists, the terrorists who have killed many Israeli civilians, to The Hague.

The Gush Shalom movement also threatened to turn the pilot over to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Salomon Vredeman de Vries

It is believed he lived in The Hague at the end of his life as this is the place where he died.

Salomon Vredeman de Vries (Mechelen, 1556 - The Hague, 1604), was a Flemish painter and draughtsman who specialised in architectural paintings.

Simon Henry, Count of Lippe

On 15 September 1666, Simon Henry married in The Hague with Baroness Amalia of Dohna-Vianen, Burgravine of Utrecht, heiress of Vianen and Ameide (2 February 1644 in The Hague – 11 March 1700), a daughter of General Christian Albert of Dohna.

Sir George Rawdon, 1st Baronet

In 1625 he was sent to The Hague on business connected with Charles's promised subsidy to Protestant allies.

Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980

Spain was represented by musical trio Trigo Limpio at the Eurovision Song Contest 1980, held in The Hague, Netherlands.

Taiwan Lutheran Church

Belgian Lutherans from The Hague worked closely with their American co-religionists and considerable progress was made during the years from 1902 to 1914.

The Trial of Tony Blair

The programme ends with Tony Blair being flown to his trial in The Hague.

Thomas Buergenthal

Buergenthal served as a judge on the International Court of Justice at The Hague from March 2000 to his resignation in September 2010.

Tom Manders

He attended the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Netherlands for 3 years and was active, among other things, as an advertisement painter and designer of posters.

Uriah M. Rose

President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him a delegate to the Second Peace Conference at The Hague in 1907.

Werner Plan

Werner Plan (or Werner Report) - at the European Summit in The Hague in 1969, the Heads of State and Government of the European Community agreed to prepare a plan for economic and monetary union.

Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange

Frederika Luise Wilhelmina (28 November 1770 in The Hague – 15 October 1819 in The Hague), married in The Hague on 14 October 1790 to Karl, Hereditary Prince of Brunswick (1766–1806), a son of Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg and Princess Augusta of Great Britain, without issue.

Willem Johannes Leyds

Willem Johannes Leyds (Magelang, Dutch East Indies, 1 May 1859 – The Hague, Netherlands, 14 May 1940) was a Dutch lawyer and statesman, who made a career as State Attorney (1884-1889) and State Secretary (1889-1898) of the South African Republic.

William David Blakeslee Ainey

Ainey was a delegate to the International Parliamentary Union for International Peace held at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1912, and at The Hague in 1913.

Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery

On December 4, 2001, the groups's final statement was issued in The Hague.

Yadavindra Singh

Sir Yadavindra served as Indian Ambassador to Italy from 1965–1966 and as Indian Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1971 until 17 June 1974, when he died suddenly in office at The Hague from heart failure, aged 61 after a reign of 36 years.


Anne Bayefsky

Currently, she is a member of the International Law Association Committee on International Human Rights Law and Practice; Editor-in-Chief of the Series "Refugees and Human Rights", published by Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague; and editor of Eye on the UN.

Cordaid

Cordaid was founded in 1999 in The Hague, with the aim of helping people in distress and fighting structural poverty.

David Anthony Chimhini

Hon Chimhini also has a Master of Arts Degree in Development Studies specialising in Labour and Development from the Institute of Social Studies – The Hague, Netherlands.

Denver Oldham

At the age of 24, Oldham went on his first European concert tour, which spanned Copenhagen, Zurich, Oslo, The Hague, and Vienna.

First Liberian Civil War

The Second Liberian Civil War began in 1999 and ended in October 2003, when ECOWAS intervened to stop the rebel siege on Monrovia and exiled Charles Taylor to Nigeria until he was arrested in 2006 and taken to The Hague for his trial.

Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg

Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (Friedrich Wilhelm; 25 October 1768, The Hague – 9 January 1816, Weilburg) was a ruler of Nassau-Weilburg.

Georgie Davis

Georgie Davis (artist name of Kees Rietveld, born 1969 in The Hague) is a Dutch singer who was one of the first participants of the Soundmixshow in 1985, in which he sang a song by Stevie Wonder.

Gérard Cuny

He will attend regularly the subsequent meetings of the European section and the Congress of the International Association of Gerontology (The Hague, Brussels, Copenhagen, San Remo, London).

Gio Wiederhold

He worked on computations of short-range missile trajectories at NATO's Air Defense Technical Center (SADTC) in Wassenaar near The Hague in 1958.

Green politics

In June 1970 in the Netherlands a group called Kabouters won 5 of the 45 seats on the Amsterdam Gemeenteraad (City Council), as well as two seats each on councils in The Hague and Leeuwarden and one seat apiece in Arnhem, Alkmaar and Leiden.

International Federation for Human Rights

The International Secretariat is based in Paris, with delegations to the United Nations in Geneva and New York, to the European Union in Brussels, to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, to the African Union in Nairobi and to the Asean in Bangkok.

James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline

He died at Collinton House, Midlothian, in April 1858, aged 81, and was succeeded in the barony by his son, Sir Ralph Abercromby, KCB, who was Secretary of Legation at Berlin and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sardinia between 1840 and 1851 and to The Hague between 1851 and 1858.

Johnny Dusbaba

Johnny Dusbaba (born 14 March 1956 in The Hague) is a retired Dutch football player who played for ADO Den Haag, Ajax, Anderlecht, Standard Liège, NAC Breda and Sint-Niklase, as well as the Dutch national side.

Kahless

Kahless is the subject of an opera in the Klingon language: ’u’, which debuted at The Hague in September 2010.

Laughing Cavalier

The painting's provenance only goes back to a sale in The Hague in 1770; after further Dutch sales it was bought by the Franco-Swiss banker and collector the Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier in 1822.

Leicester's Men

In the latter year the Earl of Leicester was appointed commander of the English troops in The Netherlands; his progress through Utrecht, Leyden and The Hague was noted for the lavish pageants that were enacted in his honor.

Liberal State Party

The party performed particularly well in the major trading cities Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the rich municipalities around Hilversum and the Hague and in northern rural provinces, like Groningen and Drenthe.

Maarheeze railway station

With an interchange at Eindhoven passengers are able to reach many major places in the Netherlands, such as: Amsterdam, Utrecht, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, The Hague, Venlo and Eindhoven Airport (by bus).

Mark Six

The background music featured in the television broadcasts of the draws is a version of Inkpot, a song written by the Dutch rock band, from the Hague, Shocking Blue.

Marquess of Heusden

For his service as ambassador to The Hague, he was raised into the Dutch nobility with the creation of the hereditary title Markies van Heusden (Marquess of Heusden) by King William I of the Netherlands (royal decree 8 July 1815 no. 14).

Oscar van Dillen

After studies of medieval and Renaissance music with Paul Van Nevel in Leuven (Belgium), he studied classical composition with, among others, Dick Raaymakers and Gilius van Bergeijk at the Koninklijk Conservatory in The Hague in 1990/1991 and with Klaas de Vries, Peter-Jan Wagemans and René Uijlenhoet at the Rotterdam Conservatory from 1996 to 2002.

Paulus Adrianus Daum

Paulus Adrianus Daum (The Hague, 3 August 1850 – Laag-Soeren, 14 September 1898), more commonly known as P.A.Daum, was a Dutch author of Dutch East Indies literature of the nineteenth century.

Ron Hoffmann

Between 1989 and 2001, he held numerous sub-Ambassadorial postings at Canadian missions in The Hague, Johannesburg, Beijing and London.

Théophile Thoré-Bürger

Thoré-Bürger's interest in Vermeer began in 1842 when he saw the View of Delft in the Mauritshuis of The Hague.