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Gerrit van Arkel was a Dutch architect who designed many of Amsterdam's most prominent Jugendstil buildings. His buildings include the Asscher diamond factory, where the world's largest diamond, the Cullinan Diamond, was cut.

The Asscher diamond factory

The 1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office was an attempt by the Dutch resistance during World War II to destroy the Amsterdam civil registry. The bombing aimed to prevent the Nazis from identifying Jews and others marked for persecution, arrest or forced labour.

The Amsterdam civil registry office, the day after the bombing

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2021

• Prins Hendrikkade, a major street in Amsterdam

2019

• Israël David Kiek, an early Dutch portrait photographer
• Decadary Cult, a semi-official religion of France during the French Revolution
• Nieuwendijk, Amsterdam, a major shopping street in Amsterdam
• 1945 shooting on Dam square, Amsterdam, during the liberation of Amsterdam in the last days of World War II
• Manor Place Baths, a former public baths, swimming pool and boxing venue in South London
• Crispijn van de Passe the Younger, a Dutch Golden Age engraver and print publisher
• Michiel Nouts, a Dutch Golden Age painter who also served as Amsterdam's town musician
• 1943 bombing of the Amsterdam civil registry office, a Dutch resistance attempt to protect Jews from the Nazis by destroying the Amsterdam civil registry
• Lau Mazirel, a Dutch resistance fighter during World War II and proponent of LGBT and Romani rights
• Stadstekenacademie, Amsterdam, an 18th-century art school in Amsterdam
• Vrije Groepen Amsterdam, a federation of resistance groups in Amsterdam during World War II

2018

• Indies Brigade, a short-lived Dutch-Belgian military unit which took part in the Waterloo Campaign
• Marshal of Holland, an honorary military title in the Napoleonic Kingdom of Holland
• Treaty of Fontainebleau (November 1807), a treaty between French emperor Napoleon and his brother King Louis Bonaparte of Holland
• Maurinus of Cologne, a 9th-century German saint

2017

• Voetboogdoelen, Amsterdam, a former shooting range of the Amsterdam civic guard
• Handboogdoelen, Amsterdam, a former shooting range of the Amsterdam civic guard
• Admiraliteitslijnbaan, Amsterdam, the former ropewalk of the Admiralty of Amsterdam
• Agnietenkapel, Amsterdam a former chapel and birthplace of the University of Amsterdam
• Kloveniersdoelen, Amsterdam, a former shooting range of the Amsterdam civic guard

2014

• CWTS Leiden Ranking, an annual global ranking of universities

2013

• Walloon Church, Amsterdam, a church in Amsterdam dating to the late 15th century
• Regentenstuk, a type of painting that was popular in the Dutch Republic during the 17th and 18th centuries
• Willem de Keyser (architect), a Dutch Golden Age architect and sculptor

2012

• Pieter van Gunst, a 17th/18th-century Dutch draughtsman, engraver and printmaker
• Bureau Bijzondere Opdrachten, a Dutch secret service during World War II
• Jacob Staal, a Dutch commando during World War II
• Lykele Faber, a Dutch commando and radio operator during World War II
• Bethaniënklooster, a 15th century monastery in Amsterdam, now a concert hall
• Huis met de Kabouters, a 19th-century building in Amsterdam
• Walls of Amsterdam, the Medieval and 17th-century city walls of Amsterdam
• Oranje-Nassau Kazerne (Amsterdam), a 19th-century military barracks in Amsterdam
• Nieuwe Waalse Kerk, a 19th-century church building in Amsterdam
• Kadijken (Amsterdam), a neighbourhood in Amsterdam
• Waag (Amsterdam), a 15th-century building in Amsterdam
• Wijnkopersgildehuis (Amsterdam), a 17th-century guildhall in Amsterdam
• Makelaers Comptoir, a 17th-century guildhall in Amsterdam
• Grote Prijs van Nederland, a series of Dutch music awards

2011

• Korenbeurs (Amsterdam), a 17th-century grain exchange in Amsterdam
• Aegidius van Braam, a Dutch naval officer of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era
• Huis aan de Drie Grachten, a 17th-century canal house in Amsterdam
• August Aimé Balkema, a Dutch publisher active in Amsterdam and South Africa
• Internationale Koloniale en Uitvoerhandel Tentoonstelling, an 1883 colonial exhibition in Amsterdam
• Klozum, a holiday feast on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog
• National Monument (Amsterdam), a 1956 World War II monument on Dam Square in Amsterdam

2010

• Dutch Design, a term used to connote design in The Netherlands and the design esthetic common to designers in The Netherlands
• Pieter Hendrik van Zuylen van Nijevelt, a Napoleonic-era Dutch general, baron and count
• Philip Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt, a Napoleonic-era Dutch general, baron and count
• Blauwe Theehuis, a 1937 Modernist pavilion in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam
• Herman Ambrosius Jan Baanders, a 20th-Century Dutch architect
• Herman Hendrik Baanders, a 19th/20th-Century Dutch architect primarily active in Amsterdam
• Abraham de Haen (1707–1748), an 18th-Century Dutch draughtsman, painter and poet
• Cornelis Pronk, an 18th-Century Dutch draughtsman, painter and porcelain designer
• Jan de Beijer, an 18th-Century Dutch draughtsman and painter
• Jacobus Ludovicus Cornet, a 19th-Century Dutch painter and draughtsman
• Daniel de Superville (1657-1728)‎, a Huguenot pastor and theologian who fled France in 1685 and became the minister of the Walloon church in Rotterdam
• Pieter de Keyser, a Dutch Golden Age architect and sculptor
• Nicolaas Bidloo, Dutch physician who served as the personal physician of Peter the Great and founded Russia's first hospital and medical school
• Jan Lichthart, a 17th-Century Dutch admiral and buccaneer