The Kingdom of the Netherlands is 200 years old. Celebrations marking the bicentenary will be held from 2013 to 2015.

30 November 2013 – Kick-off in Scheveningen and The Hague On this day precisely 200 years ago Willem Frederik, Prince of Orange-Nassau, (later King Willem I) landed at Scheveningen beach after sailing from England, where his father – Prince William V, Prince of Orange-Nassau – had fled to in 1795 to escape the French. Now, 200 years later, a re-enactment of that historic landing at Scheveningen.