1999 in the Netherlands

Incumbents

• Monarch: Beatrix
• Prime Minister: Wim Kok

  Events

• February 25: A legionellosis outbreak occurs in Bovenkarspel.
• March 25: Political party Livable Netherlands is founded.
• May 1: Marianne Vaatstra is murdered in Veenklooster
• May 22: The European Soundmix Show 1999 takes place in Amsterdam.
• June 10: The European Parliament election takes place.
• June 21: Free newspaper Spits is founded.
• July 1: The Dutch Transport Safety Board is founded.
• July 1: Europol is founded.
• September 23: A widow is murdered in her house in Deventer, this is the beginning of the Deventer murder case.
• November 1: Two laboratories merge into the Netherlands Forensic Institute.

  Music

• List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1999
• Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999

  Sport

• 1998–99 in Dutch football
• 1999 Dutch Open
• 1999 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament
• 1999 Heineken Trophy
• 1999 World Table Tennis Championships
• 1999 Amstel Gold Race
• 1999 Ronde van Nederland
• 1999 Dutch TT
• 1999 Masters of Formula 3