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| 1956, June 13 |
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| The Labor Party won a small margin in the second chamber in a general election. | 1 |
| After the longest cabinet crisis in Netherlands history, Willem Drees of the Labor Party formed a new coalition cabinet. | 2 |
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| 1957, Dec. 1 |
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| Netherlands citizens in Indonesia, and property owned by Netherlands nationals there, suffered because of Indonesian indignation over the status of Netherlands New Guinea, which the Dutch refused to surrender. | 3 |
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| 1958, Dec. 11 |
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| The coalition cabinet headed by Drees resigned and was succeeded (Dec. 22) by a coalition cabinet under the leadership of Louis J. M. Beel of the People's Party. | 4 |
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| 1959, May 19 |
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| A 68-day government crisis ended with the swearing in of Jan Eduard de Quay, the new premier, and his coalition cabinet. For the first time since World War II, the Labor (Socialist) Party was excluded from the government. | 5 |
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| 1961, Jan. 2 |
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| A 12-day cabinet crisis ended when Premier Jan de Quay withdrew his resignation after Queen Juliana asked him to remain in office. | 6 |
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| 1962, Nov. 28 |
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| Queen Wilhelmina died at the age of 82. | 7 |
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| 1963, May 15 |
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| Premier de Quay's Catholic People's Party won the general elections to Parliament with 50 seats in the 150-member lower house. The Labor Party won 43 seats, the Protestants 26, and the Liberals 11. | 8 |
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| May 20 |
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| Queen Juliana asked Catholic Party member Carl P. M. Romme to form a coalition government. | 9 |
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