page_title: Bicentennial of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
section_title: Events and publications
hierarchical_section_title: Bicentennial of the Kingdom of the Netherlands / Events and publications
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Schilderij met een afbeelding van de landing van prins Willem Frederik van Oranje door Nicolaas Lodewijk Penning, naar Reinier Vinkeles en een tekening van Jan Willem Pieneman
context_page_description: From 2013 to 2015, the Kingdom of the Netherlands celebrated its bicentennial.
context_section_description: A National Committee, appointed by the Council of Ministers in 2011, supervises the bicentennial celebrations. The Committee is chaired by politicians Ank Bijleveld and Jozias van Aartsen. 
  The celebrations started with a reenactment on 30 November 2013 of Prince William Frederick's landing at Scheveningen, exactly two hundred years earlier, with Huub Stapel playing the role of William Frederick, the later king William I. The reenactment (which is performed every 25 years) drew a crowd of several thousand.
  Five more "national events" have been planned, of which the final one will take place in Amsterdam on 26 September 2015; the bicentennial's official website promises "a spectacular parade of achievements" on the Amstel.
  Aside from the official celebrations, new biographies of the first three kings (William I, II and III) were published, revealing the existence of an illegitimate child of William I and homosexual affairs of William II.
caption: Landing of William Frederick at Scheveningen, 1813
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