5 January – The Netherlands reports a record 24,590 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.[1]
18 January – Hong Kong orders the culling of 2,000 small animals, such as hamsters, chinchillas and rabbits, closes pet shops, and sends 100 people to a quarantine camp after nearly a dozen hamsters imported from the Netherlands and sold at Little Boss pet shop were infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant which also spread to two people.[2]
6 May – Two people are killed and three others are injured during a mass shooting at a care home in Molensingel, Alblasserdam, Netherlands. The perpetrator was already wanted for murdering a man at a shop yesterday.[5]
20 May – Belgium reports its first case of monkeypox.[6]
20 June – Dutch climate and energy minister Rob Jetten announces that the Netherlands will remove all restrictions on the operation of coal-fired power stations until at least 2024, in response to Russia's refusal to export natural gas to the country. Operations were previously limited to less than a third of the total production.[8]
27 June – One person is killed and ten others injured after a tornado hits Zierikzee.[9]
July to September
25 July – The Netherlands reports 106 new confirmed cases of monkeypox.[10]
2 August – Mark Rutte becomes the longest-serving Prime Minister in Dutch history, overtaking Ruud Lubbers (1982–1994).[11][12]
28 August – Six people are killed and seven others are injured after a truck crashes into a community barbecue in Nieuw-Beijerland, South Holland.[13]
30 September – Inflation in the Netherlands increases to 17%, a record in decades, amid skyrocketing energy and fuel prices.[14]