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| 1 | 1626 | - 1626: Around 1626, Hendrickje Stoffels is born in Bredevoort. She would later become the mistress and model of the famous painter Rembrandt van Rijn.
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| 2 | 1627 | - 1627: The nearby town of Groenlo is conquered by the Dutch Republican troops and remains Dutch thereafter.
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| 3 | 1636 | - 1636: The plague strikes the area. Several people die of this 'black death'.
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| 4 | 1646 | - 1646: Lightning strikes the gunpowder tower of the Bredevoort castle. The entire castle and several houses in the vicinity are destroyed. Several people, including the sheriff, are killed.
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| 5 | 1648 | - 1648: All the church bells ring in celebration of the peace of Münster, which ends the Dutch War of Independence.
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| 6 | 1665 | - 1665: Münster bishop Bernard van Galen invades the Achterhoek area with a large army.
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| 7 | 1672 | - 1672: Bredevoort is occupied by the Munster bishop Bernard van Galen from 1672 until 1674. During that time, the official religion is changed to Roman-Catholic.
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| 8 | 1674 | - 1674: A chapel of the cross (Kreuzkapelle) is establised just across the German border to allow Roman Catholics from Aalten to worship.
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| 9 | 1682 | - 1682: The Winterswijk weavers get permission to start their own weaver's guild.
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| 10 | 1696 | - 1696: The manor of Bredevoort is given to William III of Nassau (king of England and lieutenant of the Netherlands) as his personal property.
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| 11 | 1698 | - 1698: Dinxperlo gets its first school teacher: Heyne te Beest.
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| 12 | 1704 | - 1704: The Bredevoort fortifications are being enhanced according to the views of the famous fortification expert Menno van Coehoorn.
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| 13 | 1711 | - 1711: The Anabaptists build their own church in Winterswijk.
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| 14 | 1715 | - 1715: Lightning strikes the tower of the Winterswijk church. This causes a fire, which is quickly put out.
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| 15 | 1723 | - 1723: A fire destroys the neighboring town of Varsseveld.
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| 16 | 1727 | - 1727: Two 'contrescarps' (steep inclines) are added in front of the two gates of Bredevoort to further protect the town.
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| 17 | 1730 | - 1730: In Dinxperlo, sections of the common grounds are sold to clear debts with the Bredevoort administration.
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| 18 | 1748 | - 1748: The first complete registration of the population of the manor Bredevoort takes place.
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| 19 | 1750 | - 1750: A religious revival sweeps through Aalten.
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| 20 | 1755 | - 1755: The Bredevoort fortifications are decommissioned.
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| 21 | 1759 | - 1759: The Bredevoort garrison is decomissioned. New rules are introduced for the opening and closing of the town gates.
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| 22 | 1763 | - 1763: English troops pass through Bredevoort.
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| 23 | 1765 | - 1765: In Burlo, an agreement is reach about the border between Aalten, Dinxperlo and Winterswijk and the neighboring bishopric of Münster.
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| 24 | 1775 | - 1775: A new law is introduced for the serfs of the manor of Bredevoort. This law allows them more freedom.
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| 25 | 1784 | - 1784: An inspection shows the Bredevoort fortifications are in disarray. Plans to redevelop the fort are never executed.
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| 26 | 1795 | - 1795: With the French occupation, serfdom is abolished. All former serfs now own the farms they worked on.
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| 27 | 1799 | - 1799: Winterswijk gets its own Catholic church.
- 1799: The noblewoman Judith van Dorth is executed for openly wearing the orange color and supporting the Dutch troops against the French.
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| 28 | 1809 | - 1809: King Lodewijk Napoleon Bonaparte visits Bredevoort.
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| 29 | 1811 | - 1811: With the introduction of the civil registration, all inhabitants are forced to chose a fixed family name. The practice of farm names is now officially abolished, although it is still in use informally today.
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| 30 | 1812 | - 1812: Many conscripted soldiers die during Napoleon's disastrous march to Moscow.
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| 31 | 1813 | - 1813: The Cossacks drive out the French occupiers.
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| 32 | 1818 | - 1818: The municipalities of Bredevoort and Aalten are combined into the new municipality of Aalten.
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| 33 | 1822 | - 1822: In the night of September 27, a fire in Winterswijk destroyed five houses, leaving 15 people homeless.
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| 34 | 1824 | - 1824: In Winterswijk, new taxes on slaughtering animals cause a riot.
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| 35 | 1827 | - 1827: Start of the division of the common grounds.
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| 36 | 1834 | - 1834: The Winterswijk church gets a new organ by the famous organ builder Naber.
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| 37 | 1835 | - 1835: Jan Willem Meijerink starts the first textile factory on the Lappenbrink in Winterswijk.
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| 38 | 1844 | - 1844: The first emigrants leave Winterswijk and Aalten for North-America.
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| 39 | 1845 | - 1845: Winterswijk Seceders get their own church at the Zonnebrink.
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| 40 | 1847 | - 1847: On Lake Michigan in the US, the ship 'Phoenix' perishes. On board were 250 emigrants, mostly from Winterswijk, Aalten and Varsseveld.
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| 41 | 1856 | - 1856: The emigrant vessel Ocean Home perishes in the English Channel off Lizard Point. 70 people drown, including several emigrants from Dinxperlo.
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| 42 | 1880 | - 1880: The railroad from Winterswijk to Bocholt in Germany is opened.
- 1880: Piet Mondriaan, then 8 years old, moves to Winterswijk and grows up there. He would later become a famous painter.
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| 43 | 1884 | - 1884: The railroad from Winterswijk to Neede is opened.
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| 44 | 1885 | - 1885: The railroad from Winterswijk to Zevenaar, including stations at Bredevoort, Aalten and Varsseveld, was opened.
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| 45 | 1890 | - 1890: An ancient cannon has been found in Bredevoort. When this is fired during a celebration, it explodes killing two children.
- 1890: An horse-drawn omnibus starts a regular service between Dinxperlo and Terborg. Each trip could take 10 people and 250 kg of cargo.
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| 46 | 1891 | - 1891: Dinxperlo gets its own department of the 'Geldersch-Overijsselse Maatschappij van Landbouw', a society to improve agriculture techniques.
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| 47 | 1896 | - 1896: A dairy processor is opened in Dinxperlo.
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| 48 | 1902 | - 1902: A cooperative bank is established in Dinxperlo.
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| 49 | 1903 | - 1903: About 2/3 of the workers are involved in a railroad strike in Winterswijk to improve working conditions and wages.
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| 50 | 1908 | - 1908: The hamlet of De Heurne near Dinxperlo gets their own church.
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| 51 | 1911 | - 1911: The smallest church in the Netherlands, de Rietstap, is built in Dinxperlo. The owner had inherited money on the provision he would build a church.
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| 52 | 1914 | - 1914: As a result of the 'great war', traffic ceases to flow between the Achterhoek and Germany.
- 1914: For the first time, an aircraft is spotted in the sky above Dinxperlo.
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| 53 | 1922 | - 1922: Salt is found when drilling for natural resources in Winterswijk.
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Achterhoek Ancestors
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