Timeline: Jan Willem Renzink

Achterhoek Ancestors

1793 - Aft 1880 (> 88 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1795	1795: With the French occupation, serfdom is abolished. All former serfs now own the farms they worked on.
2	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.
3	1809	1809: King Lodewijk Napoleon Bonaparte visits Bredevoort.
4	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.
5	1812	1812: Many conscripted soldiers die during Napoleon's disastrous march to Moscow.
6	1813	1813: The Cossacks drive out the French occupiers.
7	1818	1818: The municipalities of Bredevoort and Aalten are combined into the new municipality of Aalten.
8	1822	1822: In the night of September 27, a fire in Winterswijk destroyed five houses, leaving 15 people homeless.
9	1824	1824: In Winterswijk, new taxes on slaughtering animals cause a riot.
10	1827	1827: Start of the division of the common grounds.
11	1834	1834: The Winterswijk church gets a new organ by the famous organ builder Naber.
12	1835	1835: Jan Willem Meijerink starts the first textile factory on the Lappenbrink in Winterswijk.
13	1844	1844: The first emigrants leave Winterswijk and Aalten for North-America.
14	1845	1845: Winterswijk Seceders get their own church at the Zonnebrink.
15	1847	1847: On Lake Michigan in the US, the ship 'Phoenix' perishes. On board were 250 emigrants, mostly from Winterswijk, Aalten and Varsseveld.
16	1856	1856: The emigrant vessel Ocean Home perishes in the English Channel off Lizard Point. 70 people drown, including several emigrants from Dinxperlo.
17	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.