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Date |
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| 1 | 1896 | - 1896: A dairy processor is opened in Dinxperlo.
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| 2 | 1902 | - 1902: A cooperative bank is established in Dinxperlo.
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| 3 | 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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| 4 | 1908 | - 1908: The hamlet of De Heurne near Dinxperlo gets their own church.
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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 1922 | - 1922: Salt is found when drilling for natural resources in Winterswijk.
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Achterhoek Ancestors
1894 - 1924 (30 years)