Timeline: Mary Minks

Achterhoek Ancestors

1831 - 1916 (85 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1834	1834: The Winterswijk church gets a new organ by the famous organ builder Naber.
2	1835	1835: Jan Willem Meijerink starts the first textile factory on the Lappenbrink in Winterswijk.
3	1844	1844: The first emigrants leave Winterswijk and Aalten for North-America.
4	1845	1845: Winterswijk Seceders get their own church at the Zonnebrink.
5	1847	1847: On Lake Michigan in the US, the ship 'Phoenix' perishes. On board were 250 emigrants, mostly from Winterswijk, Aalten and Varsseveld.
6	1856	1856: The emigrant vessel Ocean Home perishes in the English Channel off Lizard Point. 70 people drown, including several emigrants from Dinxperlo.
7	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.
8	1884	1884: The railroad from Winterswijk to Neede is opened.
9	1885	1885: The railroad from Winterswijk to Zevenaar, including stations at Bredevoort, Aalten and Varsseveld, was opened.
10	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.
11	1891	1891: Dinxperlo gets its own department of the 'Geldersch-Overijsselse Maatschappij van Landbouw', a society to improve agriculture techniques.
12	1896	1896: A dairy processor is opened in Dinxperlo.
13	1902	1902: A cooperative bank is established in Dinxperlo.
14	1903	1903: About 2/3 of the workers are involved in a railroad strike in Winterswijk to improve working conditions and wages.
15	1908	1908: The hamlet of De Heurne near Dinxperlo gets their own church.
16	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.
17	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.