Timeline: Hendrik Jan Rensink

Achterhoek Ancestors

1813 - 1895 (82 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1813	1813: The Cossacks drive out the French occupiers.
2	1818	1818: The municipalities of Bredevoort and Aalten are combined into the new municipality of Aalten.
3	1822	1822: In the night of September 27, a fire in Winterswijk destroyed five houses, leaving 15 people homeless.
4	1824	1824: In Winterswijk, new taxes on slaughtering animals cause a riot.
5	1827	1827: Start of the division of the common grounds.
6	1834	1834: The Winterswijk church gets a new organ by the famous organ builder Naber.
7	1835	1835: Jan Willem Meijerink starts the first textile factory on the Lappenbrink in Winterswijk.
8	1844	1844: The first emigrants leave Winterswijk and Aalten for North-America.
9	1845	1845: Winterswijk Seceders get their own church at the Zonnebrink.
10	1847	1847: On Lake Michigan in the US, the ship 'Phoenix' perishes. On board were 250 emigrants, mostly from Winterswijk, Aalten and Varsseveld.
11	1856	1856: The emigrant vessel Ocean Home perishes in the English Channel off Lizard Point. 70 people drown, including several emigrants from Dinxperlo.
12	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.
13	1884	1884: The railroad from Winterswijk to Neede is opened.
14	1885	1885: The railroad from Winterswijk to Zevenaar, including stations at Bredevoort, Aalten and Varsseveld, was opened.
15	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.
16	1891	1891: Dinxperlo gets its own department of the 'Geldersch-Overijsselse Maatschappij van Landbouw', a society to improve agriculture techniques.