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Date |
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| 1 | 1813 | - 1813: The Cossacks drive out the French occupiers.
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| 2 | 1818 | - 1818: The municipalities of Bredevoort and Aalten are combined into the new municipality of Aalten.
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| 3 | 1822 | - 1822: In the night of September 27, a fire in Winterswijk destroyed five houses, leaving 15 people homeless.
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| 4 | 1824 | - 1824: In Winterswijk, new taxes on slaughtering animals cause a riot.
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| 5 | 1827 | - 1827: Start of the division of the common grounds.
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| 6 | 1834 | - 1834: The Winterswijk church gets a new organ by the famous organ builder Naber.
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| 7 | 1835 | - 1835: Jan Willem Meijerink starts the first textile factory on the Lappenbrink in Winterswijk.
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| 8 | 1844 | - 1844: The first emigrants leave Winterswijk and Aalten for North-America.
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| 9 | 1845 | - 1845: Winterswijk Seceders get their own church at the Zonnebrink.
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| 10 | 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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Achterhoek Ancestors
Abt 1813 - 1850 (~ 37 years)