Timeline: Jan Albert van Engeland

Achterhoek Ancestors

1910 - 1984 (74 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	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.
2	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.
3	1922	1922: Salt is found when drilling for natural resources in Winterswijk.
4	1927	1927: Rev. Stegeman from Aalten holds a speech in Amsterdam, which is transmitted by radio. In Aalten, tickets are sold to hear the show for 15 cents.
5	1932	1932: A chalk quarry is established in the Vosseveld area near Winterswijk.
6	1933	1933: Winterswijk gets their own department of the Nationalist Socialist party, the NSB. This party later becomes the major ally of the nazi party.
7	1934	1934: The Bredevoort railroad station was decommissioned.
8	1936	1936: In a flare of anti-semitical violence, Jewish Winterswijker Mozes Kan is molested in his home.
9	1940	1940: Start of the German occupation.
10	1943	1943: Hundreds of Jewish inhabitants are deported to the concentration camps in eastern Europe where most of them are murdered.
11	1944	1944: Several members of the Winterswijk resistance are arrested and killed.
12	1945	1945: Tanks battle fiercely in the hamlet of Woold. The Achterhoek is liberated from the German occupation.
13	1949	1949: The German town of Süderwick is annexed to Dinxperlo and becomes Dutch territory.
14	1959	1959: A group of people from the Moluccas (part of the former Dutch colony of the Dutch East Indies) are housed in camp Vossenveld in Winterswijk.
15	1963	1963: The town of Süderwick is given back to Germany after it had been annexed to the Netherlands in 1949.
16	1980	1980: The demise of the textile industry in the area leads to the closure of Winterswijk's last textile factory the Batavier.