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| 1 | 1586 | - 1586: Bredevoort is troubled by witches. Several witch trials are conducted. One witch dies during torture without confessing her crimes.
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| 2 | 1597 | - 1597: Bredevoort is captured for the Dutch Republic by Maurits of Orange.
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| 3 | 1599 | - 1599: Pastor Rauwerts holds a speech supporting the reformation. Ever since, the Dutch Reformed religion has been the dominant religion in the region.
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| 4 | 1606 | - 1606: The Spanish try to recapture Bredevoort. They capture the town, but not the castle. The Dutch Republican troops reclaim the town.
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| 5 | 1610 | - 1610: Willem ten Oistendarp from De Heurne, Dinxperlo and Berend Swenen from Barlo, Aalten fail the water test and are sentenced to death for witchcraft.
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| 6 | 1611 | - 1611: At the order of the bishop, many anabaptists flee Münster. Several families settle in Winterswijk.
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| 7 | 1612 | - 1612: The Nassaus pawn the manor of Bredevoort.
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| 8 | 1626 | - 1626: Around 1626, Hendrickje Stoffels is born in Bredevoort. She would later become the mistress and model of the famous painter Rembrandt van Rijn.
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| 9 | 1627 | - 1627: The nearby town of Groenlo is conquered by the Dutch Republican troops and remains Dutch thereafter.
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| 10 | 1636 | - 1636: The plague strikes the area. Several people die of this 'black death'.
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| 11 | 1646 | - 1646: Lightning strikes the gunpowder tower of the Bredevoort castle. The entire castle and several houses in the vicinity are destroyed. Several people, including the sheriff, are killed.
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| 12 | 1648 | - 1648: All the church bells ring in celebration of the peace of Münster, which ends the Dutch War of Independence.
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| 13 | 1665 | - 1665: Münster bishop Bernard van Galen invades the Achterhoek area with a large army.
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| 14 | 1672 | - 1672: Bredevoort is occupied by the Munster bishop Bernard van Galen from 1672 until 1674. During that time, the official religion is changed to Roman-Catholic.
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| 15 | 1674 | - 1674: A chapel of the cross (Kreuzkapelle) is establised just across the German border to allow Roman Catholics from Aalten to worship.
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Achterhoek Ancestors
1570 -