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The canon (list): 50
items (‘windows’)
 Megalithic
tombs
circa 3000 BC
Early farmers
 The
Roman Limes 47 A.D.-circa 400 A.D.
On the frontiers of the Roman world
 Willibrord 658 A.D.-739 A.D.
The spread of Christianity
 Charlemagne 742 A.D. – 814 A.D.
Emperor of the Land of the Setting Sun
 Hebban
olla vogala
circa 1100
The Dutch language in writing
 Floris
V
1254-1296
A Dutch count and disgruntled nobles
 The
Hanseatic League
1356-circa 1450
Trading towns in the Low Countries
 Erasmus
1469?-1536
An international humanist
 Charles
V
1500-1558
The Low Countries as an administrative unity
 The
“Beeldenstorm” (iconoclastic outbreak)
1566
Religious conflict
 William
of Orange
1533-1584
From rebel nobleman to “father of the country”
 The
Republic
1588-1795
A unique political phenomenon
 The
Dutch East India Company (VOC)
1602-1799
Overseas expansion
 The
Beemster Polder
1612
The Netherlands and water
 The
canal ring
1613-1662
Urban development in the seventeenth century
 Hugo
Grotius
1583-1645
Pioneer of modern international law
 The
Statenbijbel (authorised version of the Bible)
1637
The Book of Books
 Rembrandt
1606?-1669
The great painters
 Blaeu’s
Atlas Major
1662
Mapping the world
 Michiel
de Ruyter
1607-1676
Heroes of the sea and the wide reach of the Republic
 Christiaan
Huygens
1629-1695
Science in the Golden Age
 Spinoza
1632-1677
In search of truth
 Slavery
circa 1637-1863
Human trafficking and forced labour in the New
World
 Country
mansions
17th and 18th centuries
Prosperous living
 Eise
Eisinga
1744-1828
The Enlightenment in the
Netherlands
 The
patriots
1780-1795
Political conflict about modernising the Republic
 Napoleon
Bonaparte
1769-1821
The French period
 King
William I
1772-1843
The kingdom of the Netherlands
and Belgium
 The
first railway
1839
Acceleration
 The
Constitution
1848
Fundamental rules and principles of government
 Max
Havelaar
1860
Scandal in the East Indies
 Opposition
to child labour
19th century
Out of the workplace and back to school
 Vincent
van Gogh
1853-1890
The modern artist
 Aletta
Jacobs
1854-1929
The emancipation of women
 The
First World War
1914-1918
War and neutrality
 De
Stijl
1917-1931
Revolution in design
 The
crisis years
1929-1940
Society in the depression
 World
War II
1940-1945
Occupation and liberation
 Anne
Frank
1929-1945
The persecution of the Jews
 Indonesia
1945-1949
A colony fights for freedom
 Willem
Drees
1886-1988
The welfare state
 The
great flood
1 February 1953
The danger of water
 Television
since 1948
The rise of mass media
 The
port of Rotterdam
since circa 1880
Gateway to the world
 Annie
M.G. Schmidt
1911-1995
Going against the grain of a bourgeois country
 Surinam
and the Netherlands Antilles
since 1945
Decolonisation in the West
 Srebrenica
1995
The dilemmas of peacekeeping
 Diversity
in the Netherlands
since 1945
The multicultural society
 The
natural gas deposit
1959-2030?
A finite treasure
 Europe
since 1945
The Dutch and Europeans
Source:
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