Benelux Union formed
1944 · Event
Three governments-in-exile in London sign a customs union before their countries are even liberated — the working model for European integration.
On these timelines: The Low Countries, Master, Economic History
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- Dutch Golden Age (1588)
- Dutch Republic (1588)
- Johannes Vermeer (1632)
- William the Silent (1533)
- Jan van Eyck (1390)
- Belgian Revolution (1830)
- Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652)
- German invasion of the Netherlands (1940)
Around 1944
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Korean War (1950)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)