North Sea flood of 1953
1953 · Event
A night storm surge drowns 1,836 people in Zeeland and 307 in England; the Netherlands resolves it will never happen again.
On these timelines: The Low Countries, Master, England, United Kingdom (combined)
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- 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 1953
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- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Korean War (1950)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Apartheid (1948)