Delta Works
1954–1997 · Event
Forty years of dams, sluices and the great Oosterschelde barrier close the Zeeland estuaries — the world's largest flood defence, built by a nation below sea level.
On these timelines: The Low Countries, Master, Science & Technology
More from The Low Countries
- 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 1954
- Apartheid (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)