First Dutch railway opens
1839 · Event
The Amsterdam–Haarlem line opens, the Netherlands' first railway.
On these timelines: The Low Countries, Industrial Revolution, Master
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- Dutch Golden Age (1588)
- Dutch Republic (1588)
- William the Silent (1533)
- Jan van Eyck (1390)
- Belgian Revolution (1830)
- Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652)
- Burgundian Netherlands (1384)
- German invasion of the Netherlands (1940)
Around 1839
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- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)