The Low Countries
Explore The Low Countries on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Dutch Golden Age (1588)
- Dutch East India Company chartered (1602)
- Dutch Republic (1588)
- Anne Frank (1929)
- Rembrandt van Rijn (1606)
- Ghent Altarpiece completed (1432)
- German invasion of Belgium (1914)
- Dutch Declaration of Independence (1581)
- Rembrandt's The Night Watch (1642)
- Vincent van Gogh (1853)
- Johannes Vermeer (1632)
- William the Silent (1533)
- Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665)
- Anne Frank's Diary (1947)
- Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466)
- Congo Free State (1885)
- Arnolfini Portrait (1434)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Battle of Passchendaele (Third Ypres) (1917)
- Battle of Waterloo (1815)
- Jan van Eyck (1390)
- Belgian Revolution (1830)
- The Sea Beggars take Brielle (1572)
- The relief of Leiden (1574)
- The Spanish Fury at Antwerp (1576)
- Operation Market Garden (1944)
- Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights (1505)
- Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor) (1500)
- Second Battle of Ypres / first poison gas (1915)