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Amsterdam has a long and eventful history. The origins of the city lie around 1000 CE, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] when inhabitants settled at the mouth of the Amstel and began peatland reclamation . [ 1 ] After the All Saints' Flood (1170) , a dam was built in the Amstel to protect the lower lands from floods.
Amsterdam has a rich architectural history. The oldest building in Amsterdam is the Oude Kerk (English: Old Church), at the heart of the Wallen, consecrated in 1306. [173] The oldest wooden building is Het Houten Huys [174] at the Begijnhof. It was constructed around 1425 and is one of only two existing wooden buildings.
The following is a timeline of the history of the municipality of Amsterdam, Netherlands This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
In terms of popular history, there has been an effort to ensure greater historical accuracy in museums and historic tourist sites. [139] Once heralded as the leading event of modern Dutch history, the Dutch Revolt lasted from 1568 to 1648, and historians have worked to interpret it for even longer. In 2007, Laura Cruz explained the major ...
This part of Amsterdam would become a neighborhood with the grandeur of Paris or London of that time. It was very different from the older neighborhoods of Amsterdam, which were overcrowded and consisted of small streets. His expansion consisted of a central wide street with large public buildings on it and smaller side streets. He financed it ...
The Amsterdam City Archives (Dutch: Stadsarchief Amsterdam) preserves documents pertaining to the history of Amsterdam and provides information about the city. With archives covering a shelf-length of about 50 kilometres, [2] the Amsterdam City Archives is the largest municipal archive in the world.
Military history of Amsterdam (3 C, 8 P) P. People from Amsterdam (15 C, 93 P) R. Rijksmonuments in Amsterdam (103 P) Pages in category "History of Amsterdam"
The end of the Golden Age saw Amsterdam diminish to the same level of economic importance as Antwerp. The latter had barely been able to establish itself as the main centre of trade in the Southern Netherlands, continually under pressure from Western Europe's new powerhouses: the much larger cities of Paris and London.