History and culture

Before the common era

1. 3700 BCE Earliest human traces Curaçao

5th century

1. 450–1500 Caquetío settlements Curaçao

12th century

1. 1139 Gouwe first mentioned Gouda

13th century

1. 1272 City rights from Floris V Gouda

14th century

1. 1350 Moats dug, city boundary fixed Gouda
2. 1361–1384 Castle of Gouda built Gouda
3. 1361 Great fire Gouda
4. 1392–1897 Joseon dynasty founded South Korea

15th century

1. 1438 Second great fire Gouda
2. 1446 Hangul promulgated South Korea
3. 1448–1450 Gothic city hall Gouda
4. 1450–1568 Beer and cloth town Gouda
5. 1473 Erasmus at school in Gouda Gouda
6. 1499 Alonso de Ojeda arrives Curaçao

16th century

1. 1515 Caquetío enslaved Curaçao
2. 1527 Spanish settlement Curaçao
3. 1530–1603 The Goudse Glazen Gouda
4. 1552 Sint-Janskerk burns and is rebuilt Gouda
5. 1568–1648 Dutch Revolt begins Netherlands
6. 1572 Gouda joins the Revolt Gouda
7. 1579 Union of Utrecht Netherlands
8. 1581 Act of Abjuration Netherlands
9. 1588–1672 The Dutch Golden Age Netherlands
10. 1592–1598 Imjin War South Korea
11. 1595–1597 De Houtman brothers sail to the East Indies Gouda

17th century

1. 1602 Dutch East India Company (VOC) founded Netherlands
2. 1607 Jamestown founded United States
3. 1617 Clay pipe industry begins Gouda
4. 1619 First enslaved Africans in Virginia United States
5. 1620 Mayflower and Plymouth Colony United States
6. 1621 Dutch West India Company (WIC) chartered Netherlands
7. 1634 Dutch West India Company takes Curaçao Curaçao
8. 1635 Fort Amsterdam and Willemstad Curaçao
9. 1636–1637 Qing invasion South Korea
10. 1637 Tulip mania collapses Netherlands
11. 1642–1644 Peter Stuyvesant governor Curaçao
12. 1648 Peace of Münster Netherlands
13. 1651 Sephardic Jewish congregation Curaçao
14. 1662–1795 Hub of the Atlantic slave trade Curaçao
15. 1667–1668 The Waag for cheese weighing Gouda
16. 1672 Rampjaar, the disaster year Netherlands
17. 1673 Worst plague epidemic Gouda
18. 1674 Free port Curaçao

18th century

1. 1775–1783 American Revolutionary War United States
2. 1776 Declaration of Independence United States
3. 1787 Constitution United States
4. 1787 Princess Wilhelmina stopped at Goejanverwellesluis Gouda
5. 1795–1806 Batavian Republic Netherlands
6. 1795 Tula slave revolt Curaçao

19th century

1. 1800–1816 British occupations Curaçao
2. 1803 Louisiana Purchase United States
3. 1810 First stroopwafels Gouda
4. 1812 Refuge in the Latin American wars of independence Curaçao
5. 1815 United Kingdom of the Netherlands Netherlands
6. 1830–1839 Belgian Revolution Netherlands
7. 1830 Indian Removal Act United States
8. 1830–1854 City walls demolished Gouda
9. 1846–1848 Mexican–American War United States
10. 1848 Constitution of 1848 Netherlands
11. 1853 Stearine candle factory Gouda
12. 1855 Railway to Utrecht and Rotterdam Gouda
13. 1861–1865 Civil War United States
14. 1863 Slavery abolished Curaçao
15. 1863 Slavery abolished in Suriname and the Antilles Netherlands
16. 1863 Emancipation Proclamation United States
17. 1869 Transcontinental railroad United States
18. 1876 Treaty of Ganghwa South Korea
19. 1897–1910 Korean Empire South Korea
20. 1898 Gouda pottery Gouda
21. 1898 Spanish–American War United States

20th century

1. 1905 Japanese protectorate South Korea
2. 1910–1945 Japanese rule South Korea
3. 1915 Shell builds the Isla refinery Curaçao
4. 1917 Pacification of 1917 Netherlands
5. 1917–1918 Enters World War I United States
6. 1919 March 1st Movement South Korea
7. 1920 Women's suffrage United States
8. 1929–1939 Wall Street Crash and Great Depression United States
9. 1929 Raid on Fort Amsterdam Curaçao
10. 1932 Afsluitdijk closes the Zuiderzee Netherlands
11. 1933–1939 New Deal United States
12. 1940–1945 German invasion and occupation Netherlands
13. 1941 February strike Netherlands
14. 1941–1945 Pearl Harbor and World War II United States
15. 1942 Deportation of Dutch Jews Netherlands
16. 1942 Jews of Gouda deported Gouda
17. 1942 U-boat attacks on the oil hub Curaçao
18. 1944 Station bombed Gouda
19. 1944–1945 Hunger Winter Netherlands
20. 1945 Atomic bombs and the UN United States
21. 1945 Liberation and division South Korea
22. 1945 Liberation Netherlands
23. 1947–1991 Cold War begins United States
24. 1948 Republic of Korea founded South Korea
25. 1949 Indonesian independence recognised Netherlands
26. 1949 Founding member of NATO Netherlands
27. 1950–1953 Korean War United States
28. 1950–1953 Korean War South Korea
29. 1951 European Coal and Steel Community Netherlands
30. 1953 North Sea flood Netherlands
31. 1954 Brown v. Board of Education United States
32. 1954 Charter for the Kingdom Curaçao
33. 1956 Gouda by Candlelight Gouda
34. 1957 Treaties of Rome Netherlands
35. 1959 Groningen gas field discovered Netherlands
36. 1960 April Revolution South Korea
37. 1961 Park Chung-hee seizes power South Korea
38. 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis United States
39. 1962 Growth miracle begins South Korea
40. 1964 Civil Rights Act United States
41. 1965 Relations with Japan normalised South Korea
42. 1965–1973 Vietnam War United States
43. 1968 Expansion: Bloemendaal Gouda
44. 1969 Moon landing United States
45. 1969 Trinta di Mei uprising Curaçao
46. 1973 Heavy and chemical industry drive South Korea
47. 1974 Watergate: Nixon resigns United States
48. 1975 Suriname independent Netherlands
49. 1977 Pig market ends, cheese market stays Gouda
50. 1980 Gwangju Uprising South Korea
51. 1985 Shell leaves, PDVSA leases the refinery Curaçao
52. 1987 June Democratic Struggle South Korea
53. 1988 Seoul Olympics South Korea
54. 1991 End of the Cold War United States
55. 1992 Maastricht Treaty Netherlands
56. 1993 The web goes mainstream United States
57. 1996 Joins the OECD South Korea
58. 1997 Asian financial crisis South Korea
59. 1997 Willemstad on the World Heritage list Curaçao

21st century

1. 2000 First inter-Korean summit South Korea
2. 2001 September 11 attacks United States
3. 2001 First country with same-sex marriage Netherlands
4. 2002 Euro cash replaces the guilder Netherlands
5. 2002 Pim Fortuyn assassinated Netherlands
6. 2002 World Cup co-host South Korea
7. 2007 Papiamentu an official language Curaçao
8. 2008 Financial crisis United States
9. 2008 Barack Obama elected United States
10. 2010 Country within the Kingdom Curaçao
11. 2010 Netherlands Antilles dissolved Netherlands
12. 2012 Gangnam Style South Korea
13. 2013 Helmin Wiels murdered Curaçao
14. 2013 Willem-Alexander becomes king Netherlands
15. 2017 President Park impeached South Korea
16. 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics South Korea
17. 2019 Refinery stops Curaçao
18. 2020 COVID-19 pandemic United States
19. 2020 Parasite wins Best Picture South Korea
20. 2021 Capitol attack United States
21. 2022 Gouda 750 Gouda
22. 2024–2025 Martial law crisis South Korea