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Rotterdam

Dam on the Rotte turned Europe's largest port; its heart was erased in one afternoon in 1940 and rebuilt modern.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1270 CE mainstream
  a dam is built in the river Rotte source
• 1340 CE mainstream
  city rights from Count Willem IV (7 July) source
• 1872 CE mainstream
  the Nieuwe Waterweg opens the port to the sea source
• 1940 CE mainstream
  the Rotterdam Blitz of 14 May destroys the centre; ~900 dead, 80,000 homeless source
• 1953 CE mainstream
  the Lijnbaan opens — Europe's first car-free shopping street source

Where

51.9200° N, 4.4800° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotterdam
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieuwe_Waterweg
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotterdam_Blitz
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijnbaan

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