Canon of Dutch History

The Canon of Dutch History is a list of fifty topics that aims to provide a chronological summary of Dutch history to be taught in primary schools and the first two years of secondary school in the Netherlands.[2][3] The fifty topics are divided into fourteen sections.

Canon

The Canon of Dutch History was prepared by a committee headed by Frits van Oostrom and presented to the Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Maria van der Hoeven, on 16 October 2006.

A revised version was presented to the Dutch government on 3 October 2007 and in October 2008 it was agreed to include the canon in the school curriculum by 1 August 2009. An updated version was presented in June 2020.

The canon was designed to provide an overview of "what everyone ought to know, at the very least, about the history and culture of the Netherlands", as well as providing a framework for the teaching of History in Dutch schools.[4] Schools are not obliged to teach the canon, in accordance with the Freedom of education principle incorporated in the Dutch constitution (article 23) that guarantees the right of parents to have their children educated in accordance with their religious and other views.

The website entoen.nu is responsible for developing the canon for use in schools and in society in general.[5]

The 14 sections

  1. The Low Countries by the Sea
  2. On the outer edges of Europe
  3. Conversion to Christianity
  4. The Dutch language
  5. An urban centers and trading centre at the confluence of the Rhine, the Meuse and the Scheldt rivers
  6. The Dutch Republic emerges from an uprising
  7. The flowering of the Golden Age
  8. A trading nation and colonial power
  9. A nation-state under a constitutional monarchy
  10. The rise of modern society
  11. The Netherlands during the time of the world wars from 1914 to 1945
  12. The welfare state, democratisation and secularisation
  13. The diversification of the Netherlands
  14. The Netherlands in Europe

The 50 topics

TopicSectionDateDescription
1Dolmens3c. 3000 BCEEarly farmers
2The Roman limes2, 347 - c. 400On the borders of the Roman empire
3Willibrord3658 - 739Spread of Christianity
4Charlemagne2742 - 814Emperor of the Western world
5Hebban olla vogala ...4c. 1100Earliest fragment of Old Dutch script
6Floris V, Count of Holland61254 - 1296A Dutch Graaf and a discontented nobility
7The Hanseatic League51356 - c. 1450Trading cities in the Low Countries
The 'Printing press' was originally at No. 8 in the first version. In the revised version it was replaced by 'Christiaan Huygens', now at No. 21 in the list.4c. 1450Printing Revolution
8Erasmus31466? - 1536An international humanist
9Charles V2, 61500 - 1558The Low Countries as an administrative unit
10The Beeldenstorm3, 61566Religious conflict
11William the Silent61533 - 1584From rebellious nobleman to 'Father of the Nation'
12The Dutch Republic61588 - 1795An exceptional federal republic
13The Dutch East India Company81602 - 1799Expansion overseas
14The Beemster polder1, 61612The Netherlands and water
15The Grachtengordel5, 61613 - 1662Urban expansion in the seventeenth century
16Hugo Grotius6, 71583 - 1645A pioneer of modern international law
17The Statenbijbel3, 41637The Book of Books
18Rembrandt71606? - 1669The great painters
19The Atlas Maior of Joan Blaeu7, 81662Mapping the world
20Michiel de Ruyter71607 - 1676Naval heroes and Dutch naval power
21Christiaan Huygens71629-1695Science in the Dutch Golden Age
22Spinoza71632 - 1677Seeking the truth
23Slavery8c. 1637 - 1863Trafficking and forced labour in the New World
24Buitenplaatsen7, 917th and 18th centurySummer residences in the country
25Eise Eisinga91744 - 1828The Enlightenment in the Netherlands
26The Patriots91780 - 1795Crisis in the Republic
27Napoleon Bonaparte91769 - 1821The Kingdom of Holland
28William I91772 - 1843The United Kingdom of the Netherlands
29The first railway101839The Industrial Revolution
30The Dutch constitution91848A state's most important law
31Max Havelaar4, 81860Protest against colonial abuse in the Dutch East Indies
32Opposition to child labour1019th centuryOut of factories and into schools
33Vincent van Gogh101853 - 1890Modern art
34Aletta Jacobs10, 121854 - 1929Emancipation of women
35The First World War10, 111914 - 1918War and neutrality
36De Stijl111917 - 1931Revolution in Design
37Crisis years111929 - 1940Society in the Great Depression
38The Second World War111940 - 1945Occupation, resistance and liberation
39Anne Frank111929 - 1945The Holocaust in the Netherlands
40Indonesia11, 131945 - 1949A colony wrests itself free
41Willem Drees121886 - 1988The welfare state
42The watersnood1, 121 February 1953The perils of a low-lying country
43Television12from 1948A breakthrough in media technologies
44Port of Rotterdam12from c. 1880Gateway to the world
45Annie M.G. Schmidt4, 121911 - 1995Going against the grain in a bourgeois society
46Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles13from 1945The West decolonises
47Srebrenica141995The dilemmas of peacekeeping
48Veelkleurig Nederland13from 1945A multicultural society
49Natural gas121959 - 2030?A dwindling resource
50Europe14from 1945Netherlands and the European Union

Members of the Committee

See also

References

  1. "Floris eruit, Marga Klompé erin: de nieuwe Canon van Nederland". nos.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  2. "Wat is de Canon van Nederland?" [What is the Canon of Dutch History?] (in Dutch). Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (Netherlands). Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  3. Frits van Oostrom, Hubert Slings, ed. (2007). A Key to Dutch History (PDF). Amsterdam University Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-90-5356-498-1.
  4. "Entoen.nu: Canon van de Nederlandse geschiedenis" [Entoen.nu: Canon of Dutch history]. VKbanen (in Dutch). 2008-10-13. Archived from the original on 2012-03-13.
  5. "entoen.nu". entoen.nu. Retrieved 2011-12-24.
  6. "Over entoen.nu" [About entoen.nu].
  7. "Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland" [Online Women's Dictionary of the Netherlands] (in Dutch). Inghist.nl. 2011-04-29. Retrieved 2011-12-24.
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