500-600AD.
804
800-850

1150

1152
1200
1200-1250
1348-1351
1417
1530
1544

1567-1609

1588
1591
1592
1605
1616
1618-1648

1630-31
1636
1668
1700
1701
1733
1753
1756-1763
1772
1789
1792
1801
1803
1806
1807-1809
1813
1815

1816
1821
1824
1832
1838


1845
1846-1847
1847
1848
1849
1866

1871
1872-73
1880-1882
1889
1896
1903
1914-1918
1921
1923
1925
1929-31
1933
1934
1939-1945
1946
1952

Germanic tribes settle in area.
Saxon tribes loose their independence.
Charlemagne introduces Christianity with the sword. Founding of the scholten system. Emlichheim, Uelsen, Veldhausen and Nordhorn become church and court districts.
The Counts of Bentheim participate in the Crusades. Sophia von Rhienech, mother of Otto the IV of Bentheim was buried in Jerusalem in 1176.
Founding of the monastery of Wietmarschen.
The River Vechte becomes a trade route to the Netherlands.
The church in Emlichheim receives a baptismal fount of stone which is still in use today.
Pestilence in the county.
Church district Uelsen comes under the Bistum of Uetrecht in the Netherlands.
Anabaptist movements in the county concentrating in Emlichheim.
The Catholic Churches in the county become Lutheran. Church membership is like citizenship. Mass no longer served. Only communion and baptism recognized as sacraments.
The Netherlands fights a war of independence against Spain. Bentheim is neutral but still loses much property because the Spanish do not recognize the borders.
The count of Bentheim and his people turn to the Reformed faith.
The parish of Veldhausen reports 40,000 thaler damage caused by Spanish troops.
Spanish troops enter Emlichheim demanding lodging.
School system introduced.
Latin taught in Neuenhaus.
Thirty Year War. Troops from all over Europe demand lodging and food. The people are drained and poor. The churches become places of refuge instead of worship.
Crop failure.
Pestilence through out the whole land.
Ernst Wilhelm, the count of Bentheim returns to the Catholic Church, the people remain Reformed.
Trade over the River Vechte starts increasing.
Peace treaty at DenHaag settles the issue of succession for the counts of Bentheim.
Smoking of tobacco becomes legal.
The county is mortgaged by the King of Hanover and England.
Seven Year War with Prussia.
Extremely dry year leads to much hunger.
French Revolution.
Postal system introduced.
Peace between England and France.
French troops overrun the county demanding food and lodging.
French government takes over the county.
French soldiers build the road from Emlichheim to Neuenhaus.
The county liberated and returned to Hanover and England.
The Battle Of Waterloo.  Six hundred Bentheimers fight Napoleon under the English
commander Wellington.
Men return from the Battle of Waterloo.
Census taken in the county.
Grade schools teach Dutch and German.
Beginning of the Separatist movement in the parish of Uelsen.
Founding of the first Old Reformed Church (in the parish of Uelsen at the house of a farmer
named Huisken in Itterbeck). Rev. Albertus van Raalte of the Netherlands who later found Holland,
Michigan helped.
Founding of the Old Reformed Church in Emlichheim.
Severe crop failures.
First large group of immigrants leave for North America from the Emlichheim - Hoogstede area.
Revolutions in Europe.
Founding of the Old Reformed Church in Veldhausen.
The county becomes part of Prussia. The end of the American Civil War and the desire to avoid the Prussian draft send a new wave of immigrants.
Prussians found a new Germany.
New Prussian civil laws take effect.
A new wave of emigration.
Very dry year - crop failures.
Railroad system introduced.
Beginning of the Agricultural School in Neuenhaus.
First World War.
Electricity introduced.
Inflation - all money becomes worthless.
Beginning of a high school in Nordhorn.
Depression.
Hitler rises to power.
General Hindenburg dies. Hitler takes over government.
Second World War.
The county takes in refugees from Eastern Germany. In some places there is one refugee for every 2 natives.
Again immigrants begin to leave for the United States and Canada.