It is this reluctance which was felt by the Rijksmuseum to reattribute works to other painters ( Abraham van Calraet does not even appear in a Museum catalogue until 1926, and even then he is not given his own entry ) which shows how important it is to art historians that painters are accurately connected to their works — and this is continuously necessary for those of Aelbert Cuyp, as Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter may not in fact be Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter.

* November 17 – November 19 – St. Elizabeth flood: The coastal area near Dordrecht in the Netherlands is flooded due to the extremely high tide of the North Sea ; 72 villages are drowned, killing about 10, 000 people.

Dordrecht (), colloquially Dordt, historically in English named Dort, is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland.

Dordrecht is the largest and most important city in the Drechtsteden and is also part of the Randstad, the main conurbation in the Netherlands.

Dordrecht is the oldest city in Holland and has a rich history and culture.

Dordrecht is informally called Dordt by its inhabitants.

For road traffic to Dordrecht there is a ferry to cross the Nieuwe Merwede river.

The Arkel railway station, on the Elst – Dordrecht railway, is situated in the municipality Giessenlanden.

It is connected to Dordrecht by means of the Kil Tunnel.

The Hardinxveld-Giessendam railway station, on the Elst – Dordrecht railway, is situated in the municipality.

The Leerdam railway station is situated on the Elst – Dordrecht railway.

There is a road bridge and, more to the east, a railroad bridge between the train stations Dordrecht Stadspolders and Hardinxveld-Giessendam on the line Dordrecht-Gorinchem.

There is partly a common tariff system with four smaller passenger train operating companies — Syntus and Connexxion in the east, Veolia on the ' Maaslijn ' and ' Heuvellandlijn ' in the south east, Arriva in the north of the country and on the ' Merwede-Lingelijn ' ( from Dordrecht to Geldermalsen ).

There are no bridges or tunnels crossing the Nieuwe Merwede, but there is a car ferry from the Island of Dordrecht on the west at " Kop van't Land " to Brabantse Oever, Werkendam ( Biesbosch ).

It is speculated on slender evidence that he also worked in Dordrecht.

Nicolaas Bloembergen ( born Dordrecht, March 11, 1920 ) is a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate.

By the late 1940s the ' Type 10 ' was ready to be handed over to Philips ' subsidiary Johan de Witt in Dordrecht to be productionised and incorporated into a generator set as originally planned.

In the 12th and 13th centuries, Dordrecht developed into an important market city because of its strategic location.

Dordrecht around 1565, by Jacob van DeventerIn 1572, four years into the Dutch Revolt, representatives of all the cities of Holland, with the exception of Amsterdam, as well as the Watergeuzen, represented by William II de la Marck, gathered in Dordrecht to hold the Eerste Vrije Statenvergadering (" First Assembly of the Free States "), also known as the Unie van Dordrecht (" Union of Dordrecht ").

10, 000 inhabitants ) and the southern part of the municipality of Sliedrecht were incorporated into Dordrecht, making Dordrecht Island one municipality.

It flows from Hardinxveld-Giessendam to Dordrecht, where it splits into the Noord and Oude Maas rivers.

He was the son of Johannes ( Jan ) Vos, a Protestant from the Netherlands, who fled from persecution into the Electorate of the Palatinate and briefly became pastor in the village near Heidelberg where Gerardus ( the Latinized form of Gerrit ) was born, before friction with the strict Lutherans of the Palatinate caused him to settle the following year at the University of Leiden as student of theology, and finally became pastor at Dordrecht, where he died in 1585.

After spending some time in Friesland and in the Electorate of the Palatinate he was in 1570 taken into the service of William, prince of Orange, and in 1572 was sent as his representative to the first meeting of the States-General assembled at Dordrecht.

He came into conflict with the city of Dordrecht and was killed there by a mob on 30 August 1299.

In the event, he took Breda in Brabant and prepared to cross into Holland and capture Dordrecht.

Godfried Schalcken was born in 1643 at Dordrecht, and he studied under Samuel van Hoogstraten in Dordrecht before he moved to Leiden, into the studio of Gerard Dou ( 1613 – 1675 ), one of Rembrandt's most famous pupils.

A second ship canal was created to better distribute the flow of the river Rhine as well: the Nieuwe Merwede, which divides the Biesbosch into two parts: the " lesser " Biesbosch, now the southeastern part of the Island of Dordrecht, and the " greater " Biesbosch.

In 1712, had the Dordrecht Confession of Faith translated into English and printed .< ref >

In June of that year, Dordrecht and Gorkum also fell into their hands.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.

This system is divided into a forest highway system, administered by the Secretary of Commerce, and a forest development road and trail system, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.

The lower number is always divided into the upper number: Af

We divided the country into five regions plus Hawaii and Alaska and in each is included a general description of the area plus specific recommendations of places and events to cover.

Dirt, which is here defined as particulate material which is usually inorganic and is very often extremely finely divided so as to exhibit colloidal properties.

Confused and divided though this tradition may be, it is an important part of the social and cultural heritage of the group, and acts as a means of socialization, particularly for members of the rural community.

Also, the dictionary is divided into at least two parts: the list of dictionary forms and the file of information that pertains to these forms.

How to achieve this objective is a problem, but we are not divided on what we want.

This is a problem, but we are not divided over its importance or by its existence.

This is the Powell Amendment, which in 1957 divided even a `` liberal '' group like the American Veterans Committee ( AVC ).

The book is divided into chapters and in each chapter the material is grouped into Text, Tables, Illustrations, and Bibliography.

World production of about 1 million tons is divided primarily between Africa ( 63 percent ) and South America ( 27 percent ).

Split badly during the recent presidential election into almost equally divided camps of party loyalists and independents, the Democratic party in Mississippi is currently a wreck.

The population of the Congo is 13.5 million, divided into at least seven major `` culture clusters '' and innumerable tribes speaking 400 separate dialects.

The major part of this collection is in the central headquarters building, and the remainder is divided among five libraries in the system designated as subject centers.

In the United States, where anthropology was first defined as a discipline, the field is traditionally divided into four sub-fields: cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology.