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2006 - Amsterdam Film eXperience begins. 2007 KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival begins. Diamond Museum Amsterdam opens. Centrale Bibliotheek moves into new building. Amsterdam City Archives relocates to De Bazel building. De Schreeuw memorial erected in the Oosterpark. [43] 2008 - Amsterdam Holendrecht railway station opens. 2009 - H'ART ...
At that time, Amsterdam was the third largest city in Europe and the financial center of the world (including with the Bank of Amsterdam and the family's private bank Deutz of Deutz van Assendelft). The Tulip mania from 1630 to 1637 was the first large speculative bubble, a house in Amsterdam was sold for only three tulip bulbs .
It found its impetus in the designs of Hendrick de Keyser, who was instrumental in establishing a Venetian-influenced style into early 17th-century architecture through new buildings like the Noorderkerk ("Northern church", 1620–1623) and Westerkerk ("Western church", 1620–1631) in Amsterdam.
1986 – The Lloyd's Building in London, designed by Richard Rogers, is completed. 1985 – The HSBC Headquarters Building in Hong Kong, China by Norman Foster, is completed. 1984 – Philip Johnson's AT&T Building opens in New York City; 1983 – Xanadu House in Kissimmee opened. 1982 – Design competition is held for the Parc de la Villette ...
1565: Spanish slaughter French 'heretics' at Fort Caroline. 1565: Spanish found Saint Augustine, Florida. (Mission Nombre de Dios) 1566–1587: Spanish in South Carolina (Charlesfort-Santa Elena site). 1568: Dutch revolt against Spain begins. The economic model developed in the Netherlands would define colonial policies in the next two centuries.
The Oude Kerk (English: Old Church) is Amsterdam's oldest building and newest art institute (since 2012). The building was founded about 1213 and consecrated in 1306 by the bishop of Utrecht with Saint Nicolas as its patron saint. After the Reformation in 1578, it became a Calvinist church, which it remains today.
Amsterdam has three main theatre buildings. Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam's best-known theatre Royal Theater Carré, It was originally meant as a permanent circus building. The Stadsschouwburg at the Leidseplein is the home base of Toneelgroep Amsterdam. The current building dates from 1894. Most plays are performed in the Grote Zaal (Great Hall).
Amsterdam in 1657 began to construct fortifications to protect its fourth and largest 17th-century city expansion. This was one of the most ambitious construction projects undertaken in the 17th-century Dutch republic. Supporting the heavy walls on the porous Amsterdam soil required large numbers of deep foundation piles and retaining walls.