Renaissance · Europe · Technology

1530

Dutch Land Reclamation Expands

1530

Water boards in Holland and Zeeland expanded their dike-building and polder-draining projects, turning shallow lakes into fertile farmland. The new technologies of windmill-powered drainage were transforming the Low Countries into the densest agricultural landscape in Europe, and the most precarious. Dutch hydraulic engineering would later be exported worldwide, from the English Fens to Jakarta, becoming a global expertise.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1529: Peace of Cambrai
After: October 11, 1531: Zwingli Killed at Kappel

Before and after in Technology

Before: 1521: Portuguese Introduce Maize to China
After: 1539: First Printing Press in the Americas

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.