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Jacob Dircksz de Graeff (1570–1638), Amsterdam burgomaster and regent, statesman; Lenaert Jansz de Graeff (around 1525/30-before 1578), one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation in Amsterdam, captain of the Sea Beggars; Pieter de Graeff (1638–1707), Amsterdam patrician, politician; brother-in-law of Johan de Witt; Glennis Grace (born ...
1563–1570 Northern Seven Years' War; 1565 Great Siege of Malta; 1566 Siege of Szigetvár; 1568–1570 Morisco Revolt; 1568–1648 Eighty Years' War; 1569–1580 Spanish-Ottoman War – 48,000 killed in action [1] 1569–1570 Rising of the North; 1569–1573 First Desmond Rebellion; 1573 Croatian–Slovene Peasant Revolt; 1578 Georgian-Ottoman War
Amsterdam drawn from the IJ in 1538, by Cornelis Anthoniszoon. This is the oldest city map of Amsterdam. It shows the completed medieval city with defensive wall and gates. Amsterdam has a long and eventful history. The origins of the city lie around 1000 CE, [1] [2] when inhabitants settled at the mouth of the Amstel and began peatland ...
After the death of Elizabeth I, Anglo-Spanish relations began to improve under the new monarch of James the First, and the peace of the Treaty of London in 1604 ended most privateering actions, (until the outbreak of the next Anglo-Spanish War (1625-1630) during the larger continental Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648).
The first fifty years (1568 through 1618) were a war solely between Catholic Spain and the Protestant rebels of the Netherlands. It was a military conflict with integral religious elements. During the last thirty years (1618–1648) the conflict between Spain and the Netherlands was submerged in the general European War that became known as the ...
1968 Protest against the Vietnam War in Amsterdam, April 1968. Art & Project gallery opens. Theaterschool founded. [42] 1969 March: Bed-In for Peace held. [43] May: Student protest occurs at the University of Amsterdam Maagdenhuis . [4] STEIM cultural venue established. 1970 - Population: 807,095. 1971 - Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA railway station ...
Anne Frank (1929–1945), diarist in World War II Amsterdam; Harry Gideonse (1901–1985), American President of Brooklyn College, and Chancellor of the New School for Social Research; Alfred Henry (Freddy) Heineken (1923–2002), commercial mastermind of the Heineken Imperium; grandson of the founder of Heineken; Mata Hari (1876–1917), spy
Franco-Swedish War (1805–1810) France Spanish Empire Holland: Sweden United Kingdom Prussia: Victory: Ashanti–Fante War (1806–1807) Ashanti Empire Batavian Republic: Fante Confederacy United Kingdom: Victory: War of the Fourth Coalition (1806–1807) French Empire French satellites: Confederation of the Rhine: Bavaria Württemberg; Saxony [1]