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In Dutch history, the year 1672 is referred to as the Rampjaar (pronounced [ˈrɑmpjaːr] ⓘ; Disaster Year). In May 1672, following the outbreak of the Franco-Dutch War and its peripheral conflict the Third Anglo-Dutch War , France , supported by Münster and Cologne , invaded and nearly overran the Dutch Republic .
By Feb. 1, about 770 square miles of southern Holland were inundated, forcing 72,500 Dutch residents to flee their homes. Whole towns were flooded, sending residents scurrying to rooftops to survive.
Category: Disasters in the Netherlands by year. ... 2024 disasters in the Netherlands (1 P) This page was last edited on 30 October 2022, at 21:40 (UTC). ...
Date Place Deaths Details 838 Northwest of the Netherlands (part of Friesland) 2,437 A large part of the northwest of the Netherlands (in that time the land belonged to Frisia – now called Friesland) was flooded by a storm. Lack of good dikes was an important cause of this flood disaster. This flood is also described in the Annales Xantenses ...
Prime Minister Dick Schoof issued a statement expressing shock at the disaster and extending sympathies to victims and emergency responders. [ 2 ] Mayor of The Hague Jan van Zanen stated that the likelihood of finding additional survivors was minimal following initial rescue efforts, telling the community to be ready for the "worst case scenario".
The highest death tolls were recorded on the islands of Schouwen-Duiveland and Goeree-Overflakkee. 305 people drowned in the village of Oude-Tonge. 20-year-old Jos de Boet from Oude-Tonge lost 42 family members in the disaster. [1] 200,000 animals died, 3,500 houses and farms were lost in the flood, and another 43,000 were severely damaged. [20 ...
Initial assessments by experts suggest that the cranes used were adequate for the task, and the disaster was attributed to a broken lifting point. [ 12 ] The victims of the collapse included two individuals not affiliated with the Royal BAM Group, one employed by Belgian construction company Aertssen and the other of Polish nationality.
January 8, 1962 – The Harmelen train disaster, the deadliest railway incident in the history of the Netherlands, occurred when Leeuwarden–Rotterdam express train driver missed a warning signal in fog and passed a red signal to collide nearly head-on with another passenger train from Rotterdam to Amsterdam. Ninety-three people (including ...