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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 .
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".
Disasters in the Netherlands by year (32 C) * Disasters in the Dutch Caribbean (6 C) E. Emergency management in the Netherlands (1 C, 5 P) F. Fires in the Netherlands ...
2010s disasters in the Netherlands (4 C) 2020s disasters in the Netherlands (5 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 30 October 2022, at 21:51 (UTC). Text is ...
In 2018 a Dutch documentary titled Stormvloed in De Schelphoek ("Storm surge in the Schelphoek") was released. The book The Little Ark by Jan de Hartog, published in 1953, depicted the flood. It was adapted as a film by the same name in 1972. The short story "The Netherlands Lives with Water", [40] by Jim Shepard, contains a passage describing ...
In the end, the dyke held. The Dutch government declared the flooding to be an official disaster. More than 10,000 people were evacuated in Venlo and the neighbouring communities Belfeld, Steyl and Arcen on the same evening. [89] [90] The VieCuri Hospital in Venlo was also evacuated as a precaution against flooding from the Maas. A total of 240 ...