Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The years 1579–1588 constituted a phase of the Eighty Years' War (c. 1568–1648) between the Spanish Empire and the United Provinces in revolt after most of them concluded the Union of Utrecht on 23 January 1579, and proceeded to carve the independent Dutch Republic out of the Habsburg Netherlands.
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
Groenveld (2009) regarded 1572–1576 as one of the most violent periods of the Eighty Years' War. [ note 1 ] By contrast, the 1576–1579 phase represented 'three years of moderation'. [ 7 ] Mulder et al. (2008) chose a different periodisation for the years 1572 to 1576: "Oppression and resistance, 1567–1573" and "The North on the way to ...
The Battle of Langside was fought on 13 May 1568 between forces loyal to Mary, Queen of Scots, and forces acting in the name of her infant son James VI.Mary’s short period of personal rule ended in 1567 in recrimination, intrigue, and disaster when, after her capture at Carberry Hill, she was forced to abdicate in favour of James VI.
April 23 – Eighty Years' War: The Battle of Dahlen takes place in the Duchy of Jülich near the modern-day Rheindahlen borough in the German city of Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia. Spanish troops, commanded by Sancho d'Avila , overwhelm a larger force of Dutch rebels led by Jean de Montigny, Lord of Villers.
The victims were not necessarily only Protestants. For instance, the Counts of Egmont and Horne, executed for treason on 5 June 1568, protested their Catholic orthodoxy on the scaffold. [26] Egmont and Horne were arrested for high treason, condemned, and a year later beheaded on the Grand-Place in Brussels. Egmont and Horne had been Catholic ...
The Battle of Heiligerlee (Heiligerlee, Groningen, 23 May 1568) [4] was fought between Dutch rebels and the Spanish army of Friesland. It was the first Dutch victory during the Eighty Years' War . The Groningen province of the Spanish Netherlands was invaded by an army consisting of 3,900 infantry, led by Louis of Nassau , and 200 cavalry, led ...
The Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) — the secession war in which the Dutch Republic gained independence from Habsburg Spain The main article for this category is Eighty Years' War . Subcategories