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November 12, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Alessandro Farnese, Duca di Parma, Piacenza e Castro, died on the 3rd of December 1592, aged 47.
#history #eightyyearswar
December 3, 2024 at 10:35 PM
We're not just reliving the late Ming, it might be turning into a rerun of the General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century (discuss) #EightyYearsWar #DeTachtigjarigeOorlog
"Verzijlbergh explained that Belgian wind farms have an advantage over Dutch ones. “They are located southwest of the Dutch parks and the wind often comes from the southwest, so you often steal some of our wind,” he said." 😂
Belgians accused of ‘stealing wind’ from the Dutch
May 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
June 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
As far as #earlymodern reenactment goes, this is as amazing and awesome as you can get. Just stunning pictures!
#EightyYearsWar #DutchRevolt #Netherlands #Spain #LowCountries #Habsburg #reenactment #history
One of the biggest re-enactment battles in the Netherlands, with over 1500 participants, is the 1627 siege of Grolle during the 80 years war when the Dutch rose up against the Spanish.
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Full set;
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November 12, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Maurits Fest in IJzendijke, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Zeeland, NL. May 18, 2025, celebrating Prince Maurits of Orange who died 400 years ago this year. #eightyyearswar
May 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In a process paralleling the #PeaceOfWestphalia, a bedrock of state sovereignty, the #PeaceOfMünster was signed #ThisDayInHistory in 1648. (I lectured on it this week, funnily enough.) This treaty ended the #EightyYearsWar, as #Spain recognized independence of the #Netherlands.
January 30, 2026 at 4:30 PM
#OTD On March 12, 1579, the Siege of Maastricht began during the Eighty Years' War. Spanish forces led by the Duke of Parma besieged the city for 111 days. The battle ended with the breach of the walls and a massacre that devastated the city's population.
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March 12, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Find out all about his turbulent life in Defragged History's Eighty Uears War series now available on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.

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April 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🎨Jan Martszen de Jonge - Three Cavalrymen in battle/ Drie ruiters in gevecht (1619 - 1649)

#eightyyearswar #tachtigjarigeoorlog #80yearswar #80jarigeoorlog #guerradelosochentaaños #defraggedhistory
January 10, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Starting on #ThisDayInHistory in 1576, during the #EightyYearsWar, Spanish forces committed major atrocities in the Sack of #Antwerp. The events, sometimes called the #SpanishFury, may have resulted in about 18,000 civilian deaths over three days, galvanizing Dutch resistance.
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Ook een interessante serie om te volgen op YouTube, EightyYearsWar. Zeer uitgebreid en gedetailleerd verslag van de tachtigjarige oorlog.
We vroegen ons een aantal keer hardop af of ze niks beters te doen hadden dan mekaar uitmoorden.
(Whatsnew?!)
March 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Winter landscape with ice skaters on the Hofvijver lake in The Hague, with on the foreground Prince Maurits and Prince Frederick Henry with courtiers, preceded by a group of halberd guardsmen.

Adam van Breen (ca. 1585–ca. 1645)

#eightyyearswar #tachtigjarigeoorlog
January 6, 2024 at 4:10 PM
In “For Once and For All, Episode 3,” authenticators scrutinize a Dutch privateer’s silver plate made from silver plundered from a Spanish armada. These goods turned the tide for the #DutchRepublic in the #EightyYearsWar, leading to independence from the #SpanishEmpire.

#history #museum
September 18, 2026 at 11:32 PM
The Low Countries erupt over taxes, central control, and the suppression of Protestantism. By 1568, the Dutch Revolt breaks out, with William of Orange leading the fight against Philip. #DutchRevolt #EightyYearsWar
August 23, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Eighty Years' War: Siege of Haarlem

Today, July 13, marks 453 years since the end of the Siege of Haarlem, a crucial event…

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https://akerix.com/on-this-day/07-13-guerra-dos-oitenta-anos-o-cerco-de-haarlem-termina-apos-sete-meses-1573
📷 Wikimedia Commons
July 12, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Rezensiert von Olaf Mörke (Historisches Seminar, Universität Kiel)
#Egmont #EightyYearsWar https://x.com/hsozkult/status/1239258331358932993
August 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM