#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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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.

What If Belgium and the Netherlands Had Remained One Country? By Nick OttensThis article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our partnership with Never Was. For more articles like this please check out thei...

Originally published in "Never Was" magazine, Nick Ottens looks at the #WhatIf moments of the #DutchRevolt and the #EightyYearsWar - could #Belgium and the #Netherlands have remained one country? #AlternateHistory #Counterfactual #LowCountries #Benelux www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-if...

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.

Pinksterzaan, Zaanse Schans, June 9, 2025 with Compagnie te Voet.

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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

Maurits Fest in IJzendijke, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Zeeland, NL. May 18, 2025, celebrating Prince Maurits of Orange who died 400 years ago this year. #eightyyearswar

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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Alessandro Farnese, Duca di Parma, Piacenza e Castro, died on the 3rd of December 1592, aged 47.
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Ok sorry have to share another of these #Grol #Groenlo
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As far as #earlymodern reenactment goes, this is as amazing and awesome as you can get. Just stunning pictures!
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🎨Jan Martszen de Jonge - Three Cavalrymen in battle/ Drie ruiters in gevecht (1619 - 1649)

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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)

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Rezensiert von Olaf Mörke (Historisches Seminar, Universität Kiel)
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