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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...
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    unprepared for the invasion by Louis XIV of France in 1672, the infamous Rampjaar. Their killing, which took place on 20 August 1672, was an act of aggression...
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    Graeff, he controlled the Dutch political system from around 1650 until the Rampjaar (Disaster Year) of 1672. This progressive cooperation between the two statesmen...
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    first bear raider, Isaac le Maire. In 1672 – known in Dutch history as the Rampjaar (Disaster Year) – the Dutch Republic was attacked by France, England and...
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    University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-4721-1208-1. Panhuysen, Luc (2009). Rampjaar 1672: Hoe de Republiek aan de ondergang ontsnapte (in Dutch). Uitgeverij...
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    temporarily fell to the French invasion in 1672 (the Disaster Year, Dutch: Rampjaar). The French invasion was stopped just west of Utrecht at the Old Hollandic...
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    The Dutch had been engaged in the struggle to contain France since the Rampjaar (Disaster Year) of 1672, when the Dutch Republic had nearly been overrun...
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    power. The year 1672 is known in the Netherlands as the "Disaster Year" (Rampjaar). England declared war on the Republic, (the Third Anglo-Dutch War), followed...
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    Dutch States Party, and was in opposition to the House of Orange. In the Rampjaar of 1672 he was lynched together with his brother Johan de Witt by a crowd...
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    prohibitions, like the Act of Seclusion. But they were unsuccessful, and the Rampjaar ("Year of Disaster") of 1672 brought about the fall of the De Witt regime...
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    For the Dutch Republic, 1672 proved calamitous. It became known as the Rampjaar ("disaster year") because in the Franco-Dutch War and the Third Anglo-Dutch...
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    Amsterdam Regents during the late 1660s and the early 1670s before the Rampjaar 1672. As president-bewindhebber of the Dutch East India Company, he was...
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    and Johannes Vermeer. In 1672, a severe economic downturn known as the Rampjaar struck the Dutch Republic, after French troops led by Louis XIV invaded...
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    the declining art market in the Dutch Republic, following the onerous Rampjaar, which hugely strained the economy and all facets of Dutch cultural activity...
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    nearly overran the Netherlands, an event remembered in Dutch history as the Rampjaar, or "Disaster Year". However, by late July their position had stabilised...
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    2023-06-27. Prins, Linda (2022-02-14). "De buitenplaatsen van Breukelen in het rampjaar (The mansions in Breukelen in the Disaster Year)". Dag van het kasteel...
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    feeling during the catastrophic events of 1672, the Dutch Year of Disaster (Rampjaar), when the future William III of England was swept to power. After the...
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  • mockumentary discussing the events of the year. List of Latin phrases Rampjaar, the Dutch "disaster year" of 1672 The Islamic year 311 AH (923/924 CE)...
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    their invasion of the Dutch Republic; hence 1672 becomes known as het rampjaar ("the disaster year") in the Netherlands. June 7 – Third Anglo-Dutch War...
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    van Nederhorst, to help with the treaty negotiations at Munster. In the rampjaar 1672, he was sent to London to try to convince the English to desist from...
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    from 1588, when the Dutch Republic was established, to 1672, when the Rampjaar occurred. During this period, Dutch trade, scientific developments, art...
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    destroyed or seriously damaged by French troops in 1672/1673 during the Rampjaar (Disaster Year) in the Franco-Dutch War. In this Guerre de Hollande the...
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  • Netherlands, managed to stop the advances of the French troops in the Rampjaar 1672, providing the Dutch with the needed time to gain the upper hand....
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    William now worried he might face an Anglo-French alliance like during the Rampjaar, despite assurances by James he had no intention of doing so. Historians...
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    and Jacob de Graeff) played with the young William. In 1674, after the rampjaar, Jacob de Graeff sold the property for the low price of 18,755 guilders...
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    Netherlands had been attacked by the French army in 1672, known as the rampjaar, and the ensuing Franco-Dutch War would only be concluded by the Treaties...
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  • University of Nijmegen 1655–1680 Nijmegen closed in the aftermath of the 1672 rampjaar University of Theology and Pastorate 1966-1999 Heerlen Private: merged...
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    Dutch Golden Age, during the First Stadtholderless Period from 1650 to the Rampjaar 1672, political power within Holland rested primarily with two republican...
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    Brouwer, Judith (July 2, 2014). "Levenstekens: Gekaapte brieven uit het Rampjaar 1672". Uitgeverij Verloren – via Google Books. Ankum WM, Houtzager HL,...
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    from 1588, when the Dutch Republic was established, to 1672, when the Rampjaar occurred. During this period, Dutch trade, scientific developments, art...
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