Rampjaar: the Dutch disaster year
1672 · Event
France, England and two German bishoprics attack at once; the De Witt brothers are lynched by an Orangist mob, the polders are flooded in defence, and young William III takes charge.
On these timelines: The Low Countries, Master, France
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