Event
Eighty Years' War – Sack of Antwerp: In the Low Countries
4 Nov 1576 · 51.22° N, 4.40° E
What the records say
- When
- 4 Nov 1576
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 51.22° N, 4.40° E
- Description
- Eighty Years' War – Sack of Antwerp: In the Low Countries, mutinous Spanish soldiers sack Antwerp; after three days the city is nearly destroyed.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Sack of Antwerp.
Summary
Eighty Years' War – Sack of Antwerp: In the Low Countries, mutinous Spanish soldiers sack Antwerp; after three days the city is nearly destroyed
5 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Spanische Furie: Antwerpen wird während des Achtzigjährigen Krieges (1568–1648) geplündert und niedergebrannt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “les tercios espagnols mutinés entrent dans Anvers”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “испанская ярость”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Bélgica, los soldados españoles comienzan los tres días de saqueo de Amberes, en que arrasarán la ciudad”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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