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Years: 1576 - 1576
November
...mutinying Spanish tercios, a fearsome mixed infantry formation of pikemen and musketeers, tired of fighting in numeric inferiority against rebel troops, without a rest and without their salary, had decided to "pay themselves" by looting Antwerp, the cultural, economic and financial center of the Netherlands.
The raging Spanish soldiers, invading Antwerp on November 4, had subjected the city to three days of cruelty and destruction, slaughtering seven to eight thousand citizens in a massacre that will soon come to be known as the “Spanish Fury.”
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- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Holland, County of
- Zeeland, County of
- Netherlands, Habsburg
- Calvinists
- Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of
- Geuzen (the Beggars)
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- Protestant Reformation
- Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival)
- Eighty Years War (Netherlands, or Dutch, War of Independence)
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Years: 1576 - 1576
November
Locations
People
Groups
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Holland, County of
- Zeeland, County of
- Netherlands, Habsburg
- Calvinists
- Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of
- Geuzen (the Beggars)
Topics
- Protestant Reformation
- Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival)
- Eighty Years War (Netherlands, or Dutch, War of Independence)
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions