• 2022
Het Rampjaar 1672

Summary Disaster year 1672 of the Dutch Republic: the people were senseless, the government distraught and the country hopeless. But what exactly happened and how could it get so out of hand? View more details

  • 2022

Het Rampjaar 1672

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Hans Goedkoop

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7.9

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Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Oct 20, 2022

Countries of origin : Netherlands

Official sites : Official site (NTR)

Language : Dutch

Production companies : NTR

Summary Disaster year 1672 of the Dutch Republic: the people were senseless, the government distraught and the country hopeless. But what exactly happened and how could it get so out of hand? View more details

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Oct 20, 2022

Countries of origin : Netherlands

Official sites : Official site (NTR)

Language : Dutch

Production companies : NTR

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Het Rampjaar 1672 (2022)

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Episode 1 • Dec 31, 1969
Episode #1.1
After the Eighty Years War against Spain was ended by the Westphalian Peace treaties, the patrician regents -mainly the city of Amsterdam, which dominated the states (parliament) of predominant Holland, hence the Dutch state general- were no longer prepared to pay for a large permanent army, hence compromised the power base of the house of Orange, the virtual hereditary generals in chief. The stadtholder William II used military force to imprison hostile mayors and even laid siege to the city, however clumsily, to force them to vote a sufficient budget anyhow. After his fatal illness, his widow Mary Stuart and minor son and heir William III were removed from political prominence, the office of stadtholder completely suspended, even their palatial dominance in the Ridderhof in the Hague symbolically overshadowed by the new Holland States offices taking over the top floor.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
Episode #1.3
At the peek of its power, the Dutch republic got very rich from trade and colonies and were governed by the self-made 'regent' patricians, with 'council pensioner' Jan De Wit as able leader, leaving the prince of Oragne idle even aged 20. Those assumed a regal lifestyle, keeping wealth and power in the families, managed to conclude a triple alliance with Enhland and Sweden, to stop a French invasion annexing the Spanish (southern) Netherlands except for trifle parts, which Louis XIV claimed due to his Habsburg marriage. The French king, able paragon of absolutism and claiming French hegemony, already hated the notion of a republic as opposite to his god-given kingship, now swore revenge at all cost. While he concluded the secret Dover treaty with England, which sought revenge for the Chatham nightmare, trained Europe's largest army and made other preparations, the Dutch ambassador remained blind to the 'unthinkable' danger. When it finally dawned on The Hague, the neglected army was in state nor number, so they hastily recruited and had to follow popular acclaim to reinstate the captain-general office for William III of Orange, despite his military inexperience. Louis took half his court and glorifying propaganda means along on a campaign meant to annex the Netherlands by walkover, yet was met with surprising resistance from the local militia crossing the Rhine at Lobith, from Germany.
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