Eighty Years' War 1568–1648

Dutch Republic, Kingdom of England, Protestant Union, Huguenots, Kingdom of France ⚔ Spanish Empire, Holy Roman Empire

Key battles

• Battle of Heiligerlee (1568)
• Battle of Jemmingen (1568)
• Siege of Leiden (1574)
• Fall of Antwerp (1584)
• Battle of Zutphen (1586)
• Battle of Nieuwpoort (1600)
• Siege of Ostend (1604)
• Siege of Breda (1624)
• Battle of Guararapes (1649)

Who lived through the Eighty Years' War

Well-known people alive during 1568–1648:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616) — English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
• Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) — Italian polymath (1564–1642)
• René Descartes (1596–1650) — French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
• Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) — Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (1547-1616)
• Molière (1622–1673) — French playwright and actor (1622–1673)
• John Locke (1632–1704) — English philosopher and physician (1632-1704)
• Rembrandt (1606–1669) — Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669)
• Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) — French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
• Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) — Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603
• Francis Bacon (1561–1626) — English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)
• Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) — King of France and of Navarre from 1643 to 1715 (1638-1715)
• Johannes Kepler (1572–1630) — German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
• Benedictus de Spinoza (1632–1677) — Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
• Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) — Flemish painter (1577–1640)
• Akbar (1542–1605) — the third and greatest Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605
• Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) — Spanish painter (1599-1660)
• Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) — English philosopher (1588–1679)
• John Milton (1608–1674) — English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)
• Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) — Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and mathematician (1548–1600)
• Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) — French poet, fabulist and writer (1621–1695)
• Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) — French author, philosopher, and statesman (1533–1592)
• Mimar Sinan (1490–1588) — 16th-century Ottoman chief architect and civil engineer
• Lope de Vega (1562–1635) — Spanish playwright and poet (1562-1635)
• Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) — English military and political leader (1599–1658)
• Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) — Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601

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