1672 in the Netherlands

Events from the year 1672 in the Dutch Republic

Events

• Siege of Groningen
• Siege of Groenlo
• Battle of Solebay
• Rampjaar

Deaths

• January 21 – Adriaen van de Velde, painter (b. 1636) ^[1]
• August 20
  • Cornelis de Witt, politician (b. 1623) ^[2]
  • Johan de Witt, politician (b. 1625) ^[2]
• October 8 – Johan Nieuhof, traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil (b. 1618) ^[3]
• November 16 – Esaias Boursse, painter (b. 1631) ^[4]
• November 19 – Franciscus Sylvius, physician and scientist (b. 1614) ^[5]
• December 30 – Hendrick Bloemaert, painter (b. 1601) ^[6]

References

1. Cornelis, Bart; Schapelhouman, Marijn (2016). Adriaen Van de Velde: Master of the Dutch Landscape. London: Paul Holberton Publishing. ISBN   978-1-907372-96-4.
2. DeSanto, Ingrid Frederika (2018). Righteous Citizens: The Lynching of Johan and Cornelis DeWitt, The Hague, Collective Violens, and the Myth of Tolerance in the Dutch Golden Age, 1650-1672 (Thesis). UCLA.
3. Miller, Peter N.; Krohn, Deborah L.; Filippis, Marybeth De (2009). Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta Van Varick. New York: Bard Graduate Center, Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture. p. 395. ISBN   978-0-300-15467-2.
4. Ingamells, John (1985). The Wallace Collection: Dutch and Flemish. Ann Arbor, MI: Trustees of the Wallace Collection. p. 48. ISBN   978-0900785375.
5. Chen, Thomas S.; Chen, Peter S. (1984). Understanding the Liver: A History. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press. p. 63. ISBN   978-0-313-23472-9.
6. Barnes, Donna R.; Rose, Peter G., eds. (2002). Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in Seventeenth-century Dutch Art and Life. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. p. 44. ISBN   978-0-8156-0747-2.

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