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| 1608 |
| | | Rubens returns from Italy to Antwerp, where he soon establishes Europe's most successful and prolific studio | |
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| 1608 |
| | | A shipload of Puritans, among them some of the future Pilgrim Fathers, sail from Boston in Lincolnshire to seek religious freedom in Holland | |
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| 1618 |
| | | The 19-year-old Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck is employed by Rubens in Antwerp as his chief assistant | |
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| c. 1700 |
| | | Holland and England are now producing the magnificent ocean-going merchant vessels known as East Indiamen | |
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| 1714 |
| | | In the aftermath of the War of the Spanish Succession, the Spanish Netherlands are transferred to Austria | |
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| 1746 |
| | | The French commander Maurice de Saxe succeeds in occupying the entire Austrian Netherlands | |
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| 1792 |
| | | After their success at Valmy, French republican armies overrun much of the Austrian Netherlands | |
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| 1815 |
| | | The English and Prussian generals Wellington and Blücher defeat Napoleon in a closely fought battle at Waterloo | |
|  | Sketch map of the positions of the armies at Waterloo
National Archives, Kew
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| 1815 |
| | | Jacques-Louis David, unmistakably identified as Napoleon's painter, is banished from France after the fall of the emperor and moves to Brussels | |
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| 1873 |
| | | Verlaine is sentenced to two years in prison, at Mons in Belgium, after shooting and wounding Rimbaud in a drunken rage in Brussels | |
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