Netherlands events

  • Jan 1, 1170

    First All Saints' Flood inudated Netherlands and Zuider Zee region

  • Jan 17, 1212

    Large flood at Noordholland killed 60,000

  • Jan 17, 1219

    St. Marcellus Flood killed 36,000

  • Jan 17, 1287

    Zuider Zee seawall collapsed; 50,000 died

  • Jan 17, 1299

    Count of Holland gained control of Zeeland

  • Jan 17, 1300

    French Dukes of Burgundy united all of the Low Countries

  • Jan 17, 1301

    Holland defeated Lichtenberg at Battle of Breukelen

  • Jan 17, 1345

    Frisian defeated Dutch at Warns

  • Jan 17, 1362

    Storm surge kills 25,000; sixty parishes destroyed in Slesvig