A small incident outside the Antwerp cathedral…

August 1566 CE

A small incident outside the Antwerp cathedral on Assumption of the Virgin day—August 15—in 1566 starts a massive iconoclastic movement by Calvinists, who storm the churches to destroy statues and images of Catholic saints.

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Antwerp > Antwerpen Antwerp Belgium View →

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Margaret View → William I, “the Silent”, Prince of Orange View →

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Netherlands, Habsburg View → Lutheranism View → Calvinists View → Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of View → Geuzen (the Beggars) View →

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Protestant Reformation View → Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival) View →

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Weapons View →

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