* 1609 – Eighty Years ' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce.

In the Martyrdom, Polycarp is recorded as saying on the day of his death, " Eighty and six years I have served him ," which could indicate that he was then eighty-six years old or that he may have lived eighty-six years after his conversion.

Eighty years of steady photonic thrusting would be then required to obtain a final velocity of 240 km / s in this hypothetical case.

Eighty years of Atheistic Soviet rule made Tatars of both confessions not as religious as they were.

The Seven United Provinces known as Netherlands, protagonists of the Eighty years war against Spain from a 1658 map by Janssonius

During the first years of the Eighty Years War ( 1568-1648 ), Heusden was occupied by the Spanish.

Eighty years later, in 1900, the number reached 2, 042, an increase of only 278.

Eighty years later the lands reverted to the ownership of the King's representatives in Ireland.

* Eighty million years without sex

Nowadays, a statue erected on the Petit Sablon / Kleine Zavel Square in Brussels commemorates the Counts of Egmont and Horn, in historical overview usually mentioned together as " Egmond en Hoorne " and hailed as the first leaders of the Dutch revolt, as the predecessors of William of Orange, who grew to importance and obtained the leadership after their execution, and who was assassinated in 1584 in Delft, having succeeded in liberating parts of The Netherlands in the early years of the Eighty Years ' War ( 1568 – 1648 ).

Eighty years later, in 2008, Bottletree Books LLC republished the poem under ISBN 978-1-933747-09-5 and it remains in print today.

In 1913, the East Coast film industry was flourishing and that year he appeared in the film What Eighty Million Women Want, but it would be another 11 years before he appeared on screen again.

The name was more commonly shown as numbers in the earlier years (" Delta 88 ", for example ) and was changed to spell-out " Eighty Eight " starting in 1989.

The 1906 publication of Crosby's own autobiography, Memories of Eighty Years, which, in contrast to Carleton's book focused on Crosby's hymn-writing years, was sold by subscription and door-to-door, and promoted in lectures by Doane, raised $ 1, 000 for Crosby.

Eighty years after Dezhnev, in 1728, another Russian explorer, Danish-born Vitus Bering on Svyatoy Gavriil ( Saint Gabriel ) made a similar voyage in reverse, starting in Kamchatka and going north to the passage that now bears his name ( Bering Strait ).

John Lucas wrote about his sometimes strained relationship with his father after his parents divorced in his book " Eighty Odd years in Hollywood: Memoir of a Career in Film and Television " ( 2004 )

During the Eighty years war, the county of Holland played an important part in the resistance against the Spaniards.

In 1608, when the negotiations for the 12 years truce between Maurice of Nassau and Ambrogio Spinola within the Eighty Years War had already begun in The Hague, he took no part as he was against them.

Fifteen years later, Todd and his son were thinking of ways they could enhance their film Around the World in Eighty Days.

Eighty years later, conductors Alfred Walker and Klaus Heymann managed to put together a semi-complete collection of Johann's works ( according to Johann Strauss II: The Complete Orchestral Edition ).

Peregrine White of this town, Aged Eighty three years, and Eight Months ; died the 20th Instant.

Eighty years later Enna again became conspicuous as the headquarters of the First Servile War in Sicily ( 134 BC-132 BC ), which first broke out there under the lead of Eunus, who made himself master in the first instance of Enna, which from its central position and great natural strength became the center of his operations, and the receptacle, of the plunder of Sicily.

By the later stages of the Eighty Years War the Dutch had switched entirely from the heavier ships still used by the English and Spanish to the lighter frigates, carrying around 40 guns and weighing around 300 tons.

Fawkes later converted to Catholicism and left for the continent, where he fought in the Eighty Years ' War on the side of Catholic Spain against Protestant Dutch reformers.

The country witnessed battles of the Thirty Years ' War and general hostilities of the Eighty Years ' War ; Phillip II and III of Portugal and later the Dutch and English used forts built from the destroyed temples, including Fort Fredrick in Trincomalee, to fight sea battles with the Dutch, Danish, the French and English which saw the beginning of the loss of the sovereign Tamil nation-state on the island.

The story may have later been an inspiration for Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.

In 1566, unlike the situation after the Eighty Years War and today, Protestantism in the Low Countries was mainly concentrated in the south ( roughly modern Belgium ), and much weaker in the north ( roughly now the Netherlands ), and iconoclasm in the north began later, after news of the events in Antwerp was received, and was more successfully resisted by local authorities in some towns, although still succeeding in most.

In 1574, during the Eighty Years War against Spain, the church was looted and burned down by Dutch Protestants, but was later rebuilt to its current state.

One century later, the cloth industry took the place of the older metallurgical works, thanks in part to the Eighty Years War raging in the neighbouring Netherlands.

Rembrandt Night Watch ( painting ) | The Night Watch ( 1642 ) In 1568, the Seven Provinces that later signed the Union of Utrecht () started a rebellion against Philip II of Spain that led to the Eighty Years ' War.

However, on many other occasions, ( such as in the later Italian Wars, French Wars of Religion and the Eighty Years War ) their bravery and discipline came under severe criticism, and the Spanish elements of the Imperial army regularly deprecated the battlefield usefulness of the Landsknechts — it was said that the Duke of Alba hired them only to deny their services to the Dutch enemy, and put them on display to swell his numbers, not intending to fight with them.

The duchy roughly conforms to the borders and territories of the modern region of Bourgogne, but its dukes came to own considerable possessions in the Low Countries known as the Burgundian Netherlands, which were caught up in the Eighty Years ' War of the 16th and 17th centuries, and some of which later became free territories at the end of the Dutch Revolt during the Thirty Years ' War.

Eighty three later were executed by the Bosnian Serb troops.

Traditionally a rural farming community, but now largely suburban, Chigwell was mentioned in the Domesday Book and later lauded by Charles Dickens in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ' Eighty ; the Maypole Inn is based on the King's Head inn, though the name was taken from the Maypole public house in Chigwell Row ; and it is likely Dickens visited both hostelries.

Eighty years later, strange things start happening on Earth.

Spain sent galley squadrons to the Netherlands during the later stages of the Eighty Years ' War which successfully operated against Dutch forces in the enclosed, shallow coastal waters.

In the summer of 1946, Welles was directing a musical stage version of Around the World in Eighty Days, with a comedic and ironic rewriting of the Jules Verne novel by Welles, incidental music and songs by Cole Porter, and production by Mike Todd, who would later produce the successful film version with David Niven.

* 1572 – In the Eighty Years ' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.

* 1607 – Eighty Years ' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.

This oath was the climax of the Eighty Years ' War ( Dutch Revolt ).

In the 16th-century invention of a suitably antique origin myth for the Dutch people that would be expressive of their self-identification as separate from their neighbors in the national struggle with Spain of the Eighty Years War for Dutch independence, the Batavians came to be regarded as their eponymous ancestors.

At the time he was the leader of growing national Dutch resistance against Spanish occupation of the country, which struggle is known as the Eighty Years ' War.

Category: Dutch people of the Eighty Years ' War ( United Provinces )

In 1583, during the Eighty Years ' War, Habsburg Spain recovered the Southern Netherlands from the rebellious Dutch.

* 1607 25 April – During the Eighty Years ' War between the United Provinces and the King of Spain, a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish fleet anchored at the Bay of Gibraltar ( Battle of Gibraltar ).

It was found in Holland by English troops who were fighting against the Spanish in the Eighty Years ' War who noticed its calming effects before battle, which is the origin of the term Dutch courage.

In 1566 William of Orange, a convert to Calvinism and the father of his people, started the Eighty Years ' War to liberate the Dutch from the Catholic Spaniards and the brutality of the Duke of Alba.

* 1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years ' War.

* 1573 – End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in Eighty Years War.

These treaties ended the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ) in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years ' War ( 1568 – 1648 ) between Spain and the Dutch Republic, with Spain formally recognizing the independence of the Dutch Republic.

Anti-monarchism became more strident in the Dutch Republic during and after the Eighty Years ' War, which began in 1568.

Meanwhile, Spain was forced to accept the independence of the Dutch Republic in 1648, ending the Eighty Years ' War.

Use of the term largely originates from the American War of Independence but prior conflicts sometimes got the name retroactively — such as the Dutch War of Independence, originally known as the " Eighty Years ' War " and still often called by that name in the Netherlands themselves.

* January 30 – The Dutch and the Spanish sign the Peace of Münster, ending the Eighty Years ' War.

* October 2 – Eighty Years ' War: After a siege of 86 days, Bergen-op-Zoom is relieved by a Dutch army led by Maurice of Nassau and Ernst von Mansfeld.