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Antwerpen

The richest port of 16th-century Europe, Rubens' city and the world's diamond hub.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1500 CE mainstream
  Golden Age: some 40% of world trade passes through the port source
• 1576 CE mainstream
  the Spanish Fury sacks the city; ~8,000 dead source
• 1585 CE mainstream
  Farnese takes Antwerp; Protestants flee north, seeding the Dutch Golden Age source

Where

51.2180° N, 4.4000° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Antwerp
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Antwerp

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