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Grand Pensionaryship of Johan de Witt

Type Event Region Netherlands Time 1661–1670

In the 1660s, Johan de Witt dominated States General politics as Grand Pensionary of Holland, pursuing provincial primacy and pragmatic diplomacy, sa…

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  1. 1661–1665The Hague · NetherlandsIn the early 1660s de Witt continued, as Grand Pensionary of Holland, to coordinate the seven provinces, suppressing Orangist pressure for a restoration, and maintaining the Republic's system for foreign negotiations and domestic fiscal order.
  2. 1665–1667Dutch Republic · NetherlandsWar with England resumed in 1665; de Witt promoted naval construction and a strategy of peace negotiations. After the Dutch fleet's raid on the Medway in 1667, he helped bring about the Treaty of Breda, temporarily easing the maritime conflict.
  3. 1668–1670The Hague · NetherlandsIn the late 1660s Louis XIV of France pressed against the Southern Netherlands. De Witt used measures such as an anti-French alliance and the Perpetual Edict to uphold provincial rights, but Orangist and popular discontent rose, laying the groundwork for his political collapse in 1672.

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