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Amsterdam : 1566 and 1578: Iconoclasm and Alteration

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1566 and 1578: Iconoclasm and Alteration

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  • As Protestantism swept northern Europe, Dutch Calvinists rebelled against their intolerant Spanish Catholic ruler, Philip II. In theBeeldenstorm or Iconoclasm, the Calvinists stormed the Catholic churches and destroyed their religious artifacts. The city finally became Protestant, in a peaceful revolution known as theAlteratie or Alteration.

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