Siege of Leiden
1574
Dutch rebels opened the dikes to flood the polders and float a rescue fleet toward the starving city of Leiden. The Spanish lifted the siege in early October. William of Orange rewarded the city with a university that still bears his name, and that still takes in Dutch students on October 3.
In context
Also in 1574 (3 other events on record)
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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