First Anglo-Dutch War Begins
1652
A confrontation off Dover between English and Dutch fleets over naval salutes and the Navigation Act exploded into open war between the two leading Protestant maritime powers. The conflict was fought almost entirely at sea. English discipline and heavier ships eventually told; Dutch trade suffered for years, and the war established that England would fight to dominate Atlantic commerce.
In context
Also in 1652 (3 other events on record)
- Dutch Settle the Cape · Africa · Politics
- Nikon's Church Reforms Split Russian Orthodoxy · Europe · Religion
- Fronde of the Princes Crushed · Europe · Politics
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.