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1101
Most of the inhabitants of Caesarea were massacred by the army of Flanders Count Baldwin I (1100–1118), king of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Baldwin was the first emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople (1204-1205).
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1164 Nov 2
Thomas Becket, the archbishop of Canterbury, fled England and landed in Flanders.
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1177 Aug 2
Philip of Flanders arrived in Acre. A Christian army under the joint command of Philip of Flanders and Raymond of Tripoli marched west to campaign against the Muslims around Tripoli.
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1299
The Count of Holland gained control of the County of Zeeland, which had been under contention between Holland and Flanders.
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1400
Roger Van Der Weyden (d.1464), Flemish painter, was born.
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1430
Hans Memling (d.1494), painter of the Flemish school, was born in Seligenstadt, Germany.
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1432
The Flemish "Adoration of the Mystic Lamb" was completed brothers Jan and Hubert van Eyck. The work is an altarpiece of 12 detailed panels that is widely considered one of the most important pieces of early Renaissance art. In 2021 it emerged from a decade of restoration in a new exhibition space in Belgium's Ghent cathedral, with updated technology to plunge visitors into an intricate work with a troubled past.
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1441 Jun
Jan/Johannes van Eyck (b.1395), Flemish painter (Lamb Gods), died in Brugge.
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1464 Jun 18
Roger Van Der Weyden (b.1400), Flemish painter, died. He had mastered the new technique of oil painting and served as the official painter to the city of Brussels.
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1472
Hans Memling painted “The Virgin and Child With St. Anthony Abbot and Donor.”
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1487
Hans Memling (c.1440-1494), Flemish painter, painted the diptych “Virgin and Child” and “Maarten van Nieuwenhove” (1463-1500), who was his patron.
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1494 Aug 11
Hans Memling (b.1435), German-born master of Flemish painting, died in Brugge.
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1523 Jul 1
Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest, church reformer, was burned at stake along with John of Esschen (Jan van Essen), Flemish priest, church reformer. The 2 monks were executed in Brussels for refusing to recant their Lutheran beliefs.
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1538
Mercator (1512-1594), Flemish cartographer, used the name "America" for the first time.
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1560
Nicolas Gombert (b.~1495), Flemish composer, died about this time. He was one of the most famous and influential composers between Josquin Desprez and Palestrina, and best represents the fully-developed, complex polyphonic style of this period in music history.
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1564 Oct 15
Andreas Vesalius (b.1514), Flemish anatomist, died. Andreas Vesalius, the father of modern anatomy, was forced by the Inquisition to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He disappeared during the voyage. In 1543 he authored of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body).
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1569
Gerhardus Mercator (1512-1594), Flemish geographer, produced his "Map of the World" for the use of navigators on the projection that bears his name to this day. He was the first to use the term "atlas" for a collection of maps. In 2004 Andrew Taylor authored “The World of Gerard Mercator.”
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1585 Mar 10
Rembert Dodoens (b.1517), Flemish physician and botanist, died. He is also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. His books included “Stirpium historiae pemptades sex” (1583).
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1588
Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (b.~1533), French artist, died in England. He had painted watercolors of the flora and fauna of Florida, which were lost during a Spanish attack in 1565. Back in France he created new paintings, which were also lost, but engravings made by a Flemish publisher survived. In 2008 Miles Harvey authored “Painter in a Savage Land.”
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1588
An eye-witness account of the New World was provided by "A Briefe and True Account of the New Found Land of Virginia," written by Thomas Harriot. It recounted English attempts from 1584-1588 to colonize what later became known as eastern North Carolina and encouraged further settlement and investment there. In 1590 Flemish engraver Theodor de Bry published an illustrated edition featuring paintings by English colonist John White.
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1591
Flemish engraver Theodor de Bry published “A Brief Narration of Those Things Which Befell the French in the Province of Florida” in Latin and Germany editions. It focused on the 1564-1565 French settlement of Fort Caroline. The book included 42 engravings said to be based on water color paintings by Jacques de Moyne de Morgues (d.1588), who had accompanied the French expedition. Moyne also provided a narrative and a map. In 1946 Stefan Lorant translated Moyne’s text into English and reproduced his engravings and map in “The New World.”
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1594 Jun 14
Orlando di Lasso (b.~1532), Franco-Flemish composer, died in Munich. He was the most famous and influential musician in Europe at the end of the 16th century. Along with Palestrina (of the Roman School), he is considered to be the chief representative of the mature polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish School.
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1865 May 9
August de Boeck (d.1937), Flemish composer, was born.
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1917 Aug 14
The Chinese Parliament declared war on the Central Powers, Germany and Austria, during World War I. Some 100,000 Chinese laborers ended up serving near the front lines in Flanders as the “Chinese Labor Corps,” which endured military discipline under British officers. Hundreds died in the influenza that swept post-war Europe and the last were shipped home in 1920.
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1917 Nov 10
The assault on Flanders, begun July 11, finally ground to a halt. The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) had suffered losses of 300,000 men and German losses were around 200,000--for a total gain of four miles and the occupation of Passchendaele. The battle was later described by Edwin Campion Vaughan in “Some Desperate Glory” (1981).
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1991 Jul 18
Socialist Party leader Andre Cools was murdered. Cools had worked for more regional autonomy for Wallonia, the French-speaking southern half of Belgium, and the Dutch-speaking Flanders. The murder was believed to be done by hit men after Cools threatened to reveal certain underworld activities. 6 men were convicted for the murder in 2004.
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