List of wars involving the Dutch Republic

 

  United Provinces (c. 1576–1580s)^[c]

•   Calvinist Republic of Ghent (1577–1584)
•   Antwerp Republic [nl; fr] (1577–1585)
•   Brussels Republic [nl] (1576–1584)

  Dutch Republic (1581/8–1648)

• Dutch States Army (1570s onwards)

Allies:

•   Francis, Duke of Anjou (1580–1583)

  Kingdom of England (1585–1604, 1625–30)
  Kingdom of France (1595–8, 1635–48)
  Duchy of Bouillon (1593–5)

 

• Bandes d'ordonnance (early war)
• Army of Flanders (1567 onwards)

  Portuguese Empire (1580–1640)
  Austrian Habsburgs (1598–1621)
Allies:
  Prince-Bishopric of Liège (1595)

• Peace of Münster^[1]
• Independence of the Dutch Republic^[1]
• Spanish retention of the Southern Netherlands^[1]

  

• Native allies

  

• Native allies

  Spanish Empire

• Treaty of Hague
• Formation of the Dutch Empire
• Portuguese Restoration War

• Mohawks
• Oneida
• Seneca
• Onondaga
• Cayuga

Supported by:
  England
  Dutch Republic

• Algonquin
• Susquehannock
• Erie
• Neutral
• Petun
• Odawa
• Ojibwe
• Wenro
• Mahican
• Innu
• Abenaki
• Supported by:
•   France

• Collapse of the Ming dynasty and Southern Ming dynasty
• Suppression of the rebel Kingdom of Shu, Xi dynasty, Shun dynasty, and Kingdom of Tungning
• Consolidation of Qing dynasty rule in China proper

  

  Dutch Republic
  England

  

  Kingdom of Croatia
 Spain

• Many Uskok pirates executed or exiled; Austrian garrison installed to check Uskoks.

• Dutch achieve favourable treaty, and attack on Dutch ships stop
• Expedition to Algiers (1624)^[d]

• Banda massacre committed
• Dutch forces colonise the Banda Islands.

  

  Dutch East India Company

 

•   Spanish East Indies
•   Council of Portugal
  •   Macau
  •   Goa
  •   Malacca

• Dutch hegemony on Southeast Asia.

• The Mataram siege repelled

• Increased Dutch area of control

• National seclusion policy imposed
• Christianity driven underground in Japan

  

•   Lascarins

  Kingdom of Kotte

• End of the kingdoms of Kotte, Sitawaka, Jaffna and Raigama
• End of Portuguese Ceylon
• Incorporation of parts of Kotte and Sitawaka into the Kingdom of Kandy
• Capture of Colombo, Galle, Jaffna, Raigama and much of Sitawaka by the Dutch and the establishment of Dutch Ceylon

• Acclamation of John IV as the new King of Portugal (1640)
• The Habsburgs relinquish all claims to the Portuguese Throne
• Treaty of Lisbon (1668)
• End of the Iberian Union

• Treaty of Westminster
• Loevestein faction gains power in Dutch Republic at Orangists' expense

• Outlying Dutch settlements ordered to garrison at Fort Amsterdam
• Staten Island abandoned but eventually retaken and equipped with better defenses.

• Scania, Halland, Blekinge, Bohuslän and Ven become Swedish
• Duchy of Prussia becomes a sovereign state
• Sweden's sovereignty in Swedish Livonia accepted

• Treaty of Bongaya

• Uti possidetis
• Treaty of Breda

• Chetwai ceded to the Dutch.

  

•   Dutch East India Company

• French expelled from all occupied territories
• Expansion of Dutch Ceylon, and Rajasinha's offenses repelled

• Treaty of Westminster (1674)

• Treaties of Nijmegen
• Large French territorial gains at expense of anti-French Alliance (Franche-Comté and territories in the Spanish Netherlands)
• France returns occupied Dutch territories of Maastricht and Principality of Orange in exchange for these gains

  

• Khoikhoi allies

 

  Dutch East India Company (VOC)

• VOC's Indonesian allies

Rival claimants to Mataram throne (after 1677)

• Treaty of Fontainebleau (1679)
• Treaty of Lund (1679)
• Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1679)
• Sweden cedes most of its Pomeranian areas east of the Oder to Brandenburg-Prussia.

• Treaty of Ryswick
• Louis XIV recognises William III of Orange as King of England, Scotland and Ireland.

 

  

•   Dutch East India Company

 

  

•   French East India Company

• Establishment of Ban Phlu Luang dynasty.
• Expulsion of French troops in Bangkok.

• Treaty of Limerick
• Withdrawal of remaining Jacobite forces to France
• Confirmation of William as King of Ireland

• Treaty of Utrecht (1713)
• Treaty of Rastatt (1714)
• Treaty of Baden (1714)
• Philip is recognised as King of Spain, but once more renounces any claim to the throne of France.
• The Dutch Republic retains various forts in the Southern Netherlands and annexes a part of Spanish Guelders.
• Spain and Britain sign the Asiento
• Spain cedes the Spanish Netherlands, Kingdom of Naples, Duchy of Milan and Sardinia to the Habsburg monarchy, Sicily to the Duchy of Savoy and Gibraltar and Menorca to Britain
• France recognizes British sovereignty over Rupert's Land and Newfoundland and cedes Acadia and its half of Saint Kitts to Great Britain.
• Spain cedes the Colony of Sacramento to the Portuguese Empire
• The decline of Spanish global power

• Dutch annexation of Pappinivattam and Chettuva.
• War indemnity of 85,000 gold coins was paid to the Dutch.

• Treaty of The Hague
• Austria cedes Sardinia to Savoy
• Savoy cedes Sicily to Austria

• Governor-General Adriaan Valckenier was arrested by the Dutch government for the atrocity and replaced by Johannes Thedens.

• Prussian control of Silesia confirmed.
• Duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla ceded to the Spanish Bourbons.
• All other territories restored to pre-war owners

• End of the Mataram Sultanate
• Division of Mataram in 3 independent states called Surakarta Sunanate, Yogyakarta Sultanate and Mangkunegaran Palace
• Raden Mas Said's surrender

  

•   Dutch East India Company

• The Zamorin of Calicut ceded Madilagam, Puthanchira, Chettuwaye, and Pappinvattam to the Dutch and agreed to pay tribute to them as part of the peace agreement.^[8]

  

•   Dutch East India Company

• Treaty of Batticaloa

  

 

 

  

  Mysore
Oneida
Tuscarora
Watauga Association
Catawba
Lenape
Choctaw

  Great Britain

 

 

Iroquois
Onondaga
Mohawk
Cayuga
Seneca
Cherokee

• Treaty of Paris
• Britain recognizes the independence of the United States of America
• Dutch Republic gains United States as new ally and important trading partner, but Britain declares Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780–1784), defeating the Republic and causing the politically unstable Patriottentijd
• Mutual ally France ends up in deep debt, which later became one of the causes of the French Revolution (1789)
• End of the First British Empire

• Treaty of Paris (1784)
• Britain gains free trade rights in parts of the Dutch East Indies
• Dutch cede Negapatnam to Britain.

• Status quo ante bellum
• Treaty of Mangalore

 

• Austrian Netherlands

• Treaty of Fontainebleau (1785)

• Orangists capture Patriot strongholds Hattem and Elburg (September 1786)
• Patriots win Battle of Jutphaas and Bijltjesoproer (May 1787)
• Interrupted by pro-Orangist Prussian invasion of Holland (late 1787)

• Orange Restoration

• Peace of Basel, Treaty of Campo Formio
• Survival of the French Republic
• French annexation of the Austrian Netherlands, the Left Bank of the Rhine and other smaller territories
• Several French client republics established
• Hostilities resume in 1798 with the formation of a Second Coalition against France