page_title: Franco-Dutch War
section_title: Chronological list of key events
hierarchical_section_title: Franco-Dutch War / Chronological list of key events
context_page_description: The Franco-Dutch War, often simply called the Dutch War, fought from 1672 to 1678, was a major conflict which pitted France against the Dutch Republic. It also involved many other European states, including the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, England, Sweden, Brandenburg-Prussia and Denmark-Norway. It was the first of the major European wars that marked the reign of Louis XIV of France.
  The war began in May 1672 when France invaded the Dutch Republic and nearly overran it; an event still referred to in the Netherlands as the Rampjaar. The French advance was finally halted by the Dutch flooding the country and by late July, their position had stabilised, with support from Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, Spain and Brandenburg-Prussia; this was formalised in the Treaty of The Hague in August 1673, which Lorraine joined in October and Denmark–Norway in January 1674.
  Faced with a financial crisis, Sweden agreed to remain neutral in return for French subsidies, but in 1675 became involved in the Scanian War with its regional rivals Denmark and Brandenburg. On balance, the cost of funding the Swedish army made its support largely negative for France.
context_section_description: 1672 – Battle of Solebay (7 June, Third Anglo-Dutch War)
  1673 – Battle of Schooneveld (7–14 June, Third Anglo-Dutch War)
  1673 – Siege of Maastricht (13–26 June)
  1673 – Battle of Texel (21 August; Third Anglo-Dutch War)
  1673 – Siege of Bonn (October–November)
  1673 – Siege of Werl
  1673 – Battle of Heringen
  1674 – Occupation of Acadia
  1674 – Siege of Besançon (April–May)
  1674 – Battle of Sinsheim (16 June)
  1674 – Battle of Ladenburg (7 July)
  1674 – Battle of Seneffe (11 August)
  1674 – Battle of Enzheim (4 October)
  1674 – Battle of Mulhouse (29 December)
  1675 – Battle of Turckheim (5 January)
  1675 – Battle of Fehrbellin (28 June; Brandenburg-Swedish War)
  1675 – Battle of Nieder Sasbach (27 July)
  1675 – Battle of Konzer Brücke (11 August)
  1676 – Battle Alicudi (8 January)
  1676 – Battle of Messina (25 March)
  1676 – Battle of Golfo di Augusta (22 April)
  1676 – Battle of Jasmund (25 May; Danish-Swedish (Scanian) War of 1675–1679)
  1676 – Battle of Öland (11 June, Scanian War of 1675–1679)
  1676 – Battle of Palermo (2 June)
  1676 – Battle of Halmstad (17 August; Scanian War of 1675–1679)
  1676 – Battle of Lund (4 December; Scanian War of 1675–1679)
  1677 – Siege of Valenciennes (28 February – 17 March)
  1677 – Siege of Cambrai (28 March – 17 April)
  1677 – Battle of Cassel (11 April)
  1677 – Battle of Køge Bay (1 July; Scanian War of 1675–1679)
  1677 – Battle of Landskrona (24 July; Scanian War of 1675–1679)
  1677 – Battle of Kochersberg (7 October)
  1678 – Battle of Warksow (18 January; Brandenburg-Swedish War )
  1678 – Siege of Offenburg
  1678 – Siege of Ypres (18–25 March)
  1678 – Battle of Rheinfelden (6 July)
  1678 – Battle of Ortenbach, also known as Battle of Gengenbach; (23 July)
  1678 – Battle of Saint-Denis (14 August)
caption: The Battle of Solebay, May 1672
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