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    The Alteratie (Eng: Alteration) is the name given to the change of power in Amsterdam on May 26, 1578, when the Catholic city government was deposed in...
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  • (album), by Altera Enigma Alterations (film), a 1988 Australian film Alteratie, the change of power in Amsterdam on 26 May 1578 Alterations (band), British...
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    1421 and 1452. This delayed the building for almost 1 year. Before the Alteratie, or Reformation in Amsterdam of 1578, the Oude Kerk was Roman Catholic...
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    Protestant, increasingly undertaken by official order, like the Amsterdam Alteratie ("Alteration") of 1578. Altars, to which Calvinists, unlike Lutherans...
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    Amsterdam began the war on the Crown's side, it changed sides with the Alteratie of 1578 and gave its support to William I of Orange. The rebellion led...
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    were also destroyed during the days surrounding the event known as the Alteratie, or "Changeover", when Amsterdam formally reverted to Protestantism from...
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    name to this day (nl). Open practice of Catholicism was banned after the Alteratie of 1578, and the monasteries were given over to other uses. For example...
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    courageous actions during the siege of Haarlem in 1573. In 1578, after the Alteratie, he moved to Amsterdam and by 1583 was manager of the brewery of Andries...
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    city government and expelling its members from the city. This so-called "Alteratie" brought Amsterdam again fully into the fold of the northern Netherlandish...
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    his brother Jan became one of the first regents of Amsterdam after the Alteratie. Spiegel was married twice, first to Bregtje van der Berg and Dieuwertje...
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