Balthasar Gérard was the assassin of the Dutch revolt's leader, William the Silent of the House of Orange He killed William the Silent in Delft on 10 July ...

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Spanish agents may have orchestrated the assassination of Dutch leader William of Orange in 1584. This article appears in: January 2018 ...

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William, Prince of Orange, assassinated in Prinsenhof. Date: July 10, 1584. Willem I, Prince of Orange (1533–1584), was shot dead in the Prinsenhof by the ...

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26 Apr 2025 — On July 10, 1584, William of Orange—the leader of the Dutch Revolt and a symbol of Protestant resistance—was assassinated, sending shockwaves ...

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Juan de Jáuregui (assassin) ... Juan de Jáuregui (Bilbao, 1562 – Antwerpen, March 18, 1582) was killed trying to assassinate Prince William I of Orange. He was a ...

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23 Feb 2020 — On March 18, 1582, Juan de Jáuregui, a Spaniard, attempted to assassinate Willem. Willem was severely wounded but survived due to the care of ...

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William I, Prince of Orange is shot by the assassin Balthasar Gérard in the Prinsenhof at Delft in 1584. Etching by Jan Luyken after R. de Hooghe. Hooghe, ...

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5 Mar 2025 — William the Silent was the first head of state to be assassinated by means of a handheld firearm. Read on for the full story of this ...

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The Assassination of William of Orange. Philip replied to this union of the Netherlands under Orange by despatching an army of twenty thousand men there, ...

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