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| 1665–67 |
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| SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR. France and Denmark supported the Dutch (See 1665–67). | 1 |
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| 1667 |
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| The Eternal Edict abolished the stadholdership. It would be reinstated and made hereditary after 1748. | 2 |
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| 1668, Jan. 23 |
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| Triple Alliance of England, Holland, and Sweden (See Jan. 23). | 3 |
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| 1669 |
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| Beginning of a number of government policies restricting emigration (continued reforms until 1750). | 4 |
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| 1672–78 |
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| WAR WITH FRANCE AND ENGLAND. The French were able to overrun much of the Netherlands (See 1672–78). John De Witt was murdered in a riot (Aug. 27, 1672). | 5 |
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| 1672–1702 |
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| WILLIAM III (son of William II), stadholder. The British abandoned the war (1674) and the Dutch came off without losses. | 6 |
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| 1688–97 |
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| WAR OF THE LEAGUE OF AUGSBURG against Louis XIV. William led the coalition (See 1688–97). | 7 |
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| 1702, March 8 |
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| The death of William III, without children, brought to an end the direct line of the house of Orange, which, however, was continued by the related house of Naussau. | 8 |
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| 1701–14 |
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| The WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION (See 1701–14). | 9 |
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| 1715, Nov. 15 |
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| The Barrier Treaty. Holland received key territories on the French frontier from the empire as protection against attack from France. | 10 |
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| 1743 |
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| The Dutch Republic joined Britain in the alliance with Maria Theresa against Prussia and France. The French conquests in the Austrian Netherlands constituted a direct danger to the republic. | 11 |
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| 1747 |
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| The Revolution of 1747 restored the stadholderate to William IV. | 12 |
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