1672 in the Netherlands

Events from the year 1672 in the Dutch Republic

Events

 * Siege of Groningen
 * Siege of Groenlo
 * Battle of Solebay
 * Rampjaar

Deaths

 * January 21 – Adriaen van de Velde, painter (b. 1636)
 * August 20
 * Cornelis de Witt, politician (b. 1623)
 * Johan de Witt, politician (b. 1625)
 * October 8 – Johan Nieuhof, traveler who wrote about his journeys to Brazil (b. 1618)
 * November 16 – Esaias Boursse, painter (b. 1631)
 * November 19 – Franciscus Sylvius, physician and scientist (b. 1614)
 * December 30 – Hendrick Bloemaert, painter (b. 1601)