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Diego Velázquez

1599 CE – 1660 CE

Retrace Diego Velázquez's life across the map — 2 events in chronological order, from a cinematic flythrough to a full timeline.

Life journey

1. Siege of Breda1624 CE
   The siege of Breda of 1624–1625 occurred during the Eighty Years' War and was carried out by the Army of Flanders. The siege resulted in the fortified city of Breda passing from the control of the Dutch Republic to that of the Habsburg Netherlands.
2. Battle of Bailén1808 CE
   The Battle of Bailén was fought in 1808 between the Spanish Army's Army of Andalusia, under General Francisco Javier Castaños and the French Imperial Army's 2nd Gironde Observational Corps under Divisional-General Pierre Dupont de l'Étang. The first open-field defeat of a Napoleonic army, the battle's heaviest fighting took place near Bailén, a village by the Guadalquivir river in the Jaén province of southern Spain.

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