Pachtersoproer

Looting the houses of the tax collectors, 1748
Het plunderen van het huis van A.M. van Arssen, op de Cingel bij de Huiszittensteeg te Amsterdam, op Dingsdag den 24en Junij A° 1748.

The pachtersoproer was a Dutch rebellion in the 18th century. The origin of the uprising was to be found in the economic malaise of the 1740s as a result of the Austrian War of Succession. It was the system of commercial tax-collection called pacht that brought serious complaints, combined with deep dissatisfaction at the way in which the regents and the landed gentry exercised their power.