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1560 MDLX: Ab urbe condita: 2313: Armenian calendar: 1009 ... Tulips arrive in the Netherlands. Year 1560 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
This is a list of monarchs of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koningen der Nederlanden). By practical extension, the list includes the stadtholders of the House of Orange Nassau since 1556. However, they were voted into office by, and were civil servants and generals of, the semi-independent provinces of the Dutch Republic and cannot be seen as monarchs.
The Netherlands was one of the richest places in the world. The population reached 3 million in 1560, with 25 cities of 10,000 people or more, by far the largest urban presence in Europe; with the trading and financial center of Antwerp being especially important (population 100,000).
The Habsburg Netherlands was a geo-political entity covering the whole of the Low Countries (i.e. the present-day Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and most of the modern French départements of Nord and Pas-de-Calais) from 1482 to 1581. The northern Low Countries began growing from 1200 AD, with the drainage and flood control of land, which ...
June 1 – A mass execution is carried out in the Spanish Netherlands at Sablon, near Brussels, as 18 persons who signed the Compromise of Nobles on April 5, 1566, are beheaded. [ 174 ] June 13 – Thomas Lancaster is consecrated as the Archbishop of Armagh , spiritual leader of the Church of Ireland , succeeding Archbishop Adam Loftus .
Jakob Hermanszoon [a] was born in 1559 or 1560 in Oudewater, Utrecht, Netherlands. He became an orphan while still young. His father Herman, a manufacturer of weapons, died, leaving his wife a widow with small children. [1] He never knew his father, and his mother was killed during the Spanish massacre at Oudewater in 1575. [citation needed]
Jacobus Arminius (1560–1609), Dutch theologian, served from 1603 as professor in theology at the University of Leiden; Gerardus Vossius (1577-1649), Dutch theologian and humanist; Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676), Dutch theologian, served from 1634 as professor in theology at the University of Utrecht. Noted opponent of Cartesianism.
List of wars in the southern Low Countries (1560–1829) – includes wars on the present territory of Belgium and Luxembourg, including the Southern Netherlands (Spanish Netherlands & Austrian Netherlands), the Principality of Liège, the Princely Abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy, the Prince-Bishopric of Cambrésis and the Imperial City of Cambray ...