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Pages in category "Apartment buildings in the Netherlands" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. H.
1560 Palladian villas of the Veneto: Villa Foscari is completed and Villa Barbaro is probably begun. Wat Xieng Thong Buddhist temple at Luang Prabang in the kingdom of Lan Xang (modern-day Laos) is completed. Construction of the Uffizi in Florence, designed by Giorgio Vasari, begins. Construction of Mexico City Cathedral begins.
1568 in the Habsburg Netherlands (2 P) Pages in category "1560s in the Habsburg Netherlands" This category contains only the following page.
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 ...
The Château of Mariemont owes its name (literally, "Mary-Mount") to its commissioner Queen Mary of Hungary, the sister of Emperor Charles V. [1] After she lost her husband, King Louis II of Hungary, at a fairly young age, in 1531, she was commissioned by her brother to govern the Habsburg Netherlands as governor. [1]
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 Netherlands was annexed by the First French Empire in 1810. [48] The incorporation act called the Decree of Rambouillet (8/9 July 1810) kept the structure of the Kingdom of Holland largely intact. [49] In 1810, Amsterdam was officially declared the third imperial capital in the First French Empire, after Paris and Rome.
On the recommendation of René of Chalon, he was appointed State Attorney (Grand Pensionary) of the States of Holland on 30 January 1544. [3] He remained Grand pensionary until his death in 1560. [2] Van der Goes continued the Register van de Dachvaerden der Statens's Lands van Holland, started by his father. This register appeared in print in ...