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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 CE, with the drainage and flood control of land, which ...
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Seventeen Provinces map by Gabriel Bodenehr English map of the Seventeen Provinces of Low Germanie Coats of Arms of the Seventeen Provinces. After the Habsburg emperor Charles V had re-acquired the Duchy of Guelders from Duke William of Jülich-Cleves-Berg by the 1543 Treaty of Venlo, the Seventeen Provinces comprised: Map of the Low Countries ...
'placard of abjuration') is the declaration of independence by many of the provinces of the Netherlands from their allegiance to Philip II of Spain, during the Dutch Revolt. Signed on 26 July 1581, in The Hague, the Act formally confirmed a decision made by the States General of the Netherlands in Antwerp four days earlier.
The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies—mainly the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company—and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and by the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands after 1815.
16th century in the Habsburg Netherlands (1482–1581) — the Holy Roman Empire fiefs in the Low Countries ruled by the Habsburg dynasty. It included present day Belgium and much of the present day Netherlands. In 1556 its "Seventeen Provinces" became the Habsburg Spanish Netherlands.
The Burgundian Netherlands then came under the rule of the House of Habsburg, beginning the period of the Habsburg Netherlands (1482–1581). With the abdication in 1556 of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (also King of Spain as Charles I), the Habsburg Netherlands passed to his son King Philip II of Spain.
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