All fiefs in the current Netherlands region…

1540 CE to 1683 CE

All fiefs in the current Netherlands region are united under Habsburg Charles V, ruler of the Holy Roman Empire and King of Spain, into the Seventeen Provinces, which also includes most of present-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and some adjacent land in what is now France and Germany.

In 1568, the Eighty Years' War between the Provinces and their Spanish ruler begins.

In 1579, the northern half of the Seventeen Provinces forge the Union of Utrecht in which they commit to support each other in their defense against the Spanish army.

The Union of Utrecht is seen as the foundation of the modern Netherlands.

In 1581, the northern provinces adopt the Act of Abjuration, the declaration of independence in which the provinces officially depose Philip II of Spain as reigning monarch in the northern provinces.

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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor View → Philip II of Spain View →

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Dutch people View → Flanders, County of View → Namur, County of View → Habsburg, House of View → Zutphen, County of View → Limburg, Duchy of View → Hainaut, County of View → Holland, County of View → Guelders, Duchy of View → Brabant, Duchy of View → Artois, County of View → Zeeland, County of View → Mechelen, Lordship of View → Luxemburg, Duchy of View → Holy Roman Empire View → Netherlands, Habsburg View → Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of View → Frisia, Lordship of View → Utrecht, Lordship of View → Drenthe, County View → Overijssel, Lordship of View → Groningen, Lordship of View → Seventeen Provinces View → Union of Utrecht View → Netherlands, Southern (Spanish) View → Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic) View →

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Eighty Years War (Netherlands, or Dutch, War of Independence) View →

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