{"slug": "habsburg-netherlands", "label": "Habsburg Netherlands", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_Netherlands", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1031430", "qid": "Q1031430", "description": "polity ruled by the Habsburg House from 1482 to 1795", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [1498, 1598], "span_label": ["1498 CE", "1598 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "albert-vii-archduke-of-austria", "label": "Albert VII, Archduke of Austria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "philip-ii-of-spain", "label": "Philip II of Spain", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "brussels", "label": "Brussels", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "eighty-years-war", "label": "Eighty Years' War", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "antwerp", "label": "Antwerp", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "maximilian-i-holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1498, "year_label": "1498 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 21", "text": "May 21 – In England, the members of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London are granted a trade monopoly with the Netherlands by King Henry VII \"in return for the payment of £5,000\" to the royal coffers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363338704#April–June", "title": "1498", "revid": 1363338704, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1509, "year_label": "1509 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 18 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, names Margaretha land guardians of the Habsburg Netherlands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369335853#January–March", "title": "1509", "revid": 1369335853, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1559, "year_label": "1559 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Margaret of Parma becomes Governor of the Netherlands, in place of her brother, King Philip II of Spain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366794840#Date_unknown", "title": "1559", "revid": 1366794840, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1567, "year_label": "1567 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 13", "text": "March 13 – Battle of Oosterweel: A Spanish mercenary army surprises and kills a band of rebels near Antwerp in the Habsburg Netherlands, beginning the Eighty Years' War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362147494#January–March", "title": "1567", "revid": 1362147494, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1595, "year_label": "1595 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 20", "text": "February 20 – Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor-General of the Habsburg Netherlands (now Belgium), dies at the age of 41 and is temporarily replaced by his Spanish assistant, Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339059002#January–March", "title": "1595", "revid": 1339059002, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1596, "year_label": "1596 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 11", "text": "February 11 – Albert of Austria arrives in Brussels to begin his administration as Governor General of the Habsburg Netherlands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369722581#January–March", "title": "1596", "revid": 1369722581, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1598, "year_label": "1598 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 6", "text": "May 6 – King Philip II of Spain announces that his eldest daughter, Isabella Clara Eugenia, will marry Albert of Austria (at the time a Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Toledo), and that the two will jointly govern the Habsburg Netherlands (now Belgium).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372769896#April–June", "title": "1598", "revid": 1372769896, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}