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Albert VII of Austria

Austrian cardinal and governor of the Netherlands (1559-1621)

7 dated entries naming Albert VII of Austria, drawn from 6 separate years between 1559 CE and 1621 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Albert VII, Archduke of Austria in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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16th century

  • 1559November 15 – Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries (d. 1621)source
  • 1596February 11 – Albert of Austria arrives in Brussels to begin his administration as Governor General of the Habsburg Netherlands.source
  • 1596August 18 – The siege of the Dutch city of Hulst is completed after a month as Spanish forces under the command of Albert, son of the late Holy Roman Emperor Maxmimilan II, force the surrender of the city.source
  • 1598May 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).source

17th century

  • 1601July 5 – The Siege of Ostend, which will last more than three years and claims more than 100,000 casualties for both Spain and the Netherlands, begins as Albert of Austria, Governor General of the Habsburg Netherlands, leads an attack on the Dutch Netherlands fortress at Ostend. The Spanish forces eventually triumph on September 20, 1604, albeit in a Pyrrhic victory that will see at least 60,000 soldiers killed, wounded, or dead from disease.source
  • 1611July 12 – The Perpetual Edict is proclaimed for the government of the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) by Archduke Albert VII and his wife Isabella, the joint rulers of the Austrian-controlled nation.source
  • 1621July 13 – Albert VII, Archduke of Austria for a few months in 1619 and (b. 1559)source

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