1580s in the Southern Netherlands

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Events from the 1580s in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège.

Incumbents

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Habsburg Netherlands

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MonarchPhilip II, King of Spain and Duke of Brabant, of Luxembourg, etc.

Governor GeneralAlexander Farnese, Prince (later Duke) of Parma

Prince-Bishopric of Liège

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Prince-BishopGerard van Groesbeeck to December 1580; Ernest of Bavaria from January 1581

Events

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1580
1581
1582
1583
1584
  • 7 April – End of the Siege of Ypres (1584)
  • 28 May – Bruges surrendered to Alexander Farnese
  • 17 August – Taking of Dendermonde
  • 17 September – Surrender of Ghent
1585
1586
  • 18 September – Alexander Farnese becomes Duke of Parma
1587
  • 15 May – Edict, ordonnance et instruction sur l'exercice et l'administration de la jurisdiction et justice militaire
1588
1589
  • Ecclesiastical censorship of the press and the theatre established by Ernest of Bavaria, Prince-Bishop of Liège, Lettres patentes pour la conservation et maintien de la foy et religion chrestienne catholique apostolique romaine es païz de l'evesché et principauté de Liége (printed in Liège by Gautier Morberius)

Publications

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1580
1581
1583
1585
  • Articulen ende conditien vanden tractate aengegaen ende ghesloten tusschen die Prince van Parma ende de stadt van Bruessele (Brussels, Jan Mommaert) – the terms of the surrender of Brussels
1587
1588
  • Jan Franco, Almanach oft journael voor't schrickel- jaer ons Heeren M.D.LXXXVIII (Antwerp, Joachim Trognaesius) – a calendar for the year 1588
  • Statuta synodalia dioecesis Atrebatensis cum praedecessorum statutis adjectis (Arras, printed by Joachim Trognaesius for Claude de Buyens) – statutes of the diocesan synod of the diocese of Arras
  • William Allen, An admonition to the nobility and people of England and Ireland, intended to be distributed in the event of a successful Spanish landing in England, printed anonymously by Arnout Coninx but never published
1589
  • Francisco de Valdés, Espeio, y deceplina militar (Brussels, Rutger Velpius)
  • I. B., The copy of a letter lately written by a Spanishe gentleman, to his friend in England in refutation of sundry calumnies, there falsly bruited, and spred emonge the people (Antwerp, Joachim Trognaesius) – counter-propaganda regarding the Spanish Armada
  • Cort verhael vanden aenslach die d'Engelsche hebben aenhevanghen in Spaengien ende Portugael (Antwerp, Joachim Trognaesius) – an account of the English Armada's activities on the coasts of Spain and Portugal

Births

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1580
1581
1582
1583
1584
1585
1586
1587
1588
1589
Year uncertain

Deaths

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1580
1581
1582
1583
1584
1585
1586
1587
1588
1589

References

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