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| 1576 |
| | The Pacification of Ghent unites all the provinces of the Netherlands in opposition to Spain | |
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| 1579 |
| | The Union of Arras and the Union of Utrecht split the Netherlands into Catholic and Protestant camps | |
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| 1595 |
| | A year after Mercator's death, his son publishes a bound collection of his maps with the title Atlas, or Cosmographic Meditations | |
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| 1608 |
| | Rubens returns from Italy to Antwerp, where he soon establishes Europe's most successful and prolific studio | |
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| 1608 |
| | A shipload of Puritans, among them some of the future Pilgrim Fathers, sail from Boston in Lincolnshire to seek religious freedom in Holland | |
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| 1618 |
| | The 19-year-old Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck is employed by Rubens in Antwerp as his chief assistant | |
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| c. 1700 |
| | Holland and England are now producing the magnificent ocean-going merchant vessels known as East Indiamen | |
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| 1714 |
| | In the aftermath of the War of the Spanish Succession, the Spanish Netherlands are transferred to Austria | |
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| 1746 |
| | The French commander Maurice de Saxe succeeds in occupying the entire Austrian Netherlands | |
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| 1792 |
| | After their success at Valmy, French republican armies overrun much of the Austrian Netherlands | |
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