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completely dominate that of competing powers, like England, that had only a few years previously profited greatly from the handicap the Spanish embargoes posed to the Dutch. Now the greater efficiency of Dutch shipping had a chance to be fully translated into shipping prices, and the competitors were left in the dust. The structure of European trade therefore changed fundamentally in a way that was advantageous to Dutch trade, agriculture and industry. One could truly speak of Dutch primacy in world trade. This not only caused a significant boom for the Dutch economy, but also much resentment in neighbouring countries, like first the
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Dutch allies from sealing the deal; the Republic's annoyed negotiators felt the "selfish" French were stalling for time to gain more Spanish concessions over the back of the Dutch. The Dutch decided to conclude a separate peace with Spain on 30 January 1648, confirmed on 15 May 1648, while there was still no sign of Franco–Spanish rapprochement. And so the
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cities. Another factor was that the unpopularity of the Spanish army, which existed even before the start of the revolt, was exacerbated when in the early stage of the war a few cities were purposely sacked by the Spanish troops after having surrendered; this was done as a practice to intimidate the remaining rebel cities into surrender.
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after they proclaimed the Republic in 1588, expelled the Spanish forces and established peace, safety and prosperity for their population. In literature, the last few decades have often been considered a rather 'regulated' and 'professional' armed conflict in the borderlands of the Dutch Republic and
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The French and Dutch had originally agreed to join forces in negotiating with Spain. While the willing Dutch and Spanish had been able to establish the text of their peace treaty by January 1648, the French and Spanish still could not reach any agreements, and the French were trying to withhold their
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Van der Lem (1995): 'As soon as had been taken, the continuation of the 'Revolt' or 'Eighty Years' War' became a regulated war. The ideological element did retain a role, but disappeared to the background. (...) The course of the struggle is henceforth a military one, in which not all conquests and
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In 1635, the Dutch States-General and France had agreed: 'Rien ne sera conclué entre la France et l'Espagne, si en mesme temps le Traité d'entre l'Espagne et Messieurs les Estats n'est aussij conclud.' ("Nothing will be concluded between France and Spain, if not also the Treaty between Spain and the
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was removed: Subjects were no longer forced to follow the conversion of their ruler. Rulers were allowed to choose Catholicism, Lutheranism, or Calvinism. 1 January 1624 was defined as the normative date for determining the dominant religion of a state. All ecclesiastical property was to be restored
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situation that had already existed for a long time. In the Dutch Republic, the peace was solemnly promulgated on 5 June 1648, on the 80th anniversary of the execution of the Counts of Egmont and Horne, and celebrated across most of the country with sumptuous festivities. The province of Zeeland and
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The Peace of Westphalia marked the start of a new period of European history, in which a far larger number of wholly or partially sovereign princes of the Holy Roman Empire than before would play a role in the political arena for centuries to come. This also increased the risk of conflicts between
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Dutch trade on the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean exploded in the decade after the peace, as did trade in general, because trade patterns in all European areas were so tightly interlocked via the hub of the Amsterdam EntrepĂ´t. Dutch trade in this period reached its pinnacle; it came to
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As the revolt and its suppression centered largely around issues of religious freedom and taxation, the conflict necessarily involved not only soldiers, but also civilians at all levels of society. This may be one reason for the resolve and subsequent successes of the Dutch rebels in defending
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in the territories that would coalesce into the Dutch Republic changed radically during the war. In the chaotic early decades of the revolt, there were numerous opportunities for social and political advancement by people from lower classes, especially if they managed to become accomplished
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Parker (1985, 46) cites Granvelle commenting that "people here universally display discontent with any and all Spaniards in these provinces" in a letter to Philip II of 10 March 1563, and refers to Margaret of Parma's objections to Alva's intention of billeting his "unpopular
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the established church were guaranteed the right to practice their faith in private, as well as in public during allotted hours. The independence of the Dutch Republic, which practiced religious toleration, also provided a safe haven for European Jews.
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The Dutch States-General, for dramatic effect, decided to promulgate the ratification of the Peace of MĂĽnster (which was actually ratified by them on 15 May 1648) on the 80th anniversary of the execution of the Counts of Egmont and Horne, 5 June
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continued to be devastated by decades of uninterrupted warfare, with armies forcing farmers to hand over their food, or destroying their crops to deny food to the enemy. Both parties levied taxes on farmers in the still-contested environs of
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on the Republic in 1672. They almost succeeded in destroying the Republic in that year, but the Republic rose from its ashes and by the turn of the century, she was one of the two European power centres, together with the France of king
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had managed to take over the positions of power that the old nobility once wielded. The situation in the eastern Netherlands was quite different: the traditional rural nobility still had a more powerful position than the urban regenten.
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remained under Spanish Habsburg sovereignty. Whereas the Spanish Empire and the Southern Netherlands along with it were financially and demographically ruined, declining politically and economically, the Dutch Republic became a global
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them, and therefore France and Sweden were given the status of generally accepted powers of guaranteeing the peace. Although this was a first attempt at a European security system, it would turn out not to be particularly effective.
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Soon after the conclusion of the peace the political system of the Republic entered a crisis. The same forces that had sustained the Oldenbarnevelt regime in Holland, and that had been so thoroughly shattered after
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This article is about the short- and long-term effects of the war. For how the Eighty Years' War has been seen after it started, and debates between historians how to write about the war, see
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was agricultural and poor, but there were large differences between classes, with rich Brabanders often having families living above the Great Rivers and participating in trade and the
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The chaotic and dramatic early decades of the Eighty Years' War, which were filled with civil revolts and large-scale urban massacres, largely ended for the provinces north of the
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the Spanish Southern Netherlands, which is less interesting to recount, because the ideological struggle had essentially been decided. However, the countryside in especially
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The upper and middle classes of the Republic, especially in the provinces of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, prospered during this time and experienced the so-called
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calling it "null, void, invalid, iniquitous, unjust, damnable, reprobate, inane, empty of meaning and effect for all time" in the
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and, later, France. Soon, the Republic was embroiled in military conflicts with these countries, which culminated in their
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the city of Leiden, who had been opposed to peace, refused to hold celebrations, but did promulgate the peace treaty.
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army that was even paid when no hostilities were taking place, a radical innovation in that time and part of the
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of 1555, in which each prince had the right to determine the religion of his own state (the principle of
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The success of the Dutch Republic in its struggle to get away from the Spanish Crown had damaged Spain's
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This is argued by M. Roberts in "The Military Revolution, 1560–1660" (inaugural lecture, Belfast 1955).
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obtained independence from not just their previous Habsburg overlords, but also the Holy Roman Empire.
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independence from the Holy Roman Empire, although in both cases it was just a formalisation of a
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faction. This faction had slowly been gaining prominence during the 1640s until they had forced
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rose to prominence in the Dutch Republic, significantly increasing its international standing.
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than other societies in Europe, with high wages and low prices, providing citizens with high
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van der Lem, Anton (1995). "Het verhaal van de Opstand. Hoofdstuk 6: De geregelde oorlog".
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Unie – Bestand – Vrede. Drie fundamentele wetten van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden
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to the condition of 1624. Christians living in principalities where their denomination was
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had been severely reduced again, as a new class of merchant aristocracy, known as the
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and achieved a high level of prosperity for its upper and middle classes known as the
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was given legal recognition as an official religion. All parties would recognise the
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to support the peace. And now they wanted their peace dividend. The new stadtholder,
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The Dutch revolt against their lawful sovereign, most obviously illustrated in the
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were split in two, with the northern Protestant-dominated Netherlands becoming the
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Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of MĂĽnster
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As newly emerging commercial world powers, the Dutch Republic and the
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Portugal was no party in the 1648 Peace of MĂĽnster, and the overseas
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Larry Jay Diamond; Marc F. Plattner; Philip J. Costopoulo (2005).
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of this bull, meaning "Zeal of the house of God", quotes from
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The Count-Duke of Olivares. The Statesman in an Age of Decline
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of 1651 decided to appoint no new stadtholder, commencing the
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On the other hand, the Hispano–Dutch Peace Treaty of Münster (
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The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477–1806
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were stripped from him and bestowed upon the rulers of the
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the right of German princes to choose their state religion
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Mulder, Liek; Doedens, Anne; Kortlever, Yolande (2008).
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Geschiedenis van Nederland, van prehistorie tot heden
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after the Dutch conquered it in 1629. Towns such as
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However, the 1557:Act of Seclusion 1445:Peace of MĂĽnster 1435:Military outcome 1413:Diego de Rosales 1297:Military effects 1291:Dutch Golden Age 1287:commercial power 1270:Peace of MĂĽnster 1216:2nd San Salvador 1211:1st San Salvador 1184:2nd Saint Martin 1154:1st Saint Martin 163: 161: 151: 144: 137: 128: 127: 120: 113: 109: 106: 100: 98: 57: 33: 25: 2842: 2841: 2837: 2836: 2835: 2833: 2832: 2831: 2812: 2811: 2805: 2781: 2780: 2771: 2770: 2763: 2761: 2744: 2742: 2740: 2719: 2697: 2674: 2658: 2653: 2652: 2644: 2640: 2632: 2619: 2611: 2600: 2592: 2588: 2580: 2573: 2562: 2558: 2545: 2541: 2531: 2529: 2516: 2515: 2511: 2501: 2499: 2492: 2488: 2487: 2480: 2470: 2468: 2464: 2453: 2447: 2443: 2435: 2426: 2418: 2411: 2403: 2399: 2391: 2380: 2372: 2361: 2353: 2349: 2341: 2334: 2326: 2322: 2310:, Boom, p. 68. 2305: 2301: 2293: 2284: 2268: 2267: 2260: 2252: 2248: 2240: 2233: 2217: 2216: 2212: 2204: 2197: 2189: 2185: 2175: 2173: 2152: 2148: 2137: 2136: 2132: 2127: 2123: 2113: 2109: 2099: 2097: 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2478: 2441: 2439:, p. 131. 2424: 2422:, p. 139. 2409: 2397: 2395:, p. 138. 2378: 2359: 2347: 2345:, p. 151. 2332: 2320: 2299: 2297:, p. 131. 2295:Groenveld 2009 2282: 2258: 2256:, p. 157. 2254:Groenveld 2009 2246: 2244:, p. 156. 2242:Groenveld 2009 2231: 2210: 2208:, p. 146. 2206:Groenveld 2009 2195: 2193:, p. 144. 2191:Groenveld 2009 2183: 2164:(in Spanish). 2146: 2130: 2121: 2107: 2061: 2043: 2042: 2040: 2037: 2034: 2033: 2023: 2013: 2000: 1989: 1988: 1986: 1983: 1964: 1961: 1949:Staats-Brabant 1925:Staats-Brabant 1880: 1877: 1818: 1815: 1802: 1799: 1797: 1794: 1786:Zelo Domus Dei 1762:ius reformandi 1744:state religion 1725:Dutch Republic 1711:was confirmed. 1701:Dutch Republic 1680: 1677: 1642:Grand Assembly 1623: 1620: 1588: 1585: 1573: 1570: 1568: 1565: 1522:Dutch Republic 1436: 1433: 1429:Gabriel Guarda 1401:1673 rebellion 1397:Catalan Revolt 1389:1591 situation 1349: 1346: 1303: 1300: 1298: 1295: 1278:Dutch Republic 1262:Spanish Empire 1248: 1247: 1245: 1244: 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Eighty Years' War
Origins
List of battles
1566–1572
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Wattrelos
Lannoy
Oosterweel
Dahlen
Heiligerlee
Jemmingen
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