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Birth
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Ruled spain from 1519-1556
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Birth
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Charles V was at the end of his reign and decided to give Austria and The Empire to Ferdanand I, his brother.
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Charles V gives the Bankrupt states of the Netherlands and Spain to his son Philip.
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Ferdinand took over Charles’s imperial functions in 1555 and was elected emperor in 1558 after his brother’s abdication. With his accession, the Habsburg domains became separated into more easily governable Austrian and Spanish parts
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Inflation throughout Europe in the sixteenth century was a broad and complex phenomenon, but the flood of bullion from the Americas was the main cause of it in Spain. Under Philip's reign, Spain saw a fivefold increase in prices. Due to inflation and a high tax burden for Spanish manufacturers and merchants Spanish industry was harmed and Spain’s riches were frittered away on imported manufactured goods by an opulent, status-obsessed aristocracy and Philip's wars
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Death
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The States-General of the Dutch provinces, united in the 1579 Union of Utrecht,[18] passed an Oath of Abjuration of their Spanish-based king, who was also Sovereign over the Netherlands, in 1581. The Netherlands at this time had been a personal union under King Philip, since the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549; he was lord of each separate Dutch Province (for example, Duke of Guelders and Count of Holland). The rebel leader, William I, Prince of Orange ("William the Silent") was outlawed by Philip, a
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During his reign, Philip II stretched his empire across continents, creating one of the vastest empires ever known and re-shaping the political map of the world. On the one hand, this imperial project played havoc on the lives of many in the New World, seizing their land, their gold, and destroying their cultural heritage and sometimes enforcing conversion to Christianity.
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King Philip II of Spain, who intended to sail with his navy and army, a total of around 30,000 men, up the English Channel to link up with the forces led by the Duke of Parma in the Spanish Netherlands. From there they would invade England and bring the country under the Catholic rule of Spain.
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Death
