Abdication of Charles V
1555 · Event
Worn out by forty years of war, the emperor publicly gives the Netherlands to his son Philip and announces he will lay down all his crowns; in 1556 Spain passes to Philip and the Empire to his brother Ferdinand, splitting the dynasty into its two great branches.
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