Act of Abjuration

Name: Act of Abjuration
Start: 1581

The United Provinces depose their sovereign: one of the first texts asserting that power serves the people.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1581 — the context national timelines leave out.

16 years earlier The Great Siege Malta
7 years later Statute of Lithuania Belarus
8 years earlier Warsaw Confederation Poland
12 years earlier Union of Lublin Poland
21 years later First joint-stock company Netherlands
2 years earlier University of Vilnius Lithuania
10 years earlier Ottoman conquest of Cyprus Cyprus
15 years earlier Old Bridge of Mostar Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Renaissance 1400 – 1600 Printing, humanism, and the opening of ocean routes.
Reformation and wars of religion 1517 – 1648 Christendom splits and Europe is redrawn.

Countries involved

Netherlands

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What was written of it

Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.

Déclaration du 9 mai 1950 1950

Schuman Declaration, Salon de l’Horloge, Paris