The beginning of the bourgeois revolution in the Netherlands is …

The bourgeois revolution in the Netherlands began in 1556. This revolution also turned into a liberation struggle of the Netherlands against Spanish hegemony. Thus, the revolution turned into a war. The struggle for liberation has been going on for almost 100 years, and only at the end of the Thirty Years War the Netherlands were able to achieve their goal. They managed to gain their independence, as well as gain the captured territories during the war.