Charles V Begins to Abdicate
October 25, 1555
In a tearful ceremony at Brussels, the exhausted emperor handed the Low Countries to his son Philip. Over the next year he would surrender Spain, the Americas, and finally the imperial title, and retire to a monastery at Yuste in Extremadura with his clocks and a flock of Flemish tapestries.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.