Ghent: Timeline

1477   Mary of Burgundy marries Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

Maximilian I of Habsburg [i] was Holy Roman Emperor [i]. ... 

 in Ghent, bringing her Flemish and Burgundian lands into the Holy Roman Empire Holy Roman Empire

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 and detaching them from France France

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1584   Ghent falls to the Spanish Spain

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1965   Desteldonk becomes a part of Ghent (East Flanders, Flanders Flanders

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, Belgium Belgium

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