# 92 Brabant - Principal cities: Brussel & Mechelen

owner = BUR
controller = BUR 
capital = "Brussel"
citysize = 45000
culture = flemish
religion = catholic
hre = yes
base_tax = 11
trade_goods = cloth
manpower = 4
add_core = BRB
add_core = BUR
add_core = NED
university = yes
marketplace = yes
fort1 = yes
discovered_by = eastern
discovered_by = latin
discovered_by = muslim

1473.12.1  = { courthouse = yes } # Parliament of Mechelen, ahead of its time
1477.1.5   = { owner = HAB controller = HAB add_core = HAB remove_core = BUR revolt_risk = 4 } # Charles the Bold dies, Lowlands to Austria
1488.1.1   = { controller = REB } # Revolt of the Brabant cities
1492.7.12  = { controller = HAB revolt_risk = 0 } # Peace of Cadzand, power of the cities broken
1500.1.1   = { citysize = 60000 }
1519.1.14  = { owner = SPA controller = SPA add_core = SPA remove_core = HAB }
1520.1.1   = { fort2 = yes }
1528.1.1   = { revolt_risk = 5 } # Charles V begins to raise taxes
1528.3.4   = { controller = REB } # Brussels revolts against Charles V
1528.3.9   = { controller = SPA } # Charles V retakes the city
1529.1.1   = { revolt_risk = 0 } # Peace returns
1546.1.1   = { temple = yes } # Works on the Saint Rombouts Cathedral in Mechelen stopped, considered finished
1550.1.1   = { citysize = 65000 }
1559.5.12  = { revolt_risk = 3 } # New bishoprics in the Lowlands create an outrage
1565.1.1   = { revolt_risk = 5 } # Letters of Segovia, Philip I advocates harsh persecution of Calvinists
1566.4.5   = { revolt_risk = 3 } # 'Eedverbond der Edelen', Margaretha of Parma promises leniency
1566.8.1   = { revolt_risk = 4 } # 'Beeldenstorm' at hand
1567.9.10  = { revolt_risk = 5 } # Counts of Egmont & Hoorne arrested
1568.6.5   = { revolt_risk = 7 } # Counts of Egmont & Hoorne beheaded
1569.1.1   = { revolt_risk = 9 } # The Duke of Alba reforms the taxation system ('tiende penning')
1570.1.1   = { revolt_risk = 12 constable = yes } # The Duke of Alba reforms the penal procedure, 'Blood Council' (Bloedraad) established
1572.6.5   = { controller = REB revolt_risk = 4 } # Louis of Nassau captures Mechelen
1572.8.15  = { controller = SPA revolt_risk = 12 } # Don Felip lays waste to Mechelen
1577.2.12  = { revolt_risk = 10 } # 'Perpetual Edict' (Eeuwig Edict) accepted by Don Juan
1577.9.23  = { controller = REB } # William of Orange enters Brussels triumphating
1579.1.23  = { controller = NED revolt_risk = 0 }
1585.5.4   = { revolt_risk = 5 } # Alessandro Farnese captures Mechelen & Brussels in quick succession
1600.1.1   = { fort3 = yes citysize = 61000 }
1630.1.1   = { workshop = yes }
1648.1.30  = { controller = SPA remove_core = NED revolt_risk = 0 } # Peace of Mnster/Westphalia
1650.1.1   = { customs_house = yes citysize = 89000 }
1665.9.17  = { add_core = FRA } # Louis XIV's father-in-law, Philip IV of Spain, dies
1672.5.10  = { controller = FRA } # France blitzes through the Lowlands in the Franco-Dutch War
1678.9.19  = { controller = SPA } # Peace of Nijmegen (France-Spain)
1700.1.1   = { citysize = 102000 }
1706.5.23  = { controller = ENG } # Marlborough defeats the French at Ramillies
1707.5.12  = { controller = GBR }
1713.4.11  = { owner = HAB controller = HAB add_core = HAB remove_core = SPA } # Treaty of Utrecht
1715.9.1   = { remove_core = FRA } # Louis XIV passes away
1718.1.1   = { fort4 = yes }
1719.2.1   = { controller = REB } # Under the guidance of guildmaster Anneesens, Brussels revolts against the Austrian taxation policy
1719.9.19  = { controller = HAB } # Revolt suppressed, Anneesens executed
1725.1.1   = { tax_assessor = yes }
1746.10.11 = { controller = FRA } # Marchal Saxe launches a succesful offensive
1748.10.18 = { controller = HAB } # Peace of Aachen
1750.1.1   = { regimental_camp = yes citysize = 78000 }
1789.1.1   = { revolt_risk = 15 } # 'Brabantse Omwenteling' at hand
1789.6.18  = { controller = REB } # The 'Brabant Revolution' (Brabantse Omwenteling) against Joseph II starts
1790.1.10  = { controller = HAB revolt_risk = 0 } # Leopold II sacks Brussels
1792.12.1  = { controller = RFR } # Conquered by the French troops under Dumouriez
1793.3.18  = { controller = HAB } # Reconquered by Prince Josias of Coburg
1797.10.17 = {	owner = RFR
		controller = RFR
		add_core = RFR
		remove_core = HAB
	     } # The Treaty of Campo Formio, the Austrian Netherlands are ceded to France 
1798.10.12 = { controller = REB } # The Flemish Peasant Rebellion
1798.12.5  = { controller = RFR }
1800.1.1   = { citysize = 94000 }
1806.7.12  = { hre = no } # The Holy Roman Empire is dissolved
1814.4.11  = {	owner = FRA
		controller = FRA
		add_core = FRA
		remove_core = RFR
	     } # Treaty of Fontainebleu, Napoleon abdicates unconditionally
1815.3.16  = {	owner = NED
		controller = NED
		add_core = NED
		remove_core = FRA
	     } # The United Kingdom of the Netherlands
