Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Juyin juya halin addini na Gyara ya barke cikin tashin hankali a watan Agusta 1566, kamar yadda yake a wasu sassan Low Countries. An kori Margaret, Duchess na Parma, lokacin da Philip II ya aika da Duke na Alba a kan jagorancin sojojin a lokacin rani na gaba. Sa'ad da Yaƙin Shekara tamanin ya ɓarke a shekara ta 1568, kasuwanci tsakanin Antwerp da kuma tashar jiragen ruwa na Bilbao na Spain ya lalace kuma ya zama abin da ba zai yiwu ba. A ranar 4 ga Nuwamba, 1576, sojojin Spain sun kori garin a lokacin da ake kira Spanish Fury
: An kashe 'yan kasa 7,000, an ƙone gidaje 800, kuma an yi asarar sama da fam miliyan 2.