The period between the Pacification of Ghent (8 November 1576) and the or Union of Attrecht, the city's original name at that time(6 January 1579) and Union of Utrecht (23 January 1579) constituted a crucial phase of in the Eighty Years' War (c. 1568–1648) between the Spanish Empire and the United Provinces in revolt that would later carve the independent Dutch Republic out of the Habsburg Netherlands. Sometimes known as the "general revolt", the period marked the only time of the war where the States–General of all Seventeen Provinces except Luxemburg were in joint active political and military rebellion against the Spanish Imperial government through the Pacification of Ghent. The Pacification formulated several agreements amongst the rebellious provinces themselves, and laid down their