Belgium: Timeline

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16th century
- 1598: Philip was now nearing his end, and in 1598 he gave his eldest daughter Isabel Albert in marriage to her cousin the archduke Albert, and erected the Netherlands into a sovereign state under their joint rule. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- 1598: Unfortunately they were childless, and the instrument of cession of 1598 provided that in case they should die without issue, the Netherlands - should revert to the crown of p S ain. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
17th century
- January 30, 1648: On the 30th of January 1648, Spain concluded a separate peace at Minster with the Dutch, by which Philip IV. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- 1692: Meanwhile from 1692 onwards brighter prospects were opened out to the unfortunate Belgians by the nomination by the Spanish king of Maximilian Emanuel, elector of Bavaria, to be governorgeneral with well-nigh sovereign powers. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- February 16, 1698: The death of the i nfant heir a few months later (6th of February 16 99) unfortunately destroyed any prospects of a peaceable settlement of the Spanish Succession. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- August 19, 1698: The position of the elector was greatly strengthened by the partition treaty of the 19th of August 1698. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
18th century
- 1706: The unhappy Bel is successes. g PPY g provinces were again doomed for a number of years to be the battle-ground of the contending forces, and it was on Belgic soil that Marlborough won the great victories of Ramillies (1706) and of Oudenarde (1708), by which he was enabled to drive the French armies out of the Netherlands and to carry the war into French territory. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- April 11, 1713: At the general peace concluded at Utrecht (11th of April 1713) the long connexion between Belgium and Spain was severed, and this portion of the Burgundian inheritance of Charles V. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- September 19, 1719: Beheaded on the 19th of September 1719. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- 1769: Among the numerous learned societies may be mentioned the Belgian Royal Academy founded in 1769 and revived in 1818. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- December 11, 1789: T. On the 11th of December 1789, the people of Brussels rose against the Austrian garrison, and compelled it to capitulate, and, on the 27th, the states of Brabant declared their independence. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- 1792: The armies of revolutionary France assailed Austria at her weakest point by an invasion of Belgium. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
19th century
- December 13, 1813: He resigned from the Confederation of the Rhine and sent his troops with his allies in 1814 and 1815 to Belgium and France. - Alexius Frederick Christian, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, Wikipedia.
- 1815: The reunification of the Low Countries as the United Kingdom of the Netherlands occurred at the dissolution of the First French Empire in 1815. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
- 1827: With the view of terminating these differences the king in 1827 entered into a concordat with the pope, and an agreement was reached with regard to nominations to bishoprics, clerical education and other questions, which should have satisfied all reasonable men. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- 1830: Matters were in this state when the news of the success of the July revolution of 1830 at Paris reached Brussels, at this time a city of refuge for the intriguing and discontented of almost every country of Europe. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- 1830: From this date until the Belgian revolt of 1830, the history of Holland and Belgium is that of two portions of one political entity, but in the relations of those two portions were to be found from the very outset fundamental causes 183v tending to disagreement and separation. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- 1830: The earlier Flemish authors are treated under DUTCH Literature; the revival of Flemish Literature since the separation of Belgium from the Netherlands in 1830, and Walloon Literature, are each separately noticed. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- January 28, 1831: On the 28th of January 1831, the congress proceeded to the election of a king, and out of a number of candidates the choice fell on the duke of Nemours, second son of Louis Philippe, but he declined the office. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- October 15, 1831: The limits of Belgium are fixed by the London protocol of the 15th of October 1831 - also called the twenty-four articles - which cut off what is now termed the grand duchy of Luxemburg, and also a good portion of the duchy of Limburg. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- 1832: The chambers argued that Belgium had been induced to agree to the twenty-four articles in 1832 in the hope of thereby at once terminating all harassing disputes, but as Holland refused then to accept them, the conditions were no longer binding and the circumstances were now quite changed. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- December 1, 1835: It moved its headquarters at Louvain on 1 December 1835 and then took the name of Catholic University of Leuven which did not take place without creating reactions in Belgium liberal society who was afraid to see this new university usurp the past of the former Old University of Louvain, which happened in effect. - Catholic University of Mechlin, Wikipedia.
- 1839: The British government declared its intention to maintain the integrity of Belgium in accordance with the treaty of 1839, and it induced the two belligerent powers to agree not to violate the neutrality of Belgian territory. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- November 17, 1843: He was President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives from 17 November 1843 until 20 May 1848. - Charles Liedts, Wikipedia.
- 1848: Hence it came to pass that Belgium passed safely through the crisis of the French revolution of 1848. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- November 23, 1860: He was member of the Belgian parliament and President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives from 23 November 1860 until 27 May 1863. - Désiré Vervoort, Wikipedia.
- December 15, 1863: He was President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives from 15 December 1863 until 23 October 1867. - Ernest Louis de Gonzague Vandenpeereboom, Wikipedia.
- 1870: On the outbreak of war between France and Germany in 1870, Belgium saw the difficulty and danger of her position, and lost no time in providing for contingencies. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- 1878: The Comite des Etudes du Haut Congo, formed in 1878 at the instance of the king and mainly financed by him had developed into the International Association of the Congo, of which a Belgian officer, Colonel M. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- February 23, 1885: Declarations to this effect were exchanged between the Belgian government and the Association on the 23rd of February 1885. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- 1885: The Berlin Conference of 1885 ceded control of the Congo Free State to King Leopold II as his private possession. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
- 1894: This elaborate system was only carried into law after considerable and violent opposition in the sessions of 1894 and 1895. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- 1894: The election of 1894 had given the Liberals a much smaller number of seats than they ought to have had according to the number of votes they polled, and a cry arose for the establishment of proportional representation. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- 1895: Primary education was dealt with in 1895 by a law, which made religious instruction obligatory, and extended state support to all schools that satisfied certain conditions. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
- October 15, 1897: The Order of the Crown is an Order of Belgium which was first created on 15 October 1897. - Order of the Crown (Belgium), Wikipedia.
- 1898: This recognition became official in 1898 and in 1967 a Dutch version of the Constitution was legally accepted. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
20th century
- 1900s
  - 1900: The Smet de Naeyer ministry which had held office since 1900 was defeated in April 1907 in a debate on the mining law over the proposal concerning the length of the working day. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
  - 1900: Laws were passed regulating the contract of labour, placing the workman on a footing of perfect equality with his employer, assuring the married woman free control of her savings, and organizing a system of old-age pensions. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
  - 1900: From around 1900 there was growing international concern for the extreme and savage treatment of the Congolese population under Leopold II, for whom the Congo was primarily a source of revenue from ivory and rubber production. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
  - 1904: The number of students inscribed for the academical year 1904-1905 at each university was Ghent 899, Liege 1983, Brussels 1082, and Louvain 2134, or a grand total of 6098. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
  - November 17, 1905: The count of Flanders, brother of the king, died on the 17th of November 1905, leaving his son Albert heir to the throne. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
  - November, 1907: The result was that in November 1907 a new treaty of cession was presented to the Belgian chambers, while in March 1908 an additional act modified one of the most objectionable features of the treaty - a clause by which the king retained control of the revenue of a vast territory within the Congo which he had declared to be his private property. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
  - September, 1908: A colonial law, also submitted to the chambers, secured for Belgium in case of annexation complete parliamentary control over the Congo state, and the bill for annexation was finally passed in September 1908. - Belgium, 1911encyclopedia.
  - October 10, 1908: It was incorporated into the Belgian honours system on 10 October 1908 following the annexation of the Congo Free State by Belgium. - Order of the African Star, Wikipedia.
- 1910s
  - 1911: The poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1911. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
  - October 17, 1914: She was attached temporarily to the Dover Patrol on 17 October 1914 for bombardment duties along the coast of Belgium in support of Allied troops fighting at the front, and on 3 November 1914 was detached to support the East Coast Patrol during the Gorleston Raid, then returned to the 5th Battle Squadron. - HMS Queen (1902), Wikipedia.
  - September 26, 1917: However, the battalion took part in the fighting around Polygon Wood near Ypres in Belgium during the Battle of Passchendaele. - 32nd Battalion (Australia), Wikipedia.
  - September 12, 1917: Bill Lundie was killed on September 12, 1917 on the killing fields of Passchendaele in Belgium. - Cricket in the Great War, Wikipedia.
- 1920s
  - September, 1920: The Canadian House of Commons established the committee in September 1920 with the mandate of selecting and establishing First World War memorial sites in France and Belgium. - Canadian Battlefields Memorials Commission, Wikipedia.
  - 1925: In the aftermath of the First World War, the Prussian districts of Eupen and Malmedy were annexed by Belgium in 1925, thereby causing the presence of a German-speaking minority. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
- 1940s
  - 1940: The country was again invaded by Germany in 1940 during the Blitzkrieg offensive and occupied until its liberation in 1945 by the Allies. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
  - September 3, 1944: It was reassigned to the 2nd British Army at short notice and moved to Belgium on September 3 and this allowed the Brigade to assist the liberation of its home country and southern Netherlands. - Free Belgian Forces, Wikipedia.
  - September, 1944: By September 1944 Allied forces had successfully broken out of their Normandy bridgehead and pursued shattered German forces across northern France and Belgium. - Battle of Arnhem, Wikipedia.
  - September, 1944: The division fought several rearguard actions during the retreat through France and Belgium, and in early September 1944, the exhausted unit was pulled out of the line for rest and refit near the Dutch city of Arnhem. - 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen, Wikipedia.
  - December 15, 1945: The squadron supported the Army until the end of the war when it was disbanded on 15 December 1945 at Melsbroek in Belgium. - No. 662 Squadron RAF, Wikipedia.
  - February 27, 1946: He was named by the bishops of Belgium as rector of the Pontifical Belgian College in Rome on 27 February 1946. - Maximilien de Furstenberg, Wikipedia.
- 1950s
  - August 27, 1950: The 4th European Athletics Championships were held from 23 August to 27 August 1950 in the Heysel Stadium of the Belgian capital Brussels. - 1950 European Athletics Championships, Wikipedia.
  - 1951: Belgium became one of the six founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 and of the European Atomic Energy Community and European Economic Community, established in 1957. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
  - September 15, 1951: Refloated and arrived on 15 September 1951 at Antwerp, Belgium for scrapping. - List of Empire ships (D), Wikipedia.
  - February 13, 1954: She struck the wreck of Empire Blessing off Knocke, Belgium and was holed. - List of Empire ships (Sa–Sh), Wikipedia.
  - 1958: A string of Christian Democrat coalition governments from 1958 was broken in 1999 after the first dioxin crisis, a major food contamination scandal. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
- 1970s
  - 1972: Belgium hosted the 1972 European Football Championships. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
  - 1973: The 1973 and 1979 oil crises sent the economy into a recession; it was particularly prolonged in Wallonia, where the steel industry had become less competitive and experienced serious decline. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
- 1980s
  - 1980: Although this would allow for seven parliaments and governments, when the Communities and Regions were created in 1980, Flemish politicians decided to merge both. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
  - October 13, 1985: The 13 October 1985 Belgian general elections was a Belgian election for the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and Belgian Senate. - Belgian general election, 1985, Wikipedia.
  - September 20, 1986: September 20, 1986 Brielpoort - Deinze Belgium - European Tour 1986, Wikipedia.
  - September 25, 1987: It was hosted in Eupen, Auderghem and Ghent, Belgium from September 25 to October 3, 1987. - 1987 Women's European Volleyball Championship, Wikipedia.
  - December 13, 1987: The 13 December 1987 Belgian general elections was a Belgian election for the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and Belgian Senate. - Belgian general election, 1987, Wikipedia.
- 1990s
  - November 24, 1991: The 24 November 1991 Belgian general elections was a Belgian election for the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and Belgian Senate. - Belgian general election, 1991, Wikipedia.
  - December 15, 1996: The 3rd European Cross Country Championships were held at Charleroi in Belgium on 15 December 1996. - 1996 European Cross Country Championships, Wikipedia.
21st century
- January 29, 2000: He was arrested in Belgium and handed over to the custody of the ICTR in Arusha, Tanzania. - Augustin Ndindiliyimana, Wikipedia.
- September 15, 2001: Born in Berdyansk in the Ukraine, Abakoumov became a naturalized Belgian citizen on 15 September 2001. - Igor Abakoumov, Wikipedia.
- September, 2003: At the end of September 2003 the first part of High Speed 1, a high speed link to the Channel Tunnel and on to France and Belgium, was completed, significantly adding to the rail infrastructure of the country. - Rail transport in Great Britain, Wikipedia.
- December 10, 2005: The third installment, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, will be directed by Michael Apted and co-produced and distributed in the United States, Canada, Argentina and Belgium by 20th Century Fox, is scheduled to be released on December 10, 2010. - The Chronicles of Narnia (film series), Wikipedia.
- February 21, 2006: The servers located in a Belgian datacenter were confiscated by the Belgian police, and their operator, who lives in Switzerland, was arrested. - Razorback2, Wikipedia.
- December 18, 2006: The first episode of Season 3 was aired December 18 2006, and the season finale was aired June 25 2007. - Belgium, Lostpedia_wikia.
- December 13, 2006: Belgian state TV station RTBF shows a spoof news report announcing the secession of Flanders and thus the dissolution of the Belgian state. - December 2006, Wikipedia.
- September 20, 2007: It was hosted in Charleroi and Hasselt, Belgium and Luxembourg from September 20 to September 30, 2007. - 2007 Women's European Volleyball Championship, Wikipedia.
- September 3, 2007: Fans had to wait until September 3 2007, when the season officially started airing on VT4, to see the second episode. - Belgium, Lostpedia_wikia.
- September 11, 2007: Belgian police arrest two leaders of the Vlaams Belang party, Frank Vanhecke and Filip Dewinter, as well as dozens of party supporters during a banned march in Brussels against the "Islamisation of Europe". - September 2007, Wikipedia.
- November 11, 2007: A majority of French citizens would support a union with the French-speaking Belgian region of Wallonia if Belgium were to cease to exist, according to a survey. - November 2007, Wikipedia.
- November 19, 2007: It was recorded at Ancienne Belgique in Belgium on 19 November 2007. - Live at Ancienne Belgique 19.11.07, Wikipedia.
- November 14, 2007: A delegation led by the presidents of the Belgian and Dutch national football associations met FIFA president Sepp Blatter on 14 November 2007, officially announcing their interest in submitting a joint bid. - 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids, Wikipedia.
- December 21, 2007: From 21 December 2007 until 20 March 2008 the temporary Verhofstadt III Government was in office. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
- December 19, 2007: Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt forms a temporary coalition government comprising five Socialist and Christian Democrat parties from both main language communities. - December 2007, Wikipedia.
- January 16, 2008: The Netherlands and Belgium confirmed that their countries would not sign the SAA (signatures are needed from all EU member states) until Serbia complied fully with the ICTY. - Accession of Serbia to the European Union, Wikipedia.
- January 19, 2008: He joined ACF Fiorentina in a swap deal for Belgian defender Anthony Vanden Borre, with the two clubs co-owning both players' rights. - Papa Waigo N'Diaye, Wikipedia.
- February 17, 2008: Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008 and Belgium recognized it on 24 February 2008. - Belgium–Kosovo relations, Wikipedia.
- March 20, 2008: This coalition of the Flemish and Francophone Christian Democrats, the Flemish and Francophone Liberals together with the Francophone Social Democrats was an interim government until 20 March 2008. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
- July 15, 2008: Leterme announced the resignation of the cabinet to the king, as no progress in constitutional reforms had been made. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
- September 28, 2008: Belgian bank Fortis NV is partly nationalised as part of an 11.4 billion euro rescue package funded by the Governments of Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. - September 2008, Wikipedia.
- November 18, 2008: He made his debut for the senior Belgium national football team in a friendly against Luxembourg on 18 November 2008. - Jeroen Simaeys, Wikipedia.
- December 30, 2008: At this juncture, his resignation was accepted and Flemish Christian Democrat Herman Van Rompuy was sworn in as Prime Minister on December 30, 2008. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
- December, 2008: He once more offered his resignation to the king after a crisis surrounding the sale of Fortis to BNP Paribas. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
- December 14, 2008: The 15th European Cross Country Championships were held at Brussels in Belgium on 14 December 2008. - 2008 European Cross Country Championships, Wikipedia.
- December 30, 2008: A Belgian politician of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party, he served as the 49th Prime Minister of Belgium from 30 December 2008 until his predecessor (Yves Leterme) succeeded him on 25 November 2009. - Herman Van Rompuy, Wikipedia.
- March 10, 2009: The first episode of Season 5 was aired March 10 2009. - Belgium, Lostpedia_wikia.
- September 13, 2009: Kim Clijsters of Belgium defeats Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark to win the 2009 US Open Women's Singles. - September 2009, Wikipedia.
- November 19, 2009: After Herman Van Rompuy was designated the first permanent President of the European Council on 19 November 2009, he offered the resignation of his government to King Albert II on 25 November 2009. - Belgium, Wikipedia.
- January 18, 2010: She will start promoting Bad Boys and Overcome around Europe in late January and will start her European Promo Tour in Belgium on 18 January 2010. - Bad Boys (Alexandra Burke song), Wikipedia.

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