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30 The Romans
founded the city of Tournai in Belgium.
274 Germanic Peoples take advantage of the destroyed Roman armies of the Rhine
. They pillage and depopulate large areas of Gaul
, including Paris
. The Rhine border is lost for 20 years. Franks
live in the area of present southern Netherlands
, northern Belgium and Rhineland from now on.
963 Luxembourg
is founded, and the Belgium area becomes part of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
1252 The town and monastery of Orval in Belgium burn to the ground; rebuilding takes 100 years.
1425 Foundation of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
1576 Eighty Years' War
: In Belgium, Spain
captures Antwerp
(after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
1790 William Pitt refuses to recognize Belgian
independen
1830 The Provisional Government in Brussels declares the creation of the independent state of Belgium, in revolt against the government of the Netherlands
.
1830 Recognition of the Independence of Belgium by the Great Powers.
1831 Inauguration of Léopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians
.
1831 Dutch invasion of Belgium. It is repelled by a French
army (ten-day campaign).
1835 In Belgium a railway is opened between Brussels
and Mechelen. It is the first railway in continental Europe. (See Rail transport in Belgium)
1839 Half of the Limburg province of Belgium was added to the Netherlands
, since 1839 there is a Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg.
1839 The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom
.
1840 Fortsas hoax - number of book collectors gather to Binche, Belgium to attend a non-existent book auction of the late "Count of Fortsas"
1892 Master criminal Adam Worth is captured in Liège
, Belgium during an attempted robbery of a money delivery cart.
1893 General strike
in Belgium
1900 Strikes in Belgium and Germany
lead to mining riots
1900 Anarchist shoots at the Prince of Wales
during his visit to Belgium in the birthday celebrations of the king of Belgium.
1904 Roger Casement publishes his account of Belgian
atrocities in Congo
1914 German troops invade neutral Belgium. Britain
declares war on Germany after the latter fails to respect Belgian neutrality. The United States
declares neutrality.
1914 World War I
: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp
, Belgium falls to German
troops.
1915 World War I
: Second Battle of Ypres - German
troops introduce poison gas at Ypres, Belgium.
1915 World War I
: British
nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German
firing squad for helping Allied
soldiers escape from Belgium.
1917 World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
1918 November 22 — Belgian
royal family returns to Brussels
after the war
1923 Troops from France
and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany
to pay its reparation payments
1923 Launch of Belgium's SABENA
Airlines
1924 First revenue flight for Belgium's SABENA
Airlines.
1924 8-hour work day in Belgium
1934 Léopold III
becomes King of Belgium.
1939 Mining strike in Borinage, Belgium
1940 Brussels
falls to German
forces; Belgian
government flees to Ostend.
1944 The British
11th Armored Division liberates the city of Antwerp
in Belgium.
1946 Female suffrage in Belgium, Romania
, Yugoslavia
, Argentina
and Canadian province of Quebec
. First female police officers in Korea and Japan.
1951 Baudouin takes the oath as king of Belgium, after his father abdicated the day before.
1952 Marshall Aid ends.
, West Germany
, Italy
, Belgium, Luxembourg
and the Netherlands
form the European Coal and Steel community
, the foundation organisation what will become the European Union
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1959 Royal wedding in Belgium: Prince Albert marries the Italian princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria.
1960 June 30 — Belgian Congo
gains independence
from Belgium — civil war follows.
1960 December 15 — Royal wedding in Belgium: King Baudouin of Belgium
marries Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragon.
1960 Belgium threatens to leave the United Nations
, due to criticism of its Congo
policy.
1961 A Sabena
Boeing 707
crashes near Brussels
, Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States
figure skating
team and several coaches.
1962 Belgium reestablishes diplomatic relations with Congo
.
1965 Desteldonk becomes a part of Ghent
(East Flanders, Flanders
, Belgium)
1966 The Belgian
government resigns.
1966 NATO
decides to move SHAPE headquarters to Belgium.
1967 The ''Innovation'' department store in the centre of Brussels
(Belgium) burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, which results in 323 dead and missing and 150 wounded.
1967 Georges Bidault moves to Belgium where he receives political asylum.
1971 May 5 – The US dollar floods the European currency markets and threatens especially the Deutsche Mark; the central banks of Austria
, Belgium, Netherlands
and Switzerland
stop the currency trading.
1972 Belgian
cyclist Eddy Merckx sets a new world hour record in Mexico City
.
1987 A cross-channel ferry
capsizes outside the harbor off Zeebrugge, Belgium - 180 drown.
1993 King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office 9 days after the death of his brother, King Baudouin.
2000 June 10 : The 2000 European Football Championship begins, hosted jointly by Belgium and the Netherlands
.
2001 Belgium's SABENA
Airlines goes bankrupt.
2003 The Antwerp Diamond Center in Belgium opens its vaults after the weekend, and discovers that unknown burglars had stolen diamond
s worth $100 million (the largest diamond theft so far).
2005 Spain
joins Belgium and the Netherlands in permitting same-sex marriage
.
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