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36 matches to Belgian Congo
Zaire. Bantu. 1482 Portugal explores. 1885 Personal holding of Leopold II = Congo Free State. 1908 Belgian Congo. 1960 Independent. 1971 =Zaire. 1997 Democratic Republic of Congo.
Albert I. 1875-1932. King of Belgians, 1909. Led army WWI. Introduced universal male suffrage.
Béguines. 12C- Belgian Catholic women’s charitables communities. Condemned 1311. Still exist.
Bollandists. 1629-. Belgian Jesuits. Update Acta Santorium, (Lives of Roman Catholic saints).
Bordet, Jules. 1870-1961. Belgian bacteriologist, immunologist.
Brabant Revolution. 1789-90. Belgians vs Hapsburgs. Crushed by Austrian forces.
Congo Conference. 1884. Bismarck mediates. Congo comes under Belgian sovereignty.
Ensor, James. 1860-1949. Belgian painter and engraver. Pessimistic fantasy and social commentary.
Franck, César. 1822-90. Belgian/French organist, Romantic composer.
Gramme, Zénobe. 1826-1901. Belgian inventor of the dynamo 1869.
Lassus, Roland de. 1531-94. Composer of masses, madrigals in Franco-Belgian style.
Lemaître, Georges. 1894-1966. Belgian cosmologist. Big Bang theory of creation 1927.
Leopold I. 1790-1865. First King of Belgians 1831-. Maintained neutrality.
Leopold II. 1835-1909. King of Belgians 1865-. Ruled Congo ruthlessly.
Leopold III. 1901-83. King of Belgians 1934-51. German prisoner 1940-5. Abdicated.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1908-. Belgian/French ethnologist. Theory of Symbolic Structures: Mythologiques 1964-8.
London Treaty. 1674 Holland, England end War. 1824 Netherlands, Britain for control of Malaya. 1827 Britain, France, Russia to force mediation on Turkey/Greek freedom fighters. 1831 Belgian War of Independence. 1832 Britain, France, Bavaria made Otto I, King of Greece. 1852 Danish Succession. 1867 Luxembourg independence granted. 1871 Ended neutrality of Black Sea. 1913 Ended first Balkan War. 1915 (Secret) Britain-France-Russia grant concessions to Italy for joining WWI allies. Revealed by Bolsheviks 1918.
Luxembourg. 1C BC Rome. 459 Franks. 963 Independent county «Holy Roman Empire. 1354 Duchy. 1443 Burgundy. 1472~1795 Hapsburg. 1555 Spanish. 1684 French. 1697 Spanish. 1714 Austrian. 1795 French. 1815 Dutch «German Confederation. 1839 Belgian(W)/Autonomous. 1867 Independent neutral. 1914-18, 1940-44 German occupation. 1948 Neutrality ends.
Maeterlinck, Maurice. 1862-1949. Belgian Symbolist poet/playwright. Pelléas et Mélisande 1892.
Magritte, René. 1898-1967. Belgian Surrealist painter. Ceci n’est pas un pipe 1948. Castle of the Pyrenees 1962.
Quintuple Treaty. 1839. Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, Russia guaranteed Belgian integrity. London Treaty.
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. German dynasty includes Belgian Leopold I 1831-; Albert, Prince-Consort, England. 1840-; Ferdinand, Prince-Consort, Portugal. 1836-; Prince of Bulgaria 1887-1946.
Simenon, Georges. 1903-89. Belgian writer of political and detective novels. Commissaire Maigret.
Solvay, Ernst. 1838-1922. Belgian chemist and philanthropist.