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Periodicals. Annales de la Société d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 14 (Brussels, Alfred Vromant) [3]; Scholarship. Maurice De Wulf, Histoire de la Philosophie Médiévale (Leuven, Paris and Brussels) [4]
By the 1900s, Belgium was a major exporter of trams and other rail components, exporting vast quantities of railway materials. In South America, 3,800 kilometers of track were owned by Belgian firms, with a further 1,500 kilometers in China. [60]
This is a timeline of Belgian history, including important legal and territorial changes and political events in Belgium and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Belgium .
An international campaign against the Congo Free State began in 1890 and reached its apogee after 1900 under the leadership of the British activist E. D. Morel. On 15 November 1908, [1] under international pressure, the Government of Belgium annexed the Congo Free State to form the Belgian Congo. It ended many of the systems responsible for the ...
In 1880 and 1905, Belgium was a signatory to the Madrid Convention and the Algeciras Conference on Morocco. Thus, from 1925 to 1940 and from 1945 to 1956, Belgium was one of the nine nations that administered the Tangier International Zone. The last two administrators (1954–1956) were Belgian, Belgium was also subordinate to the customs and ...
In southeast Belgium, along the border with Luxembourg and Prussia (later Germany), was the heavily forested and agricultural region known as the Ardennes. In 1784, Belgium's population was 2.6 million, with just 25 percent living in cities. During the 19th century, the population both expanded and urbanized. [4]
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Full general elections were held in Belgium on 27 May 1900. [1] They were the first elections under a proportional system (using the D'Hondt method) instead of a majority system, [2] with Belgium becoming the first country in the world to adopt proportional representation for parliamentary elections. Single-member constituencies were replaced ...