Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Morris introduced the term in 1964 when he started a series about the history of comics in Spirou. Belgium's comic-strip culture has been called by Time magazine "Europe's richest", while the Calgary Sun calls Belgium "the home of the comic strip". Belgium has several museums dedicated to comic books, comic book heroes and their authors.
At first reluctant to accept, [21] he eventually took up the offer, and after an enthusiastic popular welcome on his way to Brussels, [22] Leopold I of Belgium took his oath as king on 21 July 1831. 21 July is generally used to mark the end of the revolution and the start of the Kingdom of Belgium. It is celebrated each year as Belgian National ...
He married Claire Coombs, an Anglo-Belgian former land surveyor, on 12 April 2003, who was created HRH Princess Claire of Belgium 11 days before their wedding. They have one daughter and two sons: Princess Louise of Belgium; Prince Nicolas of Belgium; Prince Aymeric of Belgium; Princess Delphine of Belgium (born 22 February 1968).
Under the Belgian Constitution, the Belgian monarch is styled "King of the Belgians" (French: Roi des Belges, Dutch: Koning der Belgen, German: König der Belgier) rather than "King of Belgium" in order to reflect the monarchy's constitutional and popular function. Since 1831, there have been seven Kings of the Belgians and two regents.
His son, Prince William V, was the last stadtholder of the republic, whose own son, King William I, became the first king of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which was established on 16 March 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars. With the independence of Belgium on 21 July 1831, the Netherlands formally became the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Constitutional crisis: King Baudouin suspended as king for 36 hours after refusing to sign a law legalising abortion 1991: 18 July: Assassination of Socialist politician André Cools. [174] 24 November: 1991 Belgian general election: 1992: Dirk Frimout is the first Belgian in Space 1993: 31 July: King Baudouin of Belgium dies in Motril 9 August
These two measures obviously aimed to deepen the separation between Luxembourg and Belgium but were added to the Germanisation factors inherent in the constitutional problem and the crucial issue of the country's economic ties with its neighbors; enclosed by customs duties, the country risked suffocation. [4]
Belgium was one of the earliest participants of the Industrial Revolution, [19] [20] and the first country in continental Europe to become industrialised. [21] By the early 20th century, it possessed several colonies, notably the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi , [ 22 ] [ e ] which gained independence between 1960 and 1962. [ 24 ]