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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.
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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 diamonds 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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