1856 in Belgium information

Events in the year 1856 in Belgium. Monarch: Leopold I Head of government: Pierre de Decker 1 May – Railway line between Brussels and Ghent completed...

Partial general elections were held in Belgium on 10 June 1856. In the elections for the Chamber of Representatives the result was a victory for the Catholics...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1856. 1856 (MDCCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...

Belgium had a population of 11,190,846 people on 1 January 2015 as compared to the 10,839,905 people on 1 January 2010, an increase of 601,000 in comparison...

abolition of slavery in Moldavia and Wallachia in 1856. Roma in Belgium were deported to Auschwitz along with Jews on December 16, 1942. "Belgium". European Commission...

Beer in Belgium includes pale ales, lambics, Flemish red ales, sour brown ales, strong ales and stouts. In 2018, there were 304 breweries in Belgium, including...

Belgians, reigning from 21 July 1831 until his death in 1865. The youngest son of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Leopold took a commission in...

For most of its history, what is now Belgium was either a part of a larger territory, such as the Carolingian Empire, or divided into a number of smaller...

Heylen (born 1994), Belgian footballer Syd Heylen (1922–1996), Australian actor and comedian Thomas Louis Heylen (1856–1941), Belgian Roman Catholic bishop...

following is a list of those who have served as foreign ministers of Belgium. Website:Diplomatie.belgium.be Facebook:Diplomatie.Belgium Twitter:Belgium MFA...

the premier of Belgium is the head of the federal government in the Kingdom of Belgium. Although leaders of Government (French: Chefs de Cabinet) had...

Elections in Belgium are organised for legislative bodies only, and not for executive functions. Direct elections take place for the European Parliament...

double) is a Belgian Trappist beer naming convention. The origin of the dubbel was a strong version of a brown beer brewed in Westmalle Abbey in 1856, which...

The Belgian nobility comprises Belgian individuals or families recognized as noble with or without a title of nobility in the Kingdom of Belgium. The Belgian...

Wauters [fr] (1890–1960), Belgian government minister Camille Wauters (1856–1919), Belgian painter Charles Augustin Wauters (1808–1869), Belgian painter Eddy Wauters...

(Wapelbach), a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Georges Rodenbach (1855–1898), Belgian author Albrecht Rodenbach (1856–1880), Belgian author Rodenbachfonds...

The Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge, pronounced [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; Dutch: Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence...

investiture of Leopold I as the first King of the Belgians in 1831. In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, Belgium became part of the United Netherlands. After...

In the history of Belgium, the period from 1789 to 1914, dubbed the "long 19th century" by the historian Eric Hobsbawm, includes the end of Austrian rule...

her status as the only daughter of the King of the Belgians, made her a desirable match. In 1856, as she was preparing to celebrate her sixteenth birthday...