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In 2005, the Belgian revolution of 1830 was depicted in one of the highest value Belgian coins ever minted, the 100 euro "175 Years of Belgium" coin. The obverse depicts a detail from Wappers' painting Scene of the September Days in 1830.
25 August – Belgian Revolution begins; September. 24 September – Provisional Government of Belgium formed; October. October – Garde Civique formed to maintain public order; 4 October – Provisional government proclaims Belgian independence. [1] [2] 17 October – Decree of the provisional government prohibiting importation of jenever ...
The siege of Antwerp took place after fighting in the Belgian Revolution ended. On 15 November 1832, the French Armée du Nord under Marshal Gérard began to lay siege to the Dutch troops there under David Chassé. The siege ended on 23 December 1832. The French had agreed with the Belgian rebels that the latter would not participate in the ...
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] Between 1830 and 1875 the population of Brussels grew from 100,000 to 180,000, [5] and by 1910 the population of the metropolitan area soared to 750,000. [6]
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution.. The Revolutions of 1830 were a revolutionary wave in Europe which took place in 1830. It included two "romantic nationalist" revolutions, the Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the July Revolution in France along with rebellions in Congress Poland, Italian states, Portugal and ...
Siege of Antwerp (1832), conducted by French forces against a Dutch garrison after the Belgian Revolution's Ten Days' Campaign. The Siege of Antwerp, an 1840 painting by Horace Vernet depicting the 1832 siege; Siege of Antwerp (1914), conducted by German forces against a Belgian and British garrison during World War I.
The Provisional Government (Dutch: Voorlopig Bewind; French: Gouvernement provisoire) was the first iteration of the Belgian state, formed in the midst of the Belgian Revolution. After Dutch forces were expelled from Brussels on 27 September 1830, the recently-created Revolutionary Committee transformed into the Provisional Government. The ...
A key turning point when it was used specifically to refer to the southern part of the Netherlands was during the so-called "Brabant revolution" or "First Belgian Revolution" in 1790. This terminology was revived after the better known revolution of 1830, when modern Belgium broke out of the post-Waterloo kingdom of the Netherlands.