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The Benelux countries also work together in the so-called Pentalateral Energy Forum, a regional cooperation group formed of five members—the Benelux states, France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Formed on 6 June 2007, the ministers for energy from the various countries represent a total of 200 million residents and 40% of the European ...
Belgium beat the world record for time taken to form a new democratic government after an election, at 353 days. [157] Finally a government coalition was sworn in on 6 December 2011, with Socialist Elio Di Rupo becoming prime minister. [158]
Ussher chose 5 BC as Christ's birth year [7] because Josephus indicated that the death of Herod the Great occurred in 4 BC. [8] Thus, for the Gospel of Matthew to be correct, Jesus could not have been born after that date. The season in which Creation occurred was the subject of considerable theological debate in Ussher's time. Many scholars ...
The old Anno Mundi calendar theoretically commenced with the creation of the world based on information in the Old Testament. It was believed that, based on the Anno Mundi calendar, Jesus was born in the year 5500 (5500 years after the world was created) with the year 6000 of the Anno Mundi calendar marking the end of the world.
Death of Reginar, Duke of Lorraine, at his palace in Meerssen; succeeded by his son Giselbert. [3]: 45 918: 10 September: Death of Baldwin II, Margrave of Flanders at Blandijnberg; succeeded by his son Arnulf. 925: Henry the Fowler invades Lotharingia and receives oaths of loyalty from the local aristocracy. [3]: 46 936: 7 August
This American pastor based his prediction on the prior suggestion that Jesus would return in 1988, i.e., within one biblical generation (40 years) of the founding of Israel in 1948. Beshore argued that the prediction was correct, but that the definition of a biblical generation was incorrect and was actually 70–80 years, placing the second ...
Maria Valtorta (14 March 1897 – 12 October 1961) was a Catholic Italian writer. She was a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who reported personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus Christ.
Luxembourg remained a possession of the kings of the Netherlands until the death of William III in 1890, when the grand duchy passed to the House of Nassau-Weilburg due to the 1783 Nassau Family Pact, under which those territories of the Nassau family in the Holy Roman Empire at the time of the pact (Luxembourg and Nassau) were bound by semi ...