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Flag Date Use Description 1908–1960: Flag of the Belgian Congo: A blue flag with yellow five-pointed star. 1936–1960 [4] Standard of the governor-general of the Belgian Congo: A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red, with a yellow star in the upper left canton on a blue field.
1830 in Belgium; Belgian Revolution; Flag of Belgium; List of Belgian flags; List of constituent assemblies; List of flags of Luxembourg; List of oldest universities in continuous operation; List of revolutions and rebellions; List of shipwrecks in December 1830; List of wars: 1800–1899; List of wars involving Belgium; List of wars involving ...
The flag on the Belgian Federal Parliament building. As Belgium is a federal state, the flag of Belgium and the flags of the communities or regions in principle occupy the same rank. [1] Nonetheless, when flags are raised and lowered or carried in a procession, the national flag takes precedence over all the others. [1] The order of precedence ...
The off-centred blue cross is based on the Nordic Cross, widely used on Nordic national flags. The blue colour is symbolic of blue skies, and the thousands of lakes in Finland. The white represents the winter snows. 1794–1814 1830– Flag of France See also: List of French flags: It was officially adopted on 15 February 1794.
Marie Abts-Ermens (10 April 1767 in Kortenberg – 11 September 1853 in Brussels) was a Belgian seamstress, best remembered for sewing together the first version of the Flag of Belgium on 26 August 1830. [1] [2] [3] On May 8, 1802, she married François Abts, a ribbon maker residing at the Grand-Place in Brussels, who was ten years younger than ...
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.
In 1885, Ghevont Alishan, an Armenian Catholic priest and historian proposed 2 Armenian flags. One of which is a horizontal tricolor flag of red-green-white, with red and green coming from the Armenian Catholic calendar, with the first Sunday of Easter being called "Red Sunday", and the second Sunday being "Green Sunday", with white being added for design reasons.
During the 19th century, the Belgian government began a program of producing artworks, literature, symbols, and rituals which would solidify the new state. [6] Therefore, between 1834 and 1835, Wappers was commissioned by the government to create Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830 in order to extol the Belgian past. [6] [7] [8]