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While the Brussels metropolitan area grew quickly, the population of the City of Brussels proper declined considerably. In 1910, Brussels had 185,000 inhabitants; in 1925 this number fell to 142,000. The reasons for this depopulation were manifold. First, the fetid stench of the disease-laden Senne river caused many to leave the city. [80]
The first walls of Brussels (French: première enceinte, Dutch: eerste stadsomwalling) were a series of fortifications erected around Brussels in the early 13th century. The city quickly outgrew them, and starting in 1356, a second, larger set of walls was built to better enclose and defend the city.
14 October: The second March on Brussels against Francisation is held. [67] Construction of the Rogier International Centre, 18 March 1963. 1963 – 2 August: The city becomes part of the bilingual Brussels-Capital administrative area. [69] 1965 The Maison du Peuple/Volkshuis is demolished and is replaced with the Sablon Tower [nl; fr]. [4]
The following is a timeline of the history of Brussels, Belgium. Prehistory. 10,000–2600 BCE ...
View of the Brussels Zoological Garden, 1856 Celebrations for Belgian National Day in Brussels, 21 July 1856. 1856 28 March: The reconstructed Royal Theatre of La Monnaie opens. 11 June: The Société royale belge des aquarellistes is founded under the chairmanship of Jean-Baptiste Madou. Drawing of a crowd on the Grand-Place during the ...
Francization (in American English, Canadian English, and Oxford English) or Francisation (in other British English), also known as Frenchification, is the expansion of French language use—either through willful adoption or coercion—by more and more social groups who had not before used the language as a common means of expression in daily life.
A gradual Francisation of the population began in the 19th century and continued throughout the 20th century, as French emerged as the dominant language of the city. The local dialect of Brussels includes some loanwords from Dutch, as well as expressions that have been translated into French.
The City of Brussels [a] is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, as well as the capital of the Flemish Region (from which it is separate) and Belgium. [2] The City of Brussels is also the administrative centre of the European Union, as it hosts a number of principal EU institutions in its European ...