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Prior to the creation of the Congo Free State, the International Association of the Congo (IAC) had signed treaties with over 300 native Congolese chiefs and in effect exercised sovereignty over a large area of the Congo Basin. The IAC was headquartered in Belgium and run by a committee under the presidency of Maximilien Strauch.
The following lists events that happened during 1950 in the Belgian Congo. Incumbents. Governor-general – Eugène Jungers; Events. Date Event
1890s • 1900s in the Congo Free State • 1910s in the Belgian Congo • 1920s • 1930s • 1940s • 1950s • 1960s in the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) • 1960s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo • 1970s in Zaire • 1980s • 1990s • 1990s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo • 2000s
Congo Free State printing office at Boma, circa 1890s-1900s. Records prior to 1906 remain scarce. "As early as 1888 Leopold II created an archival service for his Congo Free State that operated as part of the Departement de l'Interieur at Brussels. The king established the archives as his personal property, however; and in 1906 the major part ...
It was only in the 1950s that metropolitan troops—i.e., units of the regular Belgian army—were posted in the Belgian Congo (for instance in Kamina). The colonial state—and any authority exercised by whites in the Congo—was often referred to by the Congolese as bula matari ("break rocks"), one of the names originally given to Stanley .
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The Belgian Congo, today the Democratic Republic of the Congo, highlighted on a map of Africa. Colonial rule in the Congo began in the late 19th century. King Leopold II of Belgium, frustrated by Belgium's lack of international power and prestige, attempted to persuade the Belgian government to support colonial expansion around the then-largely unexplored Congo Basin.
Belgian Congo c. 1954 showing the main language groups in each region. The Districts of the Belgian Congo were the primary administrative divisions when Belgium annexed the Congo Free State in 1908, each administered by a district commissioner. In 1914 they were distributed among four large provinces, with some boundary changes.