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Leopold II [a] (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.
King Leopold II, whose rule of the Congo Free State was marked by severe atrocities, violence and major population decline.. Even before his accession to the throne of Belgium in 1865, the future king Leopold II began lobbying leading Belgian politicians to create a colonial empire in the Far East or in Africa, which would expand and enhance Belgian prestige. [2]
Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant: Son 9 April 1835 Born 17 December 1865 Father died, became king None, 1835–1837 Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, 1837–1859, brother Prince Leopold, Count of Hainaut, 1859–1865, son Leopold II: Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant [1] Son 17 December 1865 Father became king 22 January 1869 Died
Leopold II King of the Belgians 1835–1909 r.1865–1909: Marie Henriette ... of Belgium 1858–1924: Leopold Duke of Brabant 1859–1869: Rudolf Cr. Prince of Austria
Cartoon by British caricaturist Francis Carruthers Gould depicting King Leopold II, and the Congo Free State A 1906 Punch cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne depicting Leopold II as a rubber snake entangling a Congolese rubber collector. Leopold ran up high debts with his Congo investments before the beginning of the worldwide rubber boom in the ...
Sculptural busts of the first five Belgian monarchs in the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces. This is a list of Belgian monarchs from 1831 when the first Belgian king, Leopold I, ascended the throne, after Belgium seceded from the Kingdom of the Netherlands during the Belgian Revolution of 1830.
Equestrian statue of King Leopold II in Brussels, Belgium Leopold's son, King Leopold II , is chiefly remembered for the founding and capitalization of the Congo Free State as a personal fiefdom. There was scandal when the atrocities in the Congo Free State were made public, causing the Free State to be taken over by the Belgian Government.
Marie Henriette of Austria (Marie Henriette Anne; 23 August 1836 – 19 September 1902) was Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Leopold II.The marriage was arranged against the will of both Marie Henriette and Leopold and became unhappy due to their dissimilarity, and after 1872 the couple lived separate lives, though they continued to appear together in public.