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Bruges: Municipality: Bruges: ... Belgium. It was a separate municipality until 1899. In 1899, it was merged into Bruges. [1] St. Peter's church.
Richard August François Declerck (31 December 1899 – 12 March 1986) was a Belgian lawyer and politician. He was governor of the province of Antwerp from 7 January 1946 until 31 December 1966. Political career
Gruuthuse, seen from the east. Presumably in the 13th century a rich family from Bruges received the monopoly to levy taxes on gruit and built a structure to store it. The building was changed in the early fifteenth century by Jan IV van der Aa to a luxury house for his family, which subsequently changed its name to "Van Gruuthuse" ("From the Gruit house").
Guido Gezelle, poet and priest (1830–1899) Louis Delacenserie, architect (1838–1909) Eugène Goossens, père, conductor (1845–1906) Albin van Hoonacker, Catholic theologian and Biblical scholar (1857–1933) Frank Brangwyn, Welsh artist, painter, colourist, engraver, and illustrator (1867–1956)
Albrecht De Vriendt (Ghent, 8 December 1843 – Antwerp, 14 October 1900) – Belgian painter known for his genre scenes, history paintings, interiors and figure paintings The de Vriendt brothers (Juliaen Joseph (1842–1935) and Albrecht François Lieven (1843–1900))
1815 – Bruges becomes part of the Netherlands. [4] 1821 – Fish Market, Bruges built on the Steenhouwersdijk . [1] 1830 – Bruges becomes part of Belgium. [4] 1837 – Journal de Bruges French-language newspaper begins publication. [10] 1838 – Brugge railway station opens. 1839 – Société d'émulation de Bruges founded.
14 February – Belgian Antarctic Expedition research vessel Belgica freed from Antarctic ice. 28–30 June – Violent protests in Brussels demanding introduction of universal manhood suffrage with proportional representation. [2] 29 July – Belgium among the 26 signatories to the Hague Convention
Several men lost their sanity, including one Belgian sailor who left the ship "announcing he was going back to Belgium". The party also suffered from scurvy. On 15 February 1899, the vessel was able to begin moving through the channel that the crew had cleared. It took them nearly a month to cover 7 miles, and on 14 March they cleared the ice.