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  1. 1 day ago · Today, according to annual tradition, Flanders celebrates the Holiday of the Flemish Community of Belgium. This day commemorates the Battle of the Golden Spurs on 11 July 1302, when the French army suffered an historic defeat at the hands of a Flemish people's army. "At one time, this battle was presented as the story of Flemish liberation, but ...

  2. 3 days ago · The bishopric of Liège (in present-day eastern Belgium) was ruled as a separate principality by its prince-bishops, as had been the case since the Middle Ages. During the revolt against Spain, Liège maintained a strict neutrality and continued to do so through most of the 17th and 18th centuries.

  3. 2 days ago · On this day, 3 December 1930, the death toll from a mysterious heavy fog in the Meuse Valley in Belgium rose to 64 people. On a cold December morning, the Meuse Valley awoke to a heavy fog engulfing the entire country and large swathes of northern Europe.

  4. 3 days ago · The often-forgotten Seven Sorrows Rosary came to light again 40 years ago in Kibeho when Our Lady again asked for it through the visionaries, and now through Rwandan genocide survivor Immaculée Ilibagiza.

  5. 3 days ago · The Southern Netherlands rebelled during the 1830 Belgian Revolution, establishing the modern Belgian state, officially recognized at the London Conference of 1830. The first King of Belgium, Leopold I, assumed the throne in 1831.

  6. 4 days ago · The book – in Dutch “1942, Het jaar van de stilte” or “1942, The year of silence” – refers to the year when Belgian authorities kept silent about the Nazi persecutions of Jewish people, and when some on the local level collaborated willingly with the occupation force.

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  8. 3 days ago · But for a long time, one monument in memory of Belgium’s colonial rule in Africa has been missing. This was partly corrected this year on 23 April 2018, when Brussels City Council decided to name a square after the tragic figure of Patrice Lumumba.

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