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Jan 1, 1349
Jewish exicution
The Duke of Brabant ordered the death of all Jews in Brussels. He accused them for poisoning the wells. Which later led to the massacre of all Jews in Belgium so this is important because this leaded to problems with the Jewish population. this photo is from israelwhat.com -
Jan 1, 1477
Austrians take over
Maximilian, the ruler of Austria became married to Mary of Burgundy and Belgium was brought under the rule of Austria, but later was freed by neighbouring countries because it was the heart of Europe and because of its fertile lands this is important because this shaped later Belgium. this photo is from crossed-flag-pins.com -
Jan 1, 1506
Belgian Empire getting bigger?
A bit after Belgium was taken over by Austria, Maximilian's grandson, Charles the Bold inherited the Netherlands and made the empire even bigger. This is important to the history and well being of Belgium because when the Belgian empire fell Belgium still had some of its land and if it never inherited Holland then it would have been smaller. this photo is from wwp.greenwichmeantime.com -
Jan 1, 1516
Inherriting spain
Later on when Charles the Bold became king he inherited Spain making the Belgian empire pretty big, when he did this he was supported with Spain’s naval forces making Belgium stronger. This is important because over history Belgium was beat up and bullied and with the power of Spain on its side well let’s just say Spain saved them from being bullied. this photo is from map-of-spain.co.uk -
Jan 1, 1519
Our leader is the holy roman emperor
The leader of the empire, Charles the Bold became the Holy Roman Emperor. this is important because the leader of there empire becoming the holy roman emperor just makes Belgium more supported. this photo is from ivarfjeld.wordpress.com -
Feb 7, 1522
Spliting
later treaties were established so when this happened the Treaty of Brussels was made and was called Habsburgers this treaty did not go with the many little governments that they had. So the Spanish and Austrian Branches split and the Belgian empire was split in half. The rest of the empire went with the Austrians. This is important because this shaped Belgium, because it no longer had the supplies from Spain and they had to cope. -
Jan 1, 1566
religion wars
The Protestants in the country rebelled against the Catholic Church the rebellion was led by William the I, the Catholic Church was not going to fall so they sent thousands of Spanish soldiers to put down the rebellion. This is important because during the battle is just wasn’t to stop the rebellion it was also that Spain wanted to take over Belgium once again. this photo is from infiniteunknown.net -
our independence is gone
Belgium is finally a independent country by itself and with other countries trading and living together but Austria was greedy and took back Belgium so Belgium became under the rule of Austria once again. This is important because the government changed and everything started revolving around Austria. this photo is from crossed-flag-pins.com -
Independent
Well later when Belgium thought that they could be in the empire of Austria and they could be there on country (under the rule of Austria) so they started there Declaration of Independence and Henri Van der Noot and Jan Vonck helped write it. This is important because well this was helping Belgium become an independent country so the record of independence helped with a big portion in shaping Belgium. this photo is from clericalwhispers.blogspot.com -
Bye Bye Austria
After the making of the Declaration of Independence Belgium was growing stronger so the king and queen made something called the Brabant Belgium Revolution and with that they defeated the armies from Austria and drove them away. This is important because without this happening Belgium might be Austria still. this photo is from vector-images.com -
thank you france
Belgians formed the independent state called the Etats Belgiques Unis( which is Today’s Belgium but a bit bigger).but then Austria regained control of Belgium, but France came to the rescue and drove the Austrians out of Belgium and France took over, Then Belgium became a part of France. this phot is from cia.gov -
The making of a bigger belgium
After Napoleon was defeated and drove out of Belgium the government of Vienna decided that Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg should be united and make the land called “the empire of Belgium”. this photo is from sitesatlas.com -
the making of the many Governments
Leopold the I was made the King of Belgium and they became a independent country but since the diversity,four governments were made and they were Dutch, French ,German And the Brussels governments each equal in power but this wasn’t better it was worse so instead of 4 governments they made 4 governments and 3 Community’s all equal in power the community’s were Dutch, French and German the community’s were different, they were more about the people. this photo is from planetware.com -
The congo
when Leopold died his grandson took over King Leopold the II. He sent explorers to Africa and establishes the Congo Free State which became part of there empire they were wars but Belgium did take over the Congo. This is important because when Belgium created this it made its economy double even triple because of trading. this photo is from topnews.in -
Giving congo to the government
later on the United States forced the king to give control of the Congo to the Belgium Parliament so that they could open trading up to different areas and that made the Congo Free State switch its name to the Belgian Congo this photo is from topnews.in -
New king
King Albert the I became the new King of Belgium after Leopold gave up the crown. this photo is from theroyalforums.com -
WW1
Germany invades Belgium and by November Germany has complete control over all of Belgium when the king and queen surrendered. They chose to invade Belgium because it was a close sister country and well they wanted it. This is important to Belgium because this shaped Belgium by them supporting the axis and even fighting for them. this photo is from anzacday.org.au -
free
Allied forces drive Germany out of Belgium and Belgium is once again independent. this photo is from getfreecash.org -
WW2
Germany invades Belgium once again drawing them into World War II and again Belgium was forced to fight along side with the Germans and even some concentration camps were established in Belgium like Breendok. this photo is from serendipitous-readings.com -
Independent once again
Allied forces free Belgium from the axis and once again Belgium is a independent country and for the victory the allied forces forced that Germany give Belgium a large piece of land and they did making Belgium bigger. this photo is from all-free-download.com -
King has no power
Albert gave his crown to his son Baudouin and because of this, the parliament took over all of Belgium and with that the king and queen were striped of there power and they still don’t have any power. this photo is from shutterstock.com -
Congo is free
The Belgian Congo obtains independence from Belgium making the Congo free of Belgium rule but they did have to pay for there way into independents. this photo is from cia.gov -
ceaser taking over
57BC Belgium is named after a tribe that lived in the area now know as Belgium, they were the Belgie they were conquered by Juilias Caeser. this photo is from kaboodle.com -
Casers attack to the Belgians
54BC-53BC The Eburon, a type of Belgian tribe under the rule King Ambiorix won a victory against the Romans. Caesar claimed to have killed all the Eburones but what really happened is that the Eburones killed over 6,000 Roman soldiers in there small war. The Eburones lived in a kinda empire that later was known as Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. This is important because if they lost they might be part of Rome today. this photo is from zhoolfigure96.blogspot.com -
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The franks empire
Charlemagne's the ruler of the franks (germany), three grandsons divided the Frank empire between themselves into the German, Dutch and the French areas of the empire of Belgium. Which in modern day Belgium it is split into those three groups. this photo is from mightydemocracy.blogspot.com -
The spliting of Belgium
900s - 1000's the franks lost most of their power in the empire and these families took control over about half of the empire of Belgium: Flanders, Brabant, Hainaut, Limburg, and Namur. Which today are all provinces. this photo is from congoforum.be
