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| 1886 |
| | | Dutch painter Vincent Willem van Gogh moves from Antwerp to Paris | |
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| 1887 |
| | | The Australian soprano Nellie Melba makes her operatic debut as Gilda in Rigoletto in Brussels | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck publishes his play Pelléas et Mélisande | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Belgian racing driver Camille Jenatzy is the first to drive faster than a mile a minute, reaching 65 mph in an electric car at Achères in France | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Belgian physiologists Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou identify Bacillus pertussis, the bacterium causing whooping cough | |
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| 1908 |
| | | International outrage at Congo atrocities forces Belgium to annexe King Leopold's private colony | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Austrian artist Gustav Klimt completes his designs for mosaics in the Palais Stoclet in Brussels | |
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| 1914 August 2 |
| | | German troops move into Luxembourg and demand passage through neutral Belgium | |
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| 1914 August 4 |
| | | German troops invade Belgium, violating her guaranteed neutrality | |
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| 1914 August 4 |
| | | Bound by treaty to defend Belgium, Britain declares war on Germany | |
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