 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1925 |
| | | Treaties signed at Locarno, in Switzerland, aim to stabilize and guarantee Germany's borders with France and Belgium | |
| |
|
| 1927 |
| | | The Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte has his first one-man show, at the Galerie Centaure in Brussels | |
| |
|
| 1929 |
| | | The Tintin comic strip, by Hergé, begins with Tintin in the Land of the Soviets | |
| |
|
| 1931 |
| | | In Pietr-Le-Letton, the first novel published under his own name, the Belgian writer Georges Simenon introduces Inspector Maigret | |
| |
|
| 1939 |
| | | A British Expeditionary Force (BEF) of about 150,000 infantry crosses the Channel to help defend France's border with Belgium | |
| |
|
| 1940 May 10 |
| | | German tanks cross the borders into neutral Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium | |
| |
|
| 1940 May 10 |
| | | After the German invasion of the Netherlands and Belgium, Winston Churchill replaces Chamberlain as the British prime minister | |
| |
|
| 1940 May |
| | | A German army races west through northern France, aiming to cut off the Allied troops in Belgium | |
| |
|
| 1940 May 27 |
| | | The Belgians surrender to the German armies encircling them north and south | |
| |
|
| 1944 September 3 |
| | | British forces liberate Brussels and on the next day reach Antwerp | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |