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Events relating to belgium
Rubens returns from Italy to Antwerp, where he soon establishes Europe's most successful and prolific studio
A shipload of Puritans, among them some of the future Pilgrim Fathers, sail from Boston in Lincolnshire to seek religious freedom in Holland
The 19-year-old Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck is employed by Rubens in Antwerp as his chief assistant
Holland and England are now producing the magnificent ocean-going merchant vessels known as East Indiamen
In the aftermath of the War of the Spanish Succession, the Spanish Netherlands are transferred to Austria
The French commander Maurice de Saxe succeeds in occupying the entire Austrian Netherlands
After their success at Valmy, French republican armies overrun much of the Austrian Netherlands
The English and Prussian generals Wellington and Blücher defeat Napoleon in a closely fought battle at Waterloo
Jacques-Louis David, unmistakably identified as Napoleon's painter, is banished from France after the fall of the emperor and moves to Brussels
Verlaine is sentenced to two years in prison, at Mons in Belgium, after shooting and wounding Rimbaud in a drunken rage in Brussels
Leopold II hosts a conference in Brussels on the subject of opening up the African continent
Dutch painter Vincent Willem van Gogh moves from Antwerp to Paris
The Australian soprano Nellie Melba makes her operatic debut as Gilda in Rigoletto in Brussels
Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck publishes his play Pelléas et Mélisande
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
Belgian physiologists Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou identify Bacillus pertussis, the bacterium causing whooping cough
International outrage at Congo atrocities forces Belgium to annexe King Leopold's private colony
Austrian artist Gustav Klimt completes his designs for mosaics in the Palais Stoclet in Brussels
German troops move into Luxembourg and demand passage through neutral Belgium
German troops invade Belgium, violating her guaranteed neutrality
Bound by treaty to defend Belgium, Britain declares war on Germany
A Germany army reaches and enters the Belgian capital, Brussels
The British Expeditionary Force fights a rearguard action to escape encirclement by the Germans at Mons
from September - the German and French armies, attempting to outflank each other, engage in a race to the sea
from October - there are heavy casualties on both sides, and a small advantage to the Allies, in the fighting round Ypres during the 'race to the sea'
