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    Partial general elections were held in Belgium on 13 June 1882. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 79 of the 138 seats in the Chamber...
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    Legislative elections were held in Belgium in June and July 1884, for partial Chamber and full Senate elections respectively. Voter turnout was 79.1%...
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    Partial general elections were held in Belgium on 8 June 1880. In the elections for the Chamber of Representatives the result was a victory for the Liberal...
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    municipal elections only, if living in Belgium for at least five years; this right was introduced in 2004 after extensive political debate. Belgian citizens...
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    Parliament elections in Belgium will be held on 26 May, the same day as the regional and federal elections. In the European elections there are three Belgian constituencies:...
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  • psychiatrist Eveleen Mary Weldon Severn (1882–1942), American philatelist Evelien Evelien Bosmans (born 1989), Belgian actress Evelien Gerrits (born 1985)...
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  • five types of elections in the United Kingdom: elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom (commonly called 'general elections' when all seats...
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    the Belgian Congo. In addition, a number of major Belgian investment companies pushed the Belgian government to take over the Congo and develop the mining...
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    half-Senate election to try to break the deadlock. When he sought the Governor-General's approval of the election, the Governor-General instead dismissed...
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    Peter Jan Beckx (category 19th-century Belgian Jesuits)
    was a Belgian Jesuit priest, elected the twenty-second Superior-General of the Society of Jesus in 1853. Beckx was born born in Zichem, Belgium, two months...
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    Flanders (1919–21), Lippens was recruited to serve as Governor-General of the Belgian Congo (1921–23) in which capacity he launched a major administrative...
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  • (from 1882, renamed International Association of the Congo (AIC), a front for the ambitions of Belgian King Leopold II, not supported by the Belgian government...
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    Edward VII (category Spanish captain generals)
    acquitted by a Belgian court because he was underage. The perceived laxity of the Belgian authorities, combined with British disgust at Belgian atrocities...
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    required a limited incursion into the Belgian Ardennes, rather than a full-scale invasion; in September 1911, the Belgian Foreign Minister told a British Embassy...
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    Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (born 1811) (category Colonel generals of Prussia)
    served as commanding general of the VII Army Corps; on 31 May 1859 he attained the rank of general of infantry. The parliamentary election of 1861 ended with...
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    Fourth Army's breach of the Hindenburg Line and an Anglo-Belgian offensive, led by General Sir Herbert Plumer's British Second Army, in Flanders). Instead...
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    Jean-Charles Houzeau (category Belgian emigrants to the United States)
    1888) was a Belgian astronomer and journalist. A French speaker, he moved to New Orleans after getting in trouble for his politics in Belgium. In the U...
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    the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Principality was ruled by the Obrenović dynasty (replaced...
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    William Massey (category Unsuccessful candidates in the 1893 New Zealand general election)
    general election in the Franklin electorate, losing to the Liberal candidate, Benjamin Harris. In early 1894 he was invited to contest a by-election in...
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    former King Louis-Philippe), Boulanger was made a brigadier-general in 1880, and in 1882 Minister of War Jean-Baptiste Billot appointed him director of...
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    Labour could form a majority government if a general election was held. However, Callaghan ruled out an election in September 1978, and within weeks a series...
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  • 83), American country music singer. René Magritte (1898–1967; aged 68), Belgian surrealist artist. Henry Mancini (1924–1994; aged 70), American film composer...
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  • Frederick W. Haultain (category 1882 deaths)
    December 9, 1882) was a British Army officer and political figure in Canada West. He was born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1821 to Major General Francis Haultain...
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    1871 (although he retained the role symbolically until the legislative elections of February 1871). Trochu was born at Le Palais on the island of Belle-Île-en-Mer...
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    illegitimate son, Horatio. In 1860, his mother married for a second time a Belgian, Jean Alexis Opdebeck. There is some evidence to suggest that Clinton himself...
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  • Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. Son of John Hartwell Cocke. Henry Clay Ide (1844–1921), Vermont State Senator 1882, Governor-General of the Philippines...
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    Dessart (born 1980), Belgian cyclist Marie André Destarac (born 1981), Guatemalan scientist Marie Detruyer (born 2004), Belgian footballer Marie Devellereau...
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    J. Hamilton Lewis (category Candidates in the 1912 United States presidential election)
    attended several colleges, studied law, and attained admission to the bar in 1882. He moved to Washington Territory in 1885, where he became active in politics...
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    fashion towards the Belgian people. His book had chapters dedicated to rebutting the stories about the "mutilated nurse", the "Belgian baby without hands"...
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    majority control of the Diet in the 1915 general elections, but regained its majority in the 1917 general elections. In 1918, Prime Minister Terauchi Masatake...
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