general elections were held in Belgium on 24 May 1914. The result was a victory for the Catholic Party, which won 41 of the 88 seats up for election in...

year 1914 in Belgium. Monarch - Albert I Prime Minister: Charles de Broqueville May 24 May – Belgian general election, 1914 July 25 July – General mobilisation...

protect Belgium in the event of war. On 2 August 1914, the German government requested that German armies be given free passage through Belgian territory...

the Belgian Labour Party (POB–BWP) to pressure the government of Auguste Beernaert to introduce universal male suffrage in elections. The general strike...

General elections were held in Belgium on 16 November 1919. Although the Belgian Labour Party received the most votes in the Chamber of Representatives...

considerable sympathy for the Belgian civilian population in occupied Belgium. The sympathy for the plight of Belgian civilians and Belgian refugees continued in...

Full general elections were held in Belgium on 2 June, 1912. Catholics had formed the government continuously since 1884. Minister Schollaert had drafted...

1830 Belgian Revolution, establishing the modern Belgian state, officially recognized at the London Conference of 1830. The first King of Belgium, Leopold...

provincial elections, in the expectation that it would recommend the suppression of plural voting. The German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 and the...

The Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge, pronounced [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; Dutch: Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence...

municipal elections only, if living in Belgium for at least five years; this right was introduced in 2004 after extensive political debate. Belgian citizens...

site of the Belgian monarchy Official site of the Belgian federal government Belgium. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Belgium at UCB Libraries...

UAV Squadron (Belgium) - 1920 Summer Olympics – 1931 Belgian Grand Prix - 1935 Belgian Grand Prix - 1947 Belgian Grand Prix - 1949 Belgian Grand Prix -...

July 1960, the Belgian Congo became independent as the Republic of the Congo (République du Congo). Colonization of the Congo Basin Belgian colonial empire...

koning-ridder), had been hugely popular in Belgium after commanding the Belgian army during World War I (1914–18) while much of the country was under German...

partition of Belgium is a hypothetical situation, which has been discussed by both Belgian and international media, envisioning a split of Belgium along linguistic...

Vienna added the territory of Belgium to the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 1830, with the Belgian Revolution, the Belgian provinces declared their...

the doctrinal basis for the Belgian socialists from 1894 until 1979. Before 1919, the district system in Belgian elections made it almost impossible for...

threat of the 1848 revolutions in Belgium was posed by Belgian émigré groups. Shortly after the revolution in France, Belgian migrant workers living in Paris...

officiated for Major League Baseball from 1890 to 1914 (b. 1862) The United States general elections were held to elect members for the 64th United States...

felt that a general war would not occur), resulted in an outbreak of hostilities amongst most of the major European states by early August 1914. Following...

Brigadier General Arthur Melland Asquith, DSO & Two Bars (24 April 1883 – 25 August 1939) was a senior officer of the Royal Naval Division, a Royal Navy...

by War Van Overstraeten and the Belgian Communist Party led by Joseph Jacquemotte, following a split from the Belgian Workers Party. At the time of its...

end of 1914, over 95% of the country was occupied but the Belgian Army held their lines on the Yser Front throughout the war. In the Belgian Congo, 25...

victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914. After his appointment as First Quartermaster General of the Army General Staff in 1916, he became the chief policymaker...

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...

Sécurité (SGRS) is the Belgian military intelligence service under responsibility of the Minister of Defence. It is one of two Belgian intelligence services...

renounced the alliance with France. The end of the Franco-Belgian alliance was the end of Franco-Belgian staff talks, which complicated Gamelin's efforts to...

Hindenburg rose to become a lieutenant general by 1900. In 1911, Hindenburg retired. After World War I began in 1914, Hindenburg was recalled and achieved...

lawsuits they had brought against the Belgian State in the context of the succession of their father Leopold II. The Belgian sovereigns maintained cordial relations...