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    Partial general elections were held in Belgium on 11 June, 18 June and 15 July 1878. The result was a victory for the Liberal Party, which won 72 of the...
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  • Partial general elections were held in Belgium on Tuesday 13 June 1837 in which 51 of the 102 seats in the Chamber of Representatives were elected. Voter...
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  • General elections were held in Belgium on 29 August 1831. They were the first elections to the new bicameral parliament created by the constitution adopted...
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    Partial general elections were held in Belgium on 13 June 1876. In the elections for the Chamber of Representatives the result was a victory for the Catholic...
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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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    The papal conclave held from 18 to 20 February 1878 saw the election of Vincenzo Pecci, who took the name Leo XIII as pope. Held after the death of Pius...
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    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...
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    The Belgian Congo (French: Congo belge, pronounced [kɔ̃ɡo bɛlʒ]; Dutch: Belgisch-Congo) was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence...
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    succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and reigned for 44 years until his death, the longest reign of a Belgian monarch to date. He died without...
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  • 4-yearly whole council election cycle. General Council of Andorra (1867–1979) Chamber of Representatives and Senate of Belgium (1835–1919) Senate and...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1878. 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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  • Henri Carton de Tournai (category 1878 births)
    Georges Carton de Tournai (1878–1969) was a Belgian lawyer and Catholic Party politician who was a member of the Belgian Senate and Chamber of Representatives...
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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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    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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    requested. Belgian order of precedence List of diplomatic missions in Belgium List of diplomatic missions of Belgium Visa requirements for Belgian citizens...
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    Vienna added the territory of Belgium to the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 1830, with the Belgian Revolution, the Belgian provinces declared their...
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    International Association of the Congo (category Former Belgian colonies)
    November 1879 by Leopold II of Belgium to further his interests in the Congo. [dubious – discuss] It replaced the Belgian Committee for Studies of the Upper...
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    finished in 1885, when he was raised to the rank of general in the Ottoman Army. Before his election as mutessarif in September 1902, Czajkowski had been...
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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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    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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    Baudot. The Baudot apparatus was shown at the Paris Exposition Universelle (1878) and won him the Exposition's gold medal, as well as bringing his system...
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  • Lambert (name) (category Surnames of Belgian origin)
    footballer) (1920–1979), English footballer Eric Lambert (Belgian footballer) (1936–2020), Belgian footballer Erwin Lambert (1909–1976), Nazi SS officer and...
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    Parliament being dissolved within six months which led to a general election. The results of such elections were: 1727 – Robert Walpole held 1761 – the Duke of...
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    abroad. Primary elections, within registered political parties, are used to select presidential candidates for the general election. Primaries also use...
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    and Stevenson was narrowly defeated, getting 49.6 percent of the vote. In 1878, he ran on both the Democratic and Greenback tickets and won, returning to...
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    of the Rhodopes and Sakar. A publication from December 21, 1912, in the Belgian magazine Ons Volk Ontwaakt (‘Our Nation Awakes’) estimated 1,006,500 inhabitants...
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    competitive, the winner of the Democratic primary is favored to win in the general election given that Republicans have not won a Senate seat in the state of Maryland...
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    1964 general election. He lost his seat in the election but was appointed to the post anyway. He resigned after fighting and losing a 1965 by-election in...
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