X-Nico

5 unusual facts about Belgian Revolution


Adèle Kindt

Her Épisode des journées de septembre 1830, portraying a scene from the Belgian Revolution of 1830, is considered her masterpiece and is on display in the Brussels city museum on the Grand Place

Jean Roemer

He was destined for the army, and served on the Dutch side throughout the Belgian Revolution, a war of secession between Holland and Belgium.

Leopold Quarter

In the wake of the Belgian Revolution in 1830, the new members of the Belgian upper class hoped to create a new prestigious residential area in the capital.

Revolution of 1830

The Belgian Revolution in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands leading to the creation of Belgium

Thomas Sidney Cooper

Because of the Belgian Revolution he returned to London, and by showing his first picture at the Royal Academy (1833) began an unprecedentedly prolonged career as an exhibitor.


Belgian Navy

When after the Belgian Revolution, the country became independent in 1830, a Dutch squadron blocked the Scheldt estuarium.

Flag of Belgium

On August 26, 1830, the day after the rioting at the Brussels Opera and the start of the Belgian Revolution, the flag of France was flown from the city hall of Brussels.

Jacob Gijsbertus Samuël van Breda

Here he was head of the local hortus botanicus and in 1825 commenced a major botanical work, the Genera et Species Orchidearum et Asclepiadearum, in fifteen tomes describing plant genera from the Dutch Indies shipped to him from Batavia; but he had to abandon this project and his position in 1830 because of the Belgian Revolution.

Jean-Joseph Charlier

Jean-Joseph Charlier (Liège 4 April 1794 - Liège 30 March 1886) was a Belgian revolutionary, best known for his role on the barricades facing the Brussels Park during the Belgian Revolution.


see also

Jacques Coghen

Thus he went through a difficult period marked by the Ten Days' Campaign, a failed attempt to suppress the Belgian revolution by the Dutch king William I between 1 August and 12 August 1831.