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6 unusual facts about United Kingdom of the Netherlands


Art of the Low Countries

Otherwise, few painters from about 1700 until the end of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830 have been incorporated into the art historical discourse.

Jacques-Joseph Haus

Around 1817, King William I of the Netherlands enacted the creation of three universities in the southern provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands: in Ghent, in Liège and in Louvain (former Catholic University).

Renesse Castle

On 6 October 1830, Count Clement-Wenceslas de Renesse-Breidbach sold the castle and the domain to Viscount Leonard Pierre Joseph du Bus de Gisignies, who had been commissioner-general of the Dutch East Indies, for the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and afterwards was appointed Minister of State by William I of the Netherlands.

Royal Observatory of Belgium

Adolphe Quetelet first petitioned the government of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands to establish an astronomical observatory in Brussels in 1823.

United Kingdom of the Netherlands

This state, a large part of which still exists today as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, was made up of the former Dutch Republic (Republic of the Seven United Netherlands) to the north, the former Austrian Netherlands to the south, and the former Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

The first two scenarios came from "Memorandum of Holland" made in 1813 after the Battle of Leipzig.


Château Malou

After Belgium gained its independence from The United Kingdom of Netherlands, the château changed owners and eventually passed to the finance minister of the new Belgian government, Jules Malou (1810–1886).

Dutch Republic

In 1815 it was rejoined with the Austrian Netherlands, Luxembourg and Liège (the 'Southern provinces') to become the Kingdom of the Netherlands, informally known as the Kingdom of the United Netherlands, to create a strong buffer state north of France.

Johann Georg Heine

In 1829 Heine handed the institution over to his nephew Bernhard Heine and moved to the Netherlands.

Joseph Van Crombrugghe

Joseph Jan van Crombrugghe (22 September 1770, Ghent – 10 March 1842, Ghent) was a lawyer and a politician in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and later in Belgium.


see also

Revolution of 1830

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