Before the merger between the "Faculté Polytechnique de Mons" and the University of Mons-Hainaut which took place in 2009, the FPMs used to be the oldest university of the city of Mons and the first Engineering school in Belgium (1837).
In the university library, which was established in 1797, there were more than 715,000 items, including 450 manuscripts, one of which was from the 10th century, and 140 incunables, of which one was a Gutenberg Bible.
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14972 Olihainaut (1997 QP3) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 30, 1997 by the OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey at Caussols, named after Belgian astronomer Olivier (Oli) Hainaut.
Traditionally the steelworks of Belgium had been concentrated in the southern half of the country, in Wallonia, close to the historic coal mining areas at the edge of the Rhenish Massif; which in part defined the area that came to be known as the Sillon industriel including the regions of Liege and Hainaut.
To the surrender of Rotterdam, the weapon was given by William I, Count of Holland and Hainaut in thanks for the support of the lords of the Court of Wena in its fight against Flanders in 1304.
Comines (Belgium), a town in Hainaut, Belgium, part of the municipality of Comines-Warneton
The Western or Little Dender springs near Leuze-en-Hainaut at an altitude of about 60 to 70 metres above sea level.
Dubuisson Brewery (Brasserie Dubuisson Frères) is a Belgian family brewery in Pipaix, province of Hainaut
Eugène Boch (1 September 1855 – 3 January 1941) was a Belgian painter, born in Saint-Waast, Nord, Hainaut, and the younger brother of Anna Boch, a founding member of Les XX.
The Faculty of Engineering of UMONS (French: Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMs)) is a faculty of engineering at the University of Mons in the Wallonia region in Belgium.
Frasnes-lez-Anvaing a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut
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Frasnes-lez-Gosselies, a village in Les Bons Villers, a Walloon municipality in the Belgian province of Hainaut
After 1200 Gislebert wrote the Chronicon Hanoniense, a history of Hainaut and the neighboring lands from about 1050 to 1195, which is specially valuable for the latter part of the twelfth century.
French Hainaut, a part of the former province Flanders and Hainaut
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County of Hainaut, the feudal entity created in 1071 on the order of Henry IV, overlapping part of northern France with the modern Hainaut province of Belgium
The company absorbed another Charleroi based steel group Thy-Marcinelle et Providence in 1980 before being merged with the Liege based steel group Cockerill in 1981 to form Cockerill-Sambre.
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On 16 January 1981 Hainaut-Sambre and Cockerill announced that they were to merge the two groups.
Henri de Saint-Ignace (b. in 1630, at Ath in Hainaut, Belgium; d. in 1719 or 1720, near Liège) was a Belgian Carmelite theologian.
Since both the French king, Philip I, and the dowager countess of Hainaut, Richilda, were opposed to increased imperial influence—represented by the bishop of Cambrai—in the county of Flanders, they supported Hugh in his rebellion.
The impoverished family was not able to provide better, and Isabella married a Walloon knight, Walter III of Enghien, whose lordships in and around the Hainaut were not unsubstantial (Condé, Enghien).
Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (1401–1436), Duchess of Bavaria-Straubing, Countess of Hainaut and Holland
Born in the Castle of Le Quesnoy in Hainaut, Jacqueline, from her birth, was referred to as "of Holland", indicating that she was the heiress of her father's estates.
Jan Mabuse (c. 1478 – 1 October 1532) was the name adopted (from his birthplace, Maubeuge) by the Flemish painter Jan Gossaert; or Jennyn van Hennegouwe (Hainaut), as he called himself when he matriculated in the guild of St Luke, at Antwerp, in 1503.
In 1721, he was counsel to the Parlement of Paris, in 1728 he was maître des requêtes, and ten years later was made president of the Great Council; although he had opposed the court in the Unigenitus dispute, he was appointed intendant of Hainaut in 1743.
After his marriage to Jacqueline, he was brought up at the castle of Le Quesnoy in Hainaut, at the court of his mother-in-law, Margaret of Burgundy.
1437 - near Utrecht, 5 August 1483), lord of Montigny and of Santes, was a noble from Hainaut who filled several important posts in service of the Burgundian Dukes.
Louis released Holland and Hainaut for his brothers William I and Albert I in 1349, since he expected to acquire the Polish crown by his marriage with Cunigunde of Poland, a daughter of Casimir III and Aldona Ona of Lithuania.
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When his father died in 1347, Louis succeeded him as Duke of Bavaria (as Louis VI) and Count of Holland and Hainaut together with his five brothers.
Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (1202–1280), countess of Flanders and Hainaut, aka Margaret of Constantinople
Matilda of Hainaut (29 November 1293 – 1331) was the Princess of Achaea from 1313 to 1318.
Montignies-sur-Roc, a village in the municipality Honnelles, in the Belgian province of Hainaut.
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Montignies-sur-Sambre, a section of the Belgian town of Charleroi within the Walloon region in the Province of Hainaut, along the river Sambre
Pecq, Belgium is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut
Towards the end of his life, he was employed by the Emperor as Governor of Valenciennes, Lieutenant General of Liege, and Captain General of Hainaut.
Louise was born in Mons, Hainaut, in the Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium), the eldest daughter of Prince Gustav Adolf of Stolberg-Gedern and of his wife Princess Elisabeth of Hornes, the daughter of Maximilian, Prince of Hornes.
Richilde and her younger son, Baldwin II, retained Hainaut, but made subsequent unsuccessful attempts to recover Flanders.
It was established as a devotion with prayers already formulated and special exercises, found in the writings of Lanspergius (d. 1539) of the Carthusians of Cologne; the Louis of Blois (Blosius, 1566), a Benedictine and Abbot of Liessies in Hainaut, John of Avila (d. 1569) and St. Francis de Sales, the latter belonging to the seventeenth century.
After the extinction of the Wittelsbach dukes of Bavaria-Straubing, counts of Holland and Hainaut, William and his brother Ernest struggled with their cousins Henry and Louis but finally received half of Bavaria-Straubing in 1429.