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12,000 years ago
A
Place
on
the
Planet
c. 500,000
-
33,000 years ago
Neanderthals
in
the
Valley
of
the
Meuse
The Earliest Traces of Human Habitation
c. 5,300
-
4,590 BC
The
Settlement
of
Rosmeer
The First Farmers
c. 800
-
500 BC
Celts
on
the
Kemmelberg
Celtic Centralisation of Power
c. 10 BC
-
400 AD
Tongeren,
a
Roman
Town
Romanisation of the Low Countries
c. 747
-
814
Charlemagne
The Franks
End of 11th century
Hebban
olla
vogala
Traces of the Earliest Dutch
c. 1183
The
Windmill
of
Wormhout
Innovation in Agriculture
c. 1100
-
1500
The
Lost
Harbours
of
the
Zwin
Bruges, Linked to the Sea
c. 1154
Towns
on
the
Map
of
Al-Idrisi
Contacts with the Muslim World
13th century
Béguinages
Women Join Forces
c. 1260
Reynard
the
Fox
Literature in the Vernacular
1302
1302
Social Revolutions in the Towns of Flanders and Brabant
1432
The
Adoration
of
the
Mystic
Lamb
by
the
Van
Eyck
Brothers
Medieval Iconography
1453
The
Battle
of
Gavere
The Burgundians
At the latest 1460
The
Bayard
Steed
of
Dendermonde
Processions and Parades
c. 1515
The
Mechelen
Choir
Book
Polyphonic Music in the Low Countries
c. 1469
-
1536
Erasmus
Humanism
c. 1480
-
1572
Pedro
de
Gante
Europeans in a ‘New World’
1563
Mad
Meg
Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the Renaissance
1566
The
Iconoclastic
Fury
Civil War in the Low Countries
1548
-
1620
Simon
Stevin
A Scientific Lens
?
-
1590
Cathelyne
Van
den
Bulcke
Witch Trials in Europe
1624
The
Adoration
of
the
Magi
Rubens and the Baroque
1695
The
Bombardment
of
Brussels
Wars in the Spanish-Habsburg Netherlands
1717
-
1780
Empress
Maria
Theresia
Enlightenment in Europe
c. 1800
The
Mule
Jenny
The Advent of Machines and Factories
1804
The
Napoleonic
Code
The French Period
1830
-
1831
A
Liberal
Constitution
Belgium Independent
1835
The
First
Train
Journey
The Railway Opens Up the Country
1838
The
Lion
of
Flanders
Hendrik Conscience and the Flemish Movement
1845
-
1847
The
Potato
Crisis
‘Poor Flanders’
1863
The
Opening-Up
of
the
Scheldt
Antwerp, Gateway to the World
1855
-
1943
Emilie
Claeys
The ‘Social Question’ in the 19th Century
1889
Christ’s
Entry
into
Brussels
in
1889
by
James
Ensor
Innovation in the Visual Arts
1902
Bloodbath
in
Leuven
Fighting for the Vote
1853
-
1948
Marie
Belpaire
Girls Go to School
1910
Three
Crowing
Cocks
The Flemish Movement and the Language Struggle
1913
The
Tour
of
Flanders
The Land of the Road Race
1890
-
1930
Paul
Panda
Farnana
Congo, Conquered and Colonised
1914
-
1918
Grieving
Parents
by
Käthe
Kollwitz
The First World War
1901
-
1992
Multicultural
Mining
Villages
Coal in Limburg
1920s –
Jozef
Cardijn’s
Youth
Movement
Pillarisation and Secularisation
1927
Our
Cookbook
Culinary Canons
1930
The
Yser
Tower
The Legacy of the First World War
1940
-
1945
The
Drama
of
Meensel-Kiezegem
The Second World War
1940
-
1945
The
Dossin
Barracks
The Persecution of the Jews during the Second World War
1944
The
Social
Pact
Social Security and the Welfare State
1948
Ribbon
Development
Spatial Planning in Flanders
1925
-
2021
Paula
Sémer
Television as a Window on the World
1955
The
Oostakker
Poems
by
Hugo
Claus
Artistic Renewal after 1945
1961
The
Pill
Sexual Revolution and Women’s Rights
1962
Le
plat
pays
of
Jacques
Brel
French-Language Culture in Flanders
1962
-
1963
The
Establishment
of
the
Language
Border
Belgium Becomes a Federal State
1967
Steel
in
Flanders
Economic Growth in the Sixties
1975
Rock
Werchter
Festival Culture
2002
The
Euro
European Integration
2003
Same-Sex
Marriage
LGBTQ+, from Discrimination to Emancipation
2004
Goesting
A Standard Language for Flanders
2012
The
World
in
Flanders
600 v.C. - 2023
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