The Battle of Achouffe, 13-15 January 1945
Achouffe is a small village in the municipality of Houffalize. In January 1945 it gained a position of great strategic significance during the Battle of Achouffe.
Achouffe is a small village in the municipality of Houffalize. In January 1945 it gained a position of great strategic significance during the Battle of Achouffe.
The burning of the University of Leuven Library in 1914 led to the loss of a quarter of a million manuscripts. 26 years later it was burnt down again.
The 1566 Iconoclasm was when countless religious statues, paintings and buildings were defaced or destroyed.
Queen Elizabeth II was related to the Belgian King, and had a Belgian tutor as a young girl.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited Belgium six times and enjoyed a close relationship with the country and its monarchs.
The Voyage of the Belgica to the Antarctic, 1897-1899, was an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong.
From 1902 to 1931, Belgium, like a number of other countries, had a concession in the Chinese port city of Tianjin.
Suzanne Spaak was a courageous Belgian operative in the French Resistance during the Second World War.
On August 4, 1942, a train left Mechelen carrying nearly a thousand Jewish men, women and children. Its destination was Auschwitz.
Gabrielle Petit was a Belgian woman who spied for the British Secret Service during the First World War.
Discover key events in Belgium’s history since it was first established as an independent nation in 1830.
Hortense Clews (born Hortense Daman) was a courageous member of the Belgian resistance movement in her teens, and a survivor of Ravensbrück.