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Events in the year 1832 in Belgium .
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Events in the year 1832 in Belgium .
Albert Joseph, Count Goblet d'Alviella was an officer in the army of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. After the Belgian Revolution, he became a politician and served as the prime minister of Belgium.
The Goblet d'Alviella family is an old family from Tournai and originally from the high Portuguese nobility dating back to 1668, it has been recognised in the Belgian nobility. On June 21, 1838, it received from Queen Mary II of Portugal, the hereditary title of "Count of Alviella" and "Grandesse" in favor of Albert Goblet. On November 20, 1838, King Leopold I of Belgium homologated the letters patent and authorized the family to hold this same title in Belgium. On February 22, 1845, Count Louis Goblet d'Alviella and his descendants were allowed to wear a crown of Marquis on their coats of arms instead of a crown of count, by King Leopold I of Belgium.
The Monster Mortar was one of the largest mortars ever developed. Also called Leopold or the Liège mortar, the 24 inches (610 mm) caliber mortar was conceived by the French artillery officer Henri-Joseph Paixhans. The mortar was manufactured under the direction of the Belgian Minister of War Baron Louis Evain and cast at the Royal Canon Foundry in Liège, Belgium in 1832. It saw action at the Battle of Antwerp in December 1832.
The following lists events that happened during 1884 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Albert-Florent-Joseph Prisse was a Belgian soldier, engineer, diplomat and statesman of French origin. His family lost their fortune during the French Revolution. He served in the army of Napoleon between 1809 and 1814 in Austria, Spain and the Netherlands. In 1816 he became a naturalized citizen of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and served in the army as a surveyor. When Belgium broke away from the Netherlands in 1830 he became an officer of the new Belgian army. He served in various military commands, represented Belgium at the Court of the Hague for three years, and was Belgian Minister of War in 1846–47.
Events in the year 1831 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1635 in the Spanish Netherlands and Prince-bishopric of Liège.
Events in the year 1866 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1865 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1862 in Belgium.
The following lists events that happened during 1905 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Events in the year 1834 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1833 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1835 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1837 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1838 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1846 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1873 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1857 in Belgium.
Octave van Rysselberghe was a Belgian architect of the Art Nouveau period. He is one of the representatives of the architectural renewal that characterized the end of the 19th century, with Victor Horta, Paul Hankar and Henry Van de Velde.
