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The following lists events that happened during 1917 in the Belgian Congo .
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The following lists events that happened during 1917 in the Belgian Congo .
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| 22 March | Charles Tombeur (1867–1947) is appointed governor and deputy governor-general of Katanga Province. [1] |
| 15 August | Adolphe De Meulemeester becomes deputy governor-general of Orientale Province |
| 20 August | Équateur District become Équateur Province. Georges Moulaert, becomes deputy governor general of the province on 20 August 1917. [2] |
| 9 October | The Mahenge offensive culminates in the capture of Mahenge by the Belgian Congo forces |
Équateur was a province in the northwest of the Belgian Congo and the successor Republic of the Congo, now known as Democratic Republic of the Congo. It had its origins in the Équateur District of the Congo Free State, the private property of King Leopold II of Belgium. It was upgraded to the status of a province in 1917. Between 1933 and 1947 it was named Coquilhatville. In 1962 it was divided into three smaller provinces, but there were recombined in 1966. Équateur was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo until 2015, when it was split into the new, smaller Équateur province, as well as the Tshuapa, Mongala, Nord-Ubangi and Sud-Ubangi provinces.
Article 2 of the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo divides the country into the capital city of Kinshasa and 25 named provinces. It also gives the capital the status of a province. Therefore, in many contexts Kinshasa is regarded as the 26th province.
Kwilu District was a district of the Belgian Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It roughly corresponded to the present province of Kwilu.
Bolomba Territory is an administrative area in Équateur Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The headquarters is the town of Bolomba. It is located northeast of the provincial capital of Mbandaka. Its main waterway is the Ikelemba River which is navigable down to the Congo River.
Laurent-Gabriel Eketebi, later Eketebi Moyidiba Mondjolomba, was a Congolese politician who served as President of Équateur Province from June 1960 until September 1962 and as President of Moyen-Congo Province from then until June 1964. He later served as State Commissioner of Transport and Communications from July 1972 until January 1975, when he was dismissed and charged with various financial crimes. Eketebi was convicted, but received a pardon in 1994. He died in 2006.
Charles-Marie-Nestor Duchesne was a Belgian lawyer and colonial administrator who was governor of Équateur Province in the Belgian Congo from 1921 to 1933.
Tanganika District was a district of the pre-2015 Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The district dates back to the days of the Belgian Congo. At its greatest extent it roughly corresponded to the present Tanganyika Province, with a small portion in the southwest now in Haut-Lomami Province.
The following lists events that happened during 1932 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1919 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1931 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1920 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1922 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1893 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1889 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1907 in the Congo Free State.
The following lists events that happened during 1921 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1925 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1947 in the Belgian Congo.
The following lists events that happened during 1933 in the Belgian Congo.
