In the history of Belgium, the period from 1789 to 1914, dubbed the "long 19th century" by the historian Eric Hobsbawm, includes the end of Austrian rule and periods of French and Dutch rule over the
Market day in the Campine (1910) by Frans Van Leemputten depicts rural life in the Belgian Kempen region
Belgian holidaymakers at Ostend in Flanders, c.1895
The Battle of Fleurus, which pushed the Austrians out of the territory for the last time
Napoleon attending the launch of the warship Friedland in Antwerp in 1810
The general strike of 1893 was a major general strike in Belgium in April 1893 called by the Belgian Labour Party to pressure the government of Auguste Beernaert to introduce universal male suffrage i
Un soir de grève (1893) by Eugène Laermans
Troops of the paramilitary Garde Civique fire on strikers near Mons on 17 April 1893