This article outlines the legislative chronology concerning the use of official languages in Belgium.
Bilingual information at a railway station in Brussels
Francization of Brussels
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The Francization of Brussels refers to the evolution, over the past two centuries, of this historically Dutch-speaking city into one where French has become the majority language and lingua franca. The main cause of this transition was the rapid, compulsory assimilation of the Flemish population, amplified by immigration from France and Wallonia.
Bilingual French and Dutch street signs in Brussels
Brussels in 1555, still a small city that had not yet grown to fill its walls, the present-day Small Ring
First page of Verlooy's Dissertation on the disregard of the native language in the Netherlands (1788), regarded as the first work dealing with the language problem in Flanders.
Under French rule, the use of Dutch was forbidden in Brussels' Town Hall.