UK time in Belgium

The Dutch period in the history of Belgium is the period 1815 - 1830. At this time the Southern Netherlands were part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Dutch time was preceded by the French time and ended up with the Belgian revolution.



Content
[hide] *1 Revival of Southern Netherlands  ==Revival of the southern Netherlands[ Edit] == On the economic front, the Southern Netherlands underwent a metamorphosis: now closed off from the French market reduced the ' continental ' trade with France but the reopening of the Scheldt and the East Indian market did the total economy increase exponentially. Ghent was on the end of the years 1820 the textile capital of the European continent with 30,000 highly paid workers. Port traffic in Antwerp was increased from 585 ships and 65,000 tons in 1819 to 1,028 and ships 129.000 tonnes in 1829.
 * 2 Growing tensions
 * 3 Revolution
 * 4 see also

On general economic area King William I founded the Algemeene Nederlandsche Maatschappij ter favoring the people's industry on (later to become Société Générale) and South Dutch counterpart of the Bank of Amsterdam. This society would be if public credit provider the economy a real boost and for more than 150 years the economic and political history of Belgium with it shaping.

In the area of culture on human development efforts concentrated Walker: in 1815, there were in the South 218,000 people who could neither read nor write, compared to only 23,000 in the North. William built during his 15-year reign in the South 1,500 schools where a teacher was in the vernacular (i.e. Dutch in Flanders and Brussels). The number of primary school children in the southern provinces doubled from 150,000 to 300,000. ==Growing tensions[ Edit] == However, King William I managed not-since 1585 slow onset-to overcome national-religious antagonism and to create a new overarching consciousness between Belgians and Dutchmen. In Belgium retained his regime only among the big businessmen important support and, to a lesser extent, under the anticlerical intellectuals. Dissatisfaction with the Church and liberal political grievances had the subordination of the South such as early as 1829, that sparked a revolution seemed inevitable. This was also because the opposition during the Association, the revolution, the ten days campaign in 1831 and the distance of Limburg and Luxembourg in1839, the mental gap with the ' Hollanders ' managed to call over and over again in life. As a result, the experienced Belgian separatism only credible resistance at Orange orderthe southern Netherlands; the same backlash because of the rather undiplomatic activities of separatism was King William I. ==Revolution[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">One of the most important moments in the revolution took place on 24 August 1830. In the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the opera la Muette De Portici (original a French opera, La Muette de Portici) stepped up.During this opera in Brussels riots broke out. It is one of the best known facts from this revolution.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Another fact were the 3 x 4 W's that were painted on walls. The 12 letters stood for:


 * We want Walker Road,
 * would William wiser,
 * We want Willem again.