Leopold II of Belgium
1835–1909 · Person
The constitutional king of a small country who acquired the Congo as personal property and bled it for rubber — perhaps ten million dead behind the philanthropic façade.
On these timelines: The Low Countries, Master, Sub-Saharan Africa, People
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- Dutch Golden Age (1588)
- Dutch Republic (1588)
- William the Silent (1533)
- Jan van Eyck (1390)
- Belgian Revolution (1830)
- Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652)
- Burgundian Netherlands (1384)
- German invasion of the Netherlands (1940)
Around 1835
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Stockton and Darlington Railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)