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November 1
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All Saints Day, public holiday
- 1700: death of Charles II of Spain, ruler over most of the current territory of Belgium
- 1943: birth of Salvatore Adamo, singer
- 1948: birth of Charles Picqué, Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region
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November 2
- 1083: death of Matilda of Flanders (pictured), queen consort of the Kingdom of England
- 1953: death of Émile Cammaerts, poet, translator and professor
- 2004: death of Gustaaf Joos, priest, made cardinal by John Paul II with whom he had studied and had become befriended
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November 3
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- 1685: birth of François Roettiers, late Baroque painter
- 1746: death of Maurus Dantine, monk and chronologist
- 1879: death of Joseph Poelaert, architect of the Law Courts of Brussels
- 1891: the first edition of the Gazet van Antwerpen appears
- 1901: birth of Leopold III, fourth king of Belgium
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November 4
- 1576: Spain captures Antwerp in the Eighty Years' War and start the Sack of Antwerp: the loss of 8,000 lives and the destruction and looting is known as the Spanish Fury
- 1652: death of Jean-Charles de la Faille, mathematician
- 1918: the Battle of the Sambre, one of the final Allied offensives of World War I
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November 5
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- 1530: the St. Felix's Flood washes away large parts of Flanders and Zeeland
- 1899: Adrien de Gerlache and the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in the Belgica (pictured) return to Antwerp after having spent the winter in Antarctica
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November 6
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- 1479: birth of Joanna of Castile, mother of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1661: birth of Charles II of Spain, ruler over most of the current territory of Belgium
- 1792: in the Battle of Jemappes, the French Revolutionary army defeated the Austrians
- 1814: birth of Adolphe Sax, inventor
- 1956: birth of Marc Dutroux, kidnapper and abuser of six girls, murderer of four of them, in 1995 and 1996
- 1974: birth of Frank Vandenbroucke, cyclist, winner of Paris–Nice and Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 2001: national airline Sabena is declared bankrupt
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November 7
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November 8
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- 1171: death of Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut
- 1578: Pacification of Ghent of the Netherlands against Spain in the Eighty Years' War
- 1867: birth of Léon Houa, cyclist, winner of the first three editions of Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1890: death of César Franck (pictured), composer
- 1949: death of Cyriel Verschaeve, writer
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November 9
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- 1641: death of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, governor of the Netherlands, in Brussels
- 1943: The Belgian Resistance published a famous spoof newspaper, distributed across Brussels, known as the "Faux Soir" (pictured)
- 1956: birth of Lei Clijsters, soccer player, winner of the European Cup Winners Cup, played 40 times for the Belgium national football team: he is also the father of tennis player Kim Clijsters
- 1985: final and most bloody attack by the Nijvel gang, killing 8 people at a supermarket in Aalst
- 2005: death of Muriel Degauque, first Belgian female suicide bomber, in Iraq
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November 10
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- 1433: birth of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy, ruler over most of the current Belgian territory
- 1917- World War I: end of the Battle of Passchendaele, one of the bloodiest battles of World War I with about 3 quarters of a million casualties, after three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele
- 1934: birth of Lucien Bianchi, race car driver, winner of the 1962 12 Hours of Sebring and the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans
- 1967: birth of Rémy Belvaux, film director, also producer and actor in Man Bites Dog
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November 11
- 1893: birth of Paul van Zeeland, politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1935 and 1937
- 1918: Armistice Day: the end of World War I
- 2003: death of Paul Janssen, pharmacologist, founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica
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November 12
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- 1723: death of Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, prince-bishop of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège
- 1867: death of Charles Frédéric Dubois, naturalist
- 1914: birth of Edward Schillebeeckx, theologian
- 1921: death of Fernand Khnopff, Symbolist painter
- 1966: birth of Alberto Rey, pornographic actor
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November 13
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- 1798 - Peasants' War: the revolting peasants capture the city of Diest
- 1904: Land speed record set in Ostend to 168.22 km/h
- 1909: death of Francis, Baron Dhanis, administrator in Congo Free State
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November 14
- 1863: birth of Leo Baekeland (pictured), chemist, inventor of Bakelite
- 1888: death of Jan van Beers, poet
- 1961: birth of Lucas Belvaux, film director and actor
- 1985: birth of Thomas Vermaelen, soccer player with AFC Ajax and the Belgium national football team
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November 15
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King's Feast and Holiday of the German-speaking Community (German: Tag der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens)
- 1194: death of Margaret I, Countess of Flanders
- 1559: birth of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
- 1872: foundation of the Benedictine Maredsous Abbey, known for its beer and cheese
- 1902: attempted assassination of King Leopold II of Belgium by Gennaro Rubino, an Italian anarchist
- 1913: birth of Arthur Haulot, journalist
- 1926: birth of François Craenhals, comics artist, best known for Chevalier Ardent and Les 4 As
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November 16
- 1831: death of Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, mother of Leopold I, first King of the Belgians
- 1908: birth of Sœur Emmanuelle
- 1945: birth of Jan Bucquoy, film director, comics author, and anarchist
- 1964: birth of Josip Weber, soccer player, three time top scorer of the Belgian competition, played 8 times for the Belgium national football team
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November 17
- 1905: birth of Queen Astrid, wife of Leopold III of Belgium
- 1933: birth of Roger Leloup, comics artist best known for Yoko Tsuno
- 1969: birth of Jean-Michel Saive, table tennis player, former World number 1
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November 18
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- 1522: birth of Lamoral, Count of Egmont, general and statesman
- 1930: birth of Marcel Marlier, illustrator of the Martine children's book series
- 1980: birth of François Duval, rally driver, winner of the 2005 Rally Australia
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November 19
- 1404: the St. Elizabeth's flood washes away large parts of Flanders and Zeeland
- 1595: death of Hubert Waelrant, Renaissance composer
- 1949: death of James Ensor, early expressionist and surrealist painter
- 2002: death of Alexandre de Merode, head of the medical commission of the International Olympic Committee
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November 20
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- 1518: death of Pierre de La Rue, composer
- 1662: death of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, governor of the Spanish Netherlands
- 1834: inauguration of the Free University of Belgium, later renamed to Université Libre de Bruxelles, and in 1970 divided into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- 1841: birth of Victor D'Hondt (pictured), mathematician
- 1887: death of Louis Gallait, painter
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November 21
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- 1783: first manned gas-filled balloon flight by professor Jan-Pieter Minckeler from the lawn of Arenberg Castle (pictured)
- 1851: birth of Désiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier, Archbishop of Mechelen from 1906 until his death in 1926
- 1898: birth of René Magritte, surrealist painter
- 1946: birth of Jacky Lafon, actress in the VTM soap Familie
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November 22
- 1914: end of the First Battle of Ypres, stopping the advance of the German troops through Belgium
- 1967: birth of Bart Veldkamp, speed skater, gold medalist at the 1992 Winter Olympics for the Netherlands, bronze medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics for Belgium
- 2005: death of Madani Bouhouche, convicted for two murders and suspected of connections with the Nijvel gang
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November 23
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- 1862: birth of Théo van Rysselberghe, neo-impressionist painter
- 1891: birth of Pierre Ryckmans, head of Belgian Congo from 1934 to 1946
- 1912: death of Charles Bourseul, sometimes credited as the inventor of the telephone
- 1965: death of Queen Elisabeth, wife of King Albert I of Belgium, patron of the arts
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November 24
- 1192: death of Albert of Liège, prince-bishop and saint
- 1492: death of Lewis de Bruges, Flemish knight who became the Earl of Winchester in 1472
- 1886: birth of Georges Vantongerloo, sculptor and painter, founding member of De Stijl
- 1938: birth of Willy Claes, former Secretary General of NATO
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November 25
- 1824: birth of Michel Marie Charles Verlat, painter
- 1936: birth of Lucien Olieslagers, soccer player, Golden Shoe for the best Belgian soccer player of 1959
- 1961: death of Hubert Van Innis, archer, winner of two golden and one silver medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris
- 1972: birth of Stefan Everts, 10 times World Champion motocross and winner of 101 Grand Prix
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November 26
- 1675: death of Francisco Castel Rodrigo, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
- 1866: death of Adrien-François Servais (pictured), called "the Paganini of the cello" by Hector Berlioz
- 1921: birth of Alex Close, cyclist, winner of the Dauphiné Libéré and the Tour of Belgium
- 1922: birth of Etienne Gailly, athlete, winner of the bronze medal in the marathon at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London after a dramatic finish
- 1943: birth of Joël Robert, 6 times motocross World Champion
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November 27
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- 511: death of Clovis I, first king of the Franks
- 639: death of Saint Acarius, bishop of Tournai
- 1382: in the Battle of Roosebeke, the French and Castilian forces, led by King Charles VI of France, defeated the Flemish and English troops: Philip van Artevelde, commander of Ghent, is one of the main victims
- 1474: death of Guillaume Dufay, composer
- 1674: death of Franciscus van den Enden, teacher of Baruch de Spinoza and an early promotor of democracy
- 1769: birth of Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier, first regent of Belgium before the accession of King Leopold I
- 1819: birth of Paul Jean Clays, painter
- 1830: death of André Parmentier, early American landscape architect
- 1916: death of Emile Verhaeren, early Symbolist poet
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November 28
- 1640: birth of Willem de Vlamingh, sea captain, explorer of the southwest coast of Australia
- 1849: birth of Albert Thys, businessman in Congo Free State
- 1886: death of Charles John Seghers, archbishop of Portland, founder of the Alaska missions
- 1916: birth of Lilian Baels (pictured), second wife of King Leopold III of Belgium
- 1944: death of Lode Zielens, writer and journalist
- 1965: birth of Erwin Mortier, author
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November 29
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- 1338: birth of Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, later governor of Ireland
- 1780: death of Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, ruler over the Austrian Netherlands, which comprised most of present-day Belgium
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November 30
- 1909: death of Duke Karl-Theodor in Bavaria, father of Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, wife of Albert I, the third King of the Belgians
- 1916: birth of Countess Andrée de Jongh, Belgian resistance heroine
- 1959: birth of Bart Peeters, singer, drummer, presenter and actor
- 1969: birth of Marc Goossens, racecar driver
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