Leopold II (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II ...

Order of the Crown (Belgium)），大十字级（比利时） 利奥波德二世勋章（英语：Order of Leopold II），大十字骑士级（比利时） 法国荣誉军团勋章，大十字级（法国） ...

“In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a ...

Inspired after a visit to Paris’ Sacred Heart basilica, Belgium’s King Leopold II called for the construction of the basilica. The king himself laid the first stone in 1905, but the basilica ...

Pope John Paul II praised Baudouin in a 1995 general audience in which he said that 'he was a great guardian of the rights of ...

It was first served at a reception held at the Villa des Cèdres, the former home of King Leopold II of Belgium, on the Côte d'Azur. The cognacs used are from Cognac's top two crus: Grande and Petite ...

The conflict's roots became even more entangled when the Belgian government took over administration of Congo in 1908 from King Leopold II, who had run the territory as his personal fiefdom since 1885 ...

On October 14, 1936, then, Belgium reached an important decision. On that date the Council of Ministers met under the presidency of King Leopold III. The King made a solemn address in which he ...