In 1114, Austrian nobleman
Leopold III, who married a daughter of German Emperor Henry IV, founded the monastery.
Bush, Jermone Lejeune, King
Leopold III, Queen Astrid of Belgium, Franz Jagerstatter, George Washington Carver, Rose Hawthorne and many others.
The earliest reports of Basel's Fasnacht, which begins each year on the Monday following Ash Wednesday, date from 1376 when Duke
Leopold III, the lord of the city, held a tournament on Munsterplatz, after which a tumult broke out during which four noblemen were killed and twelve burghers beheaded for their impulsive act.
His thoughts turn to his unhappy childhood during World War II, when Belgium was overcome by the Nazis and King
Leopold III went into self-imposed exile.
The Battle of Belgium ended as King
Leopold III surrendered to the Nazis.
1 The Iranian oil industry was nationalised 2 Labour Minister Aneurin Bevan resigned from the government 3 Ivor Novello and Ernest Bevin died 4 King
Leopold III of the Belgians abdicated impossipuzzles Jenson took a deep breath.
EVENTS 1950: The Belgian government collapses over a referendum on the return from exile of King
Leopold III.
These pupils are the real success story, just as in Belgium the real success stories are not King
Leopold III, Audrey Hepburn or Jean Claude Van Dame (I'm starting to struggle here) but the millions of Walloons and Flemings who have managed to co-exist for years without resorting to civil warfare.
1950 - King
Leopold III returns to Belgium after six years in exile, but abdicates in August.
WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN: King
Leopold III; A watermark; Essex; 1970.
Two days later the battalion took up positions which they had previously occupied and it was here that they received the news which shook the world - that without regard for the Allies King
Leopold III had ordered the Belgian Army of 200,000 to lay down their arms, thus leaving a gap through which the German army poured.