Belgian Congo
This article is about the specific polity Belgian Congo and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.
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Was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960.
Establishment
November 1908: The violence and exploitation of the Congo by private militias, when the region was a personal dominion of the Belgian King, compelled the Belgian government to reluctantly annex the state following international pressure.
Chronology
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1. Events
January 1911: In 1910, following the Belgian annexation of the Congo Free State as the Belgian Congo in 1908 and the death of the Belgian King in December 1909, British authorities reclaimed the Lado Enclave as per the Anglo-Congolese treaty signed in 1894, and added the territory to Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
January 1914: The borders are finalized according to the Berlin Conference agreement (1884).
January 1915: An Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission was established in 1911 to survey the boundaries between Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia on the ground, resolve the problems and mark the border with posts and timber towers used for triangulation.
June 1960: In 1960, as the result of a widespread and increasingly radical pro-independence movement, the Congo achieved independence, becoming the Republic of Congo.
Disestablishment
June 1960: In 1960, as the result of a widespread and increasingly radical pro-independence movement, the Congo achieved independence, becoming the Republic of Congo.
