2023-09-27 16:18:06
What happened in the history of Belgium for us to choose September 27 as the official day of celebration for the country’s French speakers?
Since 1975, the date of September 27 has been chosen by the French Community of Belgium, the former name of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, for this celebration.
This day actually commemorates an event of the Belgian Revolution. In 1830, on September 23, the troops of William of Orange, sovereign of the Netherlands, entered Brussels. Present-day Belgium was at the time located in the southern provinces of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. William of Orange’s regime faced riots”in Belgium“since August 25, 1830 and the episode of La Muette de Portici.
On the night of September 26 to 27, 1830, the troops of the King of the Netherlands were driven out of the Brussels Park where they had entrenched themselves.
For 50 years, this date of September 27 will be that of the Belgian National Day, before July 21 was preferred, in memory of the day Leopold I, first king of the Belgians, was sworn in, July 21, 1831.
When the French Community of Belgium, the current Wallonia-Brussels Federation, looked for a date for its feast day and looked for a symbol of the union between French-speaking Walloons and Brussels residents, it opted for September 27 because she considered that this victory once morest the Dutch troops was that of the people of Brussels and the Walloon volunteers. However, work by historians has shown that on September 26 and 27, 1830, there were also Flemings in the ranks of the Belgian revolutionaries…
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