Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/August/August 17


 * 754: death of Carloman son of Charles Martel, last Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
 * 1304: at the Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle, the Flemish troops defeat the French army
 * 1585: Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde, Burgomaster of Antwerp, signs the surrender of the city to the Spaniards after the Siege of Antwerp during the Eighty Years' War
 * 1800: birth of Charles Rogier, one of the leaders of the Belgian Revolution and Prime Minister of Belgium for three times between 1832 and 1868
 * 1817: birth of Constantine Bruno, Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, historian and minister in the Belgian federal government in 1870
 * 1834: birth of Peter Benoit, composer
 * 1954: birth of Ingrid Daubechies, mathematician
 * 1959: death of Pierre Paulus, painter, designer of the rooster on the Walloon flag