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1 de may. de 2024 · Leopold II was the Holy Roman emperor from 1790 to 1792, one of the most capable of the 18th-century reformist rulers known as the “enlightened despots.”. The third son of the Habsburg Maria Theresa and the emperor Francis I, Leopold succeeded his father as duke of Tuscany when his eldest brother.
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5 de may. de 2024 · King Leopold II of Belgium seized a vast part of central Africa in the mid-1880s, including the modern Democratic Republic of Congo, which he exploited for personal profit with immense cruelty.
29 de abr. de 2024 · Congo Free State, former state in Africa that occupied almost all of the Congo River basin, coextensive with the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was created in the 1880s as the private holding of a group of European investors headed by Leopold II, king of the Belgians. The king’s.
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Hace 6 días · Independence was preceded by a long history of colonial rule, starting in the 1880s as the private possession of King Leopold II under the facade of the Congo Free State. As of 1908, it was as an official colony of Belgium. The abhorrent crimes of the Leopold II era were ended and a broad national project was started in Congo.
Hace 4 días · On this day, 18 November 1889, King Leopold II organised an anti-slavery conference in Brussels. Rather than being a key moment for abolitionism in Europe, it helped secure the 'Scramble for Africa'. Throughout the 19th century, the anti-slave trade movement was in full swing in Europe.
Hace 4 días · Dive deep into the chilling history of King Leopold II of Belgium, a monarch whose reign stretched far beyond the ornate halls of his kingdom into the dark depths of the Congo Free State. This...
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14 de may. de 2024 · By Liz Newmark. Even by the standards of the 19th century’s colonial scramble Belgium’s treatment of Congo was particularly rapacious. Appropriated as the Congo Free State in 1885, the colony was not a state-controlled territory, but rather King Leopold II’s private property.
