The wool industry, originally established at Bruges, created the first European industrialized zone in Ghent in the High Middle Ages.

After the Belgian Revolution, with the loss of port access to the sea for more than a decade, the local economy collapsed and the first Belgian trade-union originated in Ghent.

In the Belgian first football division Ghent is represented by K. A. A.

In 1976, Walter Fiers at the University of Ghent ( Belgium ) was the first to establish the complete nucleotide sequence of a viral RNA-genome ( bacteriophage MS2 ).

Fountain of Time honors the first 100 years of peace between Great Britain and the United States resulting from the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1814.

In May 2009, Ghent, Belgium, was reported to be " the first in the world to go vegetarian at least once a week " for environmental reasons, when local authorities decided to implement a " weekly meatless day ".

Guillaume de Saint-Amour, Gérard d ' Abbeville, Henry of Ghent, Guillaume des Grez, Odo or Eudes of Douai, Chrétien de Beauvais, Gérard de Reims, Nicolas de Bar were among the most illustrious scholars connected either with the first chairs in the Sorbonne, or with the first association that constituted it.

In 1972, Walter Fiers and his team at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of the University of Ghent ( Ghent, Belgium ) were the first to determine the sequence of a gene: the gene for Bacteriophage MS2 coat protein.

Louis decided to go first to Lille, and then crossed the border into the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, staying in Ghent.

Ghent was settled at the end of eighteenth century and was first known as " McCool's Creek Settlement.

The estate was first subdivided during and immediately after World War II, and was developed as a planned community by Pierre Ghent & Associates of Washington, D. C.

In October 2000, Zimmer performed live in concert for the first time with an orchestra and choir at the 27th Annual Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent.

The first of these is dated from Ghent ( 1640 ), whither he had fled to escape the troubles of the Civil War.

He married for the first time in 1827, spent some time in Ghent, Belgium, was a director of the Clerical, Medical and General Life Assurance Society and a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex and for Kent, but generally led a quiet and retired life.

French became the academic language until 1930, when Ghent University became the first Dutch-speaking university in Belgium.

The university in Ghent was opened on 9 October 1817, with JC van Rotterdam serving as the first rector.

When the congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame was approved by an imperial decree dated 19 June 1806, it numbered 30 members, In that and the following years, foundations were made in various towns of France and Belgium, the most important being those at Ghent and Namur ; Mother St. Joseph was the first superior of the latter house.

The first branch house was established at St. Nicholas, near Ghent.

The Vooruit was founded in Ghent by Edward Anseele and appeared the first time on 31 August 1884, just before the foundation of the Belgian Labour Party ( Dutch: Belgische Werklieden Partij ) in 1885.

The region of the Leie ( between Deinze and Ghent ) used to be known as a favourite place for numerous painters in the first half of the twentieth century.

The first Vlaemsch Verbond ( Constant Leirens, Ghent ) and the Nederduitse Bond, were founded in 1861.

The production in Belgium was the first foreign language version of the show, playing in the city of Ghent, in Flemish.

Their effort was recorded by producer Pierre Vervloesem and performed during the International Film Festival of Flanders in Ghent and some other occasions.

They recorded their fifth album live in Ghent in 1998.

His Symphony No. 6 in D minor, which won first prize at the Société des Beaux-Arts Ghent, and Symphony No. 7 in C minor were recorded in 2003 by Concerto Köln for Deutsche Grammophon.

It was recorded live at Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium.

In 1998, quasi-inspired by psychedelically-informed experiences in Ghent, Belgium, Würzel recorded and released an ambient, improvised avant-garde album entitled Chill Out Or Die.

Indeed, Flemish and Walloon economies differ in many respects ( consider for instance Eurostats and OECD statistics ), and cities like Brussels, Antwerp, Liège, Bruges, Charleroi or Ghent also exhibit significant differences.

Recently ArcelorMittal Ghent ( Sidmar ) made a major investment which resulted in an emission decrease of 90 %.

This early printed book has many hand-painted illustrations depicting Lady Philosophy and scenes of daily life in fifteenth-century Ghent ( 1485 )

When he became unpopular later in life, scurrilous rumours and lampoons circulated that he was actually the son of a Ghent butcher, perhaps because Edward III was not present at the birth.

Fearful that hostilities between France and England would hurt the prosperity of Ghent, he entered political life in 1337.

Next to nothing is known about his early life, except that he was from Flanders, from either the vicinity of Ghent or Weert, which is near Antwerp.

De Broglie, the bishop of Ghent, said of her that she saved more souls by her inner life of union with God than by her outward apostolate.

* Van Oostveldt, Bram and Jaak Van Schoor ( Editors ), The Théatre de la Monnaie and theatre life in the 18th century Austrian Netherlands: from a courtly-aristocratic to a civil-enlightened discourse, Ghent, Academia Press, 2000.

Pierre Louÿs was born Pierre Louis on December 10, 1870 in Ghent, Belgium, but moved to France where he would spend the rest of his life.

* Nocita, Maria Gabriella, Feeling life: Etty Hillesum becomes word, in Spirituality in the Writings of Etty Hillesum, Proceedings of the Etty Hillesum Conference at Ghent University, November 2008, edited by Klaas A. D. Smelik, Ria van den Brandt, and Meins G. S.

Buus was probably born in Ghent around 1500, though details of his early life, as is the case with most Renaissance composers, are scanty.

In 1888 he was chosen professor of geology at the University of Ghent, and retained the post until the close of his life.

* Henry of Ghent becomes the last major theologian to openly consider annuities as usurious contract.

* The Flemish city of Ghent seeks rights to start redeeming its already issued annuities.