On 15 November 1908 King Léopold II of Belgium formally relinquished personal control of the Congo Free State.

* 1885 – The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium.

* Due to the evidence collected by Roger Casement, Léopold II of Belgium is forced to make reforms in the Congo, his personal colony.

* December 10 – Léopold II becomes King of the Belgians.

* February 5 – King Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State as a personal possession.

** The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium.

* April 9 – King Léopold II of Belgium ( d. 1909 )

Image: Léopold II Bruxelles. JPG | Leopold II horseback riding statue, Regent place, Brussels.

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In 1891 on Stanley's recommendation, Stairs was appointed by King Léopold II of Belgium to command a mission to take Katanga also known as Garanganze with or without the consent of its powerful king, Msiri.

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* Léopold II of Belgium

In the wake of World War II, he was one of the most vocal opponents of the policy of " independence " ( in fact, neutrality ) of the Belgian government and Léopold III.

First, this observation might detract from the pro-imperialist arguments of Léopold II, Francesco Crispi, and Jules Ferry, but Hobson argued against imperialism from a slightly different standpoint.

In 1878, King Léopold II of Belgium, who had previously founded the International African Society in 1876, invited Henry Morton Stanley to join him in researching and ' civilizing ' the continent.

Thus the territory of today's Democratic Republic of the Congo, some two million square kilometers, was made essentially the property of Léopold II ( but later would eventually become a Belgian colony ).

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Stanley was officially still in the employment of Léopold II of Belgium, whom he had been employed by in carving out Léopold's ' Congo Free State '.

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Under her successor, Mother Aimee de Jesus ( Elodie Dullaert, b. 1825, d. 1907 ), the Sisters of Notre Dame, at the request of Léopold II of Belgium, took charge of the girls ' schools in the Jesuit missions of the Congo Free State, where three houses were established.

Later, he was the confidant of Léopold II, King of the Belgians and the very representative of the Belgian government in the Congo.

His later books include The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey ( 1990 ; new edition, 2007 ), The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin ( 1994 ; new edition, 2003 ), Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels ( 1997 ), which collects his personal essays and reportage, and King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa ( 1998 ; new edition, 2006 ), a history of the conquest and colonization of the Congo by Belgium's King Léopold II.

In 1896, King Léopold II attended the ballet and saw Mérode dance.

The 1930s and 1940s saw significant contributions by citizens of French colonies and Aimé Césaire, along with Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon Damas created the literary review L ' Étudiant Noir which was a forerunner of the Négritude movement.

At a summit of the Organization of African Unity in Mogadishu in 1974, Wade told President Léopold Sédar Senghor that he wanted to start a new party, and Senghor agreed to this.

At a summit of the Organization of African Unity in Mogadishu in 1974, Wade told President Léopold Sédar Senghor that he wanted to start a new party, and Senghor agreed to this.

In the 1925 federal election, Léopold Doyon won 2, 839 votes, 19. 4 % of the total, as the only opponent of the Liberal candidate in St. Henri.

After its collapse, he moved away from Léopold Sédar Senghor, but with Sékou Touré, the president of Guinea, and Kwame Nkrumah, the President of Ghana, he formed the Union of the States of Western Africa.

In particular, he influenced Léopold Sédar Senghor, one of the founders of Négritude, who once claimed that Frobenius had " given Africa back its dignity and identity.

Party of the African Federation () was a political party in French West Africa, led by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita ( general secretary ).

In spite of the monarch ’ s objections, Williams went to Central Africa to see the conditions there for himself, from where he addressed " An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Léopold II, King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of Congo " from Stanley Falls on July 18, 1890.

During his first solo exhibition, at the art dealer Léopold Zborowski in 1931, two sculptures were acquired by the Musée national d ' art moderne in Paris ( now in the Centre Pompidou ) and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

Among her favorite painters were Nicholas Poussin and Peter Paul Rubens, but she also copied the paintings of Paulus Potter, Porbus, Louis Léopold Robert, Salvatore Rosa and Karel Dujardin.

They also branded Lilian as an intriguing social-climber ( Léopold III, by Vincent Dujardin, Mark van den Wijngaert, et al .).

* 20 – Léopold Senghor, 95, first President of Senegal ; also a world-renowned poet and writer.

The lyrics were written by Léopold Sédar Senghor, who became Senegal's first president, and the music by Herbert Pepper, who also wrote the national anthem of the Central African Republic, "".

The first President of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor ( also a poet ) was one of the primary exponents of negritude, which espoused the idea that the griot traditions of Senegal were as valid, classical and meaningful as French classical music.

King Léopold II of Belgium appointed him mayor of Antwerp on 22 February 1909, much against the wishes of the liberal party, of which Jan De Vos was also member, who would have preferred the alderman Victor Desguin.

This texture was the manner of the day and was also found in the works of Vernet, Ary Scheffer, Louis Léopold Robert and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.

Direct cinema techniques were also incorporated into a number of key fiction films of the period, such as Le chat dans le sac ( 1964 ) and La vie heureuse de Léopold Z ( 1965 ).