11 October 1698
Treaty of Partition
Maximilian Emanuel's son Joseph Ferdinand is selected as the compromise heir to most of the Spanish Empire.
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Brussels in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Maximilian Emanuel's son Joseph Ferdinand is selected as the compromise heir to most of the Spanish Empire.
Joseph Ferdinand dies of smallpox, making the First Partition Treaty impossible to enforce.
Maximilian Emanuel aligns Bavaria and the Spanish Netherlands with France.
Marx renounces his Prussian citizenship and remains stateless for the rest of his life.
Marx and Engels begin The German Ideology, developing a materialist interpretation of history.
Marx writes concise theses emphasising practical activity and social relations.
Marx settles in Brussels and continues his political and economic studies.
Marx helps establish a committee linking socialist and communist groups across Europe.
Marx publishes The Poverty of Philosophy as a critique of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
Marx lectures German workers on wages, labour and capitalist production.
Belgian authorities arrest and expel Marx during the revolutionary crisis.
Contributes expertise from precision measurements of infrared radiation.
Attends the first Solvay Conference on radiation theory.
Attends the first Solvay Conference as an experimental physicist.
Participates in the first Solvay Conference on radiation and quanta.
Participates in the Solvay meeting devoted to radiation and quanta.
Contributes to discussions concerning emerging quantum concepts.
Discusses quantum theory with leading European physicists in Brussels.
Engages in international debate on quantum and thermodynamic problems.
Brussels is captured without resistance by General von Kluck of the First Army
Brussels is captured without resistance by General von Kluck of the First Army
Germany captures Brussels
Brussels is captured without resistance by General von Kluck of the First Army
Brussels is captured without resistance by General von Kluck of the First Army
Challenges Niels Bohr with thought experiments testing the completeness of quantum mechanics.
Participates in the fifth Solvay Conference and debates the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Attends the sixth Solvay Conference and continues discussions on quantum theory and field physics.
The Belgian Army lays down its arms, forcing Allied forces in Belgium to withdraw.
The King of the Belgians surrenders the Belgian Army to the Germans
Ophüls heads the Federal German delegation when negotiations on the Common Market and Euratom formally open in Brussels.
Helps manage German negotiating positions on the common market before the Treaties of Rome.
Hallstein helps complete the Federal German negotiating position as the Rome Treaties move toward final drafting.
Becomes the first President of the Commission of the European Economic Community.
As Council President-in-Office, informs Britain that the EEC Council agrees to begin accession negotiations.
Heads the West German government when the Six sign the Merger Treaty creating a single Council and Commission.
Heads the German government when accession treaties are signed with Britain, Denmark, Ireland and Norway.
Supports the act establishing direct universal elections to the European Parliament.
Participates as the Brussels European Council finalises the political agreement creating the European Monetary System.
Helps submit the German-Italian Draft European Act proposing stronger political cooperation and progress toward European Union.
Kinkel welcomes Austria's Brussels accession to the Schengen Convention. Bonn also backs intensive police cooperation between participating states.
Participates in the agreement on the method for determining irrevocable conversion rates for the future euro.
Represents Germany when leaders decide that eleven member states meet the conditions to adopt the euro from 1999.
Leads the European Council under the German Presidency as negotiations begin on a mandate for a new reform treaty.
The European Council of heads of states or Governments met in Brussels to agree upon the foundation of a new treaty to replace the rejected Constitution. The meeting took place under the German Presidency of the EU, with Chancellor Angela Merkel leading the negotiations as President-in-Office of the European Council
Supports the compromise mandate that enables an intergovernmental conference to draft the Lisbon reform treaty.
Provenance
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