Why did Belgium declare itself an independent state on October 4, 1830?
I have found some events that seemed to have led up to the full declaration of Independence. The nobility, mainly coming from the south, became more and more estranged from their northern colleagues. Resentment grew both among the Roman Catholics from the south and the Protestants from the north and among the powerful liberal bourgeoisie from the south and their more moderate colleagues from the North. On August 25, 1830 (after the showing of the opera ‘La Muette de Portici’ of Daniel Auber in Brussels) the Belgian Revolution sparked off and became a fact. The Belgian Revolution had many causes; principally the treatment of the French-speaking Catholic Walloons in the Dutch-dominated United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the difference of religion between the Belgians and their Dutch king. The main cause of the Belgian Revolution was the domination of the Dutch over the economic, political, and social institutions of the United Provinces. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Revolutio
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