Country article in printed Atlas
Chronology
| 1830 | Archives générales du Royaume (General Archives of the Kingdom), Brussels |
| 1831 | Appointment of Louis-Prosper Gachard as state archivist |
| 1832 | Messager des sciences et des arts de la Belgique (Journal of Sciences and Arts of Belgium), later the Messager des Sciences historiques (Journal of Historical Sciences) |
| 1834 | Commission Royale d’Histoire (Royal Commission of History) |
| 1835 | Law regarding university education (in history) |
| 1845 | Reorganization of the Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique (Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts) and creation of the five-yearly prize for national history |
| 1845 | Commission de la biographie nationale (Commission for National Biography) |
| 1850 | Musée historique (Historical Museum) in the Musée royal de peinture et de sculpture de Belgique (Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures of Belgium), Brussels |
| 1873 | Société pour le progrès des études philologiques et historiques (Society for the Progress of Philological and Historical Studies) |
| 1874 | Introduction of seminars in university history education (Godefroid Kurth, Liège) |
| 1896 | State archives in the provincial capitals |
| 1897 | Archives belges. Revue critique d’historiographie nationale (Belgian Archives. Critical Review of National Historiograhy) |
| 1900 | Publication of first part of Histoire de Belgique by Henri Pirenne |
| 1902 | Institut historique belge de Rome (Belgian Historical Institute of Rome) |
| 1922 | Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire (Belgian Review of Philology and History) |
| 1926 | Comité national belge des sciences historiques (Belgian National Committee for Historical Sciences) |
| 1946 | Institut Émile Vandervelde (Émile Vandervelde Institute), Brussels, the first party-specific archive centre |
| 1948 | Suzanne Tassier first female professor of history in Belgium at the Université libre de Bruxelles – Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels) |
| 1969 | Centre de recherches d’études historiques de la Seconde guerre mondiale – Navorsings- en Studiecentrum voor de Geschiedenis van de Tweede Wereldoorlog (Centre for Research and Studies on the History of the Second World War), Brussels |
| 1995 | Amazone: Archiefcentrum voor Vrouwengeschiedenis – Centre d’archives pour l’histoire des femmes (Archive Centre on Women’s History), Brussels |
Bibliography
(References are included up to 2009)
