Brabant Revolution

The Brabant Revolution or Brabantine Revolution, sometimes referred to as the Belgian Revolution of 1789–90 in older writing, was an armed insurrection that occurred in the Austrian Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) between October 1789 and December 1790. The revolution, which occurred at the same time as revolutions in France and Liège, led to the brief overthrow of Habsburg rule and the proclamation of a short-lived polity, the United States of Belgium.

The Revolutionaries chose the colours of Brabant (red, yellow and black) for their cockade. This would later influence the Belgian flag created in 1830.

Quotes

• The happy revolution which we have just brought to a glorious conclusion under the visible auspices of God has placed the supreme power in our hands. By virtue of this power we have declared ourselves to be free and independent and have deprived and dismissed the former duke, Joseph II, from all sovereignty...
  • Rowen, Herbert H. (1972). The Low Countries in Early Modern Times. London: Macmillan. OCLC 528290. Declaration of Independence, 20 December 1789.

• Much in these revolutionary activities [in Brabant] brings to mind the Patriot troubles in the Dutch Republic. As in the North, this nationalism was...based on a profound feeling of nostalgia...and closely related to a profound feeling of humiliation.
  • Kossmann, E. H. (1978). The Low Countries, 1780–1940 (Repr. ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-822108-1.

See also

• United States of Belgium
• Belgian Revolution
• Belgium

External links

• Lochée, Lewis, Observations sur la Révolution Belgique, et réflexions sur un certain imprimé adressé au Peuple Belgique, qui sert de justification au Baron de Schoenfeldt

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