The first unit of the town would have been drawn in our century d. C. for initiative of
the bishop Saint-Gery of Cambrai, like strategic point of connection between the town of Colony and Brugge.
The first documents go back to the century X, and do reference to churches is drawn on the Caudenberg, a hill to the shoulders of the town. Became subsequently residence of the Dutch of Brabant, acquiring so always greater importance, a lot be enclosure with a long circle of ramparts four kilometers, in 1144. In the course of the century XII passed from the crown of Brabant that of the dutch of Lorena.
Subsequently its story resulted indissolubly bound to the you of the region of the Flanders, passing across the struggles for the predominance between the Austria, the Spain and the France. In 1477, when capital became the
Low Countries Austrians, was retained one of the attractivest town and rich of Europe, thanks above all to its activity commercials, concentrated on the deal to woven. In 1567, to suffocate the movements autonomists, the Spanish Duke of dawn adopted strong repressive methods, arriving to make to behead something like 18.000 persons. The Spanish government, that it is prolonged still for all of the XVII century, resulted inept and disastrous, and provoked a rapid economical decline, which carried to its time the craftsmen and the merchants to the rebellion. Brussels resented then of the
political expansion of Luigi XIV, that it made to bomb heavily the town in 1695.
During the start of the eighteenth century they alternate the leader of Brussels French and Austrians: these last took possession themselves finally of the town with the pact of Aquisgrana, and governed in astute manner, promoting between the other a program of revival town-planning. The independence, after a period of occupation Napoleonic and after fifteen years of association with the Court of Holland, was finally reached in 1830, later on to a rebellion exploded between the city roads 25 August. Brussels lived then decades of calm, interrupted only from the
Germans invasions of 1914 and of 1940. For how much it pertains the contemporary story, Brussels was wicked to the center of the chronicles for
the Massacre of Heysel, happened may 29 1985.
