First School War
The First School War (french: Première guerre scolaire, nl, Eerste schoolstrijd) was a political crisis in Belgium over the issue of religion in education. The School War marks the high water mark of the conflict between the conservative Catholic Party, and the secular Liberal Party. The war lasted from 1879 to 1884 and resulted in a period of nearly fifty years of Catholic political dominance. It was followed by a Second School War between 1950 and 1959. Background In the preceding centuries, education in Belgium had been dominated by the Catholic Church. In 1842, a new education law formalized religious education in primary schools, while also conceding the freedom of education guaranteed in Article 17 of the Constitution of 1831: Under the terms of Article 6 of the Education Act of 1842: In practice, the interpretation of the law varied and, since the vast majority of the Belgian population was Catholic, the Church was allowed considerable influence in schools. The qualit ...
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Schoolstrijd
School struggle can refer to: * School struggle (Netherlands) (19th and 20th century) * First School War (Belgium, 1880s) * Second School War The Second School War (french: Deuxième guerre scolaire, nl, Tweede schoolstrijd) was a political crisis in Belgium over the issue of religion in education. The conflict lasted between 1950 and 1959 and was ended by a cross-party agreement, know ...

19th Century In Belgium
19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number. Mathematics 19 is the eighth prime number, and forms a sexy prime with 13, a twin prime with 17, and a cousin prime with 23. It is the third full reptend prime, the fifth central trinomial coefficient, and the seventh Mersenne prime exponent. It is also the second Keith number, and more specifically the first Keith prime. * 19 is the maximum number of fourth powers needed to sum up to any natural number, and in the context of Waring's problem, 19 is the fourth value of g(k). * The sum of the squares of the first 19 primes is divisible by 19. *19 is the sixth Heegner number. 67 and 163, respectively the 19th and 38th prime numbers, are the two largest Heegner numbers, of nine total. * 19 is the third centered triangular number as well as the third centered hexagonal number. : The 19th triangular number is 190, equivalently the sum of the first 19 non-zero integers, that is also ...
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1879 In Belgium
The following lists events that happened during 1879 in the Kingdom of Belgium. Incumbents *Monarch: Leopold II *Prime Minister: Walthère Frère-Orban Events * 2 March – Castle in Tervuren burns down. * 17 April – Firedamp explosion at Agrappe Mine in Frameries. * 1 July – Law secularising primary education passes, triggering First School War Publications ;Periodicals * ''Almanach de Poche de Bruxelles'' (Brussels, H. Manceaux) * ''Bulletin de la Société belge de géographie'', 3 (Brussels, Secrétariat de la Société Belge de Géographie) ;Books * Hendrik Conscience, ''Het wassen beeld'' * Léon Vanderkindere, ''Le siècle des Artevelde: études sur la civilisation morale & politique de la Flandre & du Brabant'' (Brussels, A.-N. Lebègue). Art and architecture * Leuven railway station rebuilt Births * 5 February –  Jules De Bisschop, Olympic rower (died 1954) * 15 February –  Camille Van Hoorden, footballer (died 1919) * 28 April – Edgard Tytgat, paint ...
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