Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/May/May 30

727 or 728: death of Hubertus, first bishop of Liège, the patron saint of hunters
1036: death of Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders
1213: start of the Battle of Damme, where England beat France
1814: birth of Eugène Charles Catalan (pictured), mathematician, stated Catalan's conjecture
1872: birth of Paul-Emile Janson, politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1937 and 1938
1901: death of Victor D'Hondt, mathematician and lawyer
1959: birth of Frank Vanhecke, chairman of the Vlaams Belang