Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/August/August 17

• 754: death of Carloman son of Charles Martel, last Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
• 1304: at the Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle, the Flemish troops defeat the French army
• 1585: Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde, Burgomaster of Antwerp, signs the surrender of the city to the Spaniards after the Siege of Antwerp during the Eighty Years' War
• 1800: birth of Charles Rogier, one of the leaders of the Belgian Revolution and Prime Minister of Belgium for three times between 1832 and 1868
• 1817: birth of Constantine Bruno, Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, historian and minister in the Belgian federal government in 1870
• 1834: birth of Peter Benoit, composer
• 1954: birth of Ingrid Daubechies, mathematician
• 1959: death of Pierre Paulus, painter, designer of the rooster on the Walloon flag