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Belgian National Day ((オランダ語:Nationale feestdag van België); (フランス語:Fête nationale belge); (ドイツ語:Belgischer Nationalfeiertag)) is the National Day of Belgium celebrated on 21 July each year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Belgium.be )〕 It is one of ten public holidays in Belgium. The festival's formal establishment dates to a law of 27 May 1890〔Gustave Viatour et Alfred de Groote, ''Dictionnaire des honneurs, rangs et préséances, suivi du décret impérial du 24 messidor, an xii, annoté pour la Belgique.'', Ghent 1899, , p. 40.〕 and commemorates an event on 21 July 1831 in which Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg swore allegiance to the new Belgian constitution, thus becoming the first ''King of the Belgians''.〔 The king's vow marked the start of the independent state of Belgium under a constitutional monarchy and parliament. ==History== In 1830, drawing inspiration from the recent July Revolution in France, the southern provinces of the United Netherlands rebelled against Dutch rule after a period of growing economic and religious disparity and political alienation. The Dutch were forced out of much of the area and Belgium gained ''de facto'' independence. A National Congress was created to write a Constitution for the new state. The Congress decided that the new country would be a constitutional monarchy (associated with political stability) rather than a republic, in order to reassure foreign governments and the Belgian middle class who associated republicanism with "mob rule" in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789. The Congress called upon Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha, a German nobleman, to be the first King of the Belgians on 4 June 1831. Accepting the invitation, Leopold travelled to Brussels from England via Calais and De Panne by carriage. On 21 July, the temporary regent Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier officially relinquished his position and Leopold was crowned King. In the ceremony, Leopold vowed to accept the Constitution drawn up by the National Congress, officially bringing it into force. The 21 July 1831, is therefore a date commonly used by historians to denote the end of the Belgian Revolution and the start of the Kingdom of Belgium. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Belgian National Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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