3-05-1382 A la suite de la révolte des habitants de Gand en 1379, le Comte Louis II de Flandre prive Gand d’un accès à la mer. La victoire des Gandois à la Bataille de Beverhoutsveld encourage de nombreuses révoltes paysannes dans la région [more]

6-05-1889 The Assises of Monsthe trial of the victims of the repression of the general strike of 1887 opens. After 3 weeks of hearings, the jurors acquit all 267 accused. [more]

6-05-1902 Louis Franson and Oscar Querut, Socialist deputies, appear at the Charleroi Criminal Court accused of "infringing freedom of work" during the demonstration on April 16. Franson is acquitted, Querut is sentenced to 15 days in prison. [more]

8-05-1962 9 million workers participate in a work stoppage to protest against nuclear arms [more]

10-05-1900 Old Age Pensions Act comes into effect. [more]

10-05-1941 Exactly one year after the German invasion of that country, a group of women walked out of the Cockerill steelworks in Seraing. the movement spread like wildfire throughout Belgium. At the peak of the eight-day-long strike, sixty thousand workers joined in [more]

18-05-1941 The anti-Nazi 'Strike of the 100,000' ended. The Nazis were forced to grant an 8% pay increase, before arresting hundreds of strikers and sending many to the concentration camps. [more]

22-05-1887 The demonstrations of anger continue in La Louvière following the events of the 17th. A sentinel shoots a worker named Bailly and kills him. [more]

24-05-1914 200 quarry workers start a solidarity strike and demand the reinstatement of a comrade dismissed at the Carrière Lenoir in Lessines. [more]

30-05-1887 Striking workers' wives express their anger in Saint-Vaast and Jolimont where the Régiment des Guides charges them, sabers drawn. [more]