Leopold II (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909, and the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. Leopold II. Royal portrait, c. 1900. King of the Belgians. Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant · King Leopold's Ghost · Congo Free State

II. Leopold (Leopold Lodewijk Filips Maria Victor van Saksen-Coburg en Gotha; 9 Nisan 1835 – 17 Aralık 1909) 1865'ten 1909'a kadar Belçika Kralı'ydı.

23 ијл 2024 · Leopold II, king of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909. He led the first European efforts to develop the Congo River basin.

King Leopold II. 1835. On 9 April, birth in Brussels of Leopold, Louis, Philippe, Marie, Victor, son of Leopold I (link is external) and Louise-Marie. 1853

(1835–1909). King of Belgium from 1865 to 1909, Leopold II was interested above all in acquiring colonies in Africa. In 1885 he became the ruler of the ...

King Leopold II, King of Belgium, began to establish trading posts, roads and arrange treaties with chiefs in Central Africa in 1879.

12 ијн 2020 · By 1908, Leopold II's rule was deemed so cruel that European leaders, themselves violently exploiting Africa, condemned it and the Belgian ...

Leopold II was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and, through his own efforts, the King-Sovereign of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908.

19 окт 2023 · On February 5, 1885, Belgian King Leopold II established the Congo Free State by brutally seizing the African landmass as his personal ...

King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909.