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Brussels

Founded on a saint's relics, rebuilt after Louis XIV levelled it, and now the seat of the European Union.

Dated events and their evidence

• 979 CE mainstream
  Charles of Lower Lotharingia brings Saint Gudula's relics — the city's founding source
• 1695 CE mainstream
  French bombardment destroys the Grand-Place and 4,000 buildings source
• 1830 CE mainstream
  capital of independent Belgium source
• 1960 CE disputed
  becomes the de facto capital of the European institutions (from the early 1960s) source

Where

50.8467° N, 4.3525° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Brussels
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Revolution

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