Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/November/November 4

• 1576: Spain captures Antwerp in the Eighty Years' War and start the Sack of Antwerp: the loss of 8,000 lives and the destruction and looting is known as the Spanish Fury
• 1652: death of Jean-Charles de la Faille, mathematician
• 1918: the Battle of the Sambre, one of the final Allied offensives of World War I