Ko Belgium te whenua tuatahi o te whenua o Uropi i uru ki te Industrial Revolution, i te timatanga o te rautau 19. Liège me Charleroi tere whakawhanakehia maina me te hanga maitai, e kua tae noa ki te waenganui o te rautau 20 i roto i te Sambre me Meuse raorao, me te hanga Belgium i roto i tetahi o nga whenua tino ahumahi e toru i roto i te ao i 1830 ki 1910. Heoi, i te 1840s te ahumahi kupenga o Flanders i roto i te mate nui, a ka ite te rohe matekai i 1846 ki 1850. I muri i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, Ghent me Antwerp ite i te whakawhānui tere o te ahumahi matū me te hinu.
Ko te tau 1846