Belgium ndiyo nyika yokutanga yeEurope yakapinda muIndustrial Revolution, mukutanga kwezana remakore rechi19. Liège naCharleroi vakakurumidza kukudziridza migodhi uye simbi, izvo zvakabudirira kusvika pakati pezana remakore rechi20 muSambre neMuse Valley uye zvakaita kuti Belgium ive imwe yenyika nhatu dzakabudirira zvikuru munyika yose kubva muna 1830 kusvika muna 1910. Zvisinei, na1840s indasitiri yemachira yeFlanders yakanga iri munhamo yakaoma, uye nharaunda yakasangana nenzara kubva muna 1846 kusvika muna 1850. Mushure meHondo Yenyika II, Ghent neAntwerp vakasangana nekukurumidza kuwedzera kwemakemikari nemaindasitiri emafuta. Dambudziko remafuta ra1973 na1979 rakatumira hupfumi mukuderera; yakanyanya kuwedzerwa muWallonia, uko indasitiri yesimbi yakanga isisina kukwikwidzana uye yakasangana nekuderera kwakakomba.
Makore 1846