Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An kafa Jami'ar Free University of Brussels a matsayin Jami'ar Free University of Belgium ("Université libre de Belgique") a ranar 20 ga Nuwamba 1834 bayan samun 'yancin kai na Belgium
a shekara ta 1830. Belgium ta mallaki jami'o'in Jiha uku a Leuven, Ghent, da Liège a ƙarƙashin mulkin Dutch amma koyarwar ta rikice sosai saboda juyin juya hali da ci gaba da rikice-rikice da Dutch. Tun farkon 1831, masanan 'yanci na Belgian na "Les Amis philanthropes" lodge sun yi la'akari da kafa sabon jami'a mai zaman kansa. Labarin da ke gab da kafa Jami'ar Katolika ta Mechelen ya sake farfado da shirin tsakanin waɗanda ke da ra'ayoyin da ba na addini ba, musamman ma Freemasons, masu sassaucin ra'ayi, da sauran masu tunani. Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen da Auguste Baron sun jagoranci tara kuɗi don sabon cibiyar daga Afrilu 1834. An kafa shi a hukumance a ranar 20 ga Nuwamba 1834 a cikin tsohon Fadar Charles na Lorraine a Brussels tare da taimakon magajin garin Nicolas-Jean Rouppe. Ana tunawa da ranar da aka kafa ta kowace shekara ta ɗaliban cibiyoyin da suka gaje ta a matsayin "St V".