Editing Flag of Belgium (section)

==Independence and adoption of current flag==
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On 26 August 1830, the day after the rioting at the [[La Monnaie]] opera house and the start of the [[Belgian Revolution]], the [[flag of France]] flew from the [[Brussels town hall|city hall of Brussels]]. The insurgents hastily replaced it with a tricolour of red, yellow, and black horizontal stripes (similar to the one used during the [[Brabant Revolution]]<ref name=protocole/> of 1789–1790 which had established the [[United States of Belgium]]) made at a nearby fabric store. As a result, Article 193 of the [[Constitution of Belgium]] describes the colours of the Belgian nation as ''Red, Yellow, and Black,'' the reverse order shown in the official flag.<ref name=FOTW>{{Cite web|title=Belgium|url=http://flagspot.net/flags/be.html|publisher= [[Flags of the World (website)|Flags of the World]]|date=6 June 2009|access-date=3 October 2009}}</ref>

On 23 January 1831, the stripes changed from horizontal to vertical, and on 12 October, the flag attained its modern form, with the black placed at the [[Hoist (flag)|hoist side]] of the flag.<ref name=protocole/>