1905 in Belgium

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The following lists events that happened during 1905 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents[]

A Belgian postage stamp, 1905

Events[]

Baedeker map of Brussels, 1905
February
  • 5 February – General strike in Belgian coal fields begins.[2]: 768 
  • 10 February – Belgian Labour Party provides striking miners with 12.5 francs each in strike pay.[2]: 769 
March
  • 1 March – Art association Kunst van Heden founded in Antwerp.[2]: 769 
  • 11 March – General strike in the coal fields ends.[2]: 768 
April
Programme of the pageant to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Belgian independence
May
  • 1 May – Season of events to celebrate 75th anniversary of Belgian independence opened.[2]: 768 
  • 7 May – Belgians win international football fixture against France in Brussels, 7–0.[2]: 768 
June
  • 23 June – Strikes for shorter hours in Ghent textile mills.[2]: 768 
July
August
September
  • 27 September – King ceremonially opens Arcade du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.[6]
October
  • 12 October – First stone of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussels laid.[7]
November
  • 5 November – Independent committee of enquiry into abuses in the Congo Free State, set up in response to the publication of the Casement Report the previous year, releases its findings.[2]: 769 
  • 6 November – Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liège closes.[8]
  • 12 November – Formal opening of the Belgian-engineered Beijing–Hankou railway.[2]: 768 
  • 25 November – Christian democrats obtain episcopal recognition as a Catholic organisation.[2]: 768 
  • 30 November – in Liège to promote the culture of French-speaking Belgium and to oppose the movement for greater use of Dutch in public life.[2]: 770 

Publications[]

from Alphonse Dubois, Remarques sur l'ornithologie de l'État indépendant du Congo (Brussels, 1905)
  • La Nation Belge, 1830-1905, conférences jubilaires faites à l’Exposition Universelle et internationale de Liège en 1905 (Liège, Ch. Desoer & Brussels, P. Weissenbruch)
Periodicals
  • begins publication.[9]
Scholarship
  • Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 18.
  • , Chansons populaires des provinces belges (Brussels, Mainz, London, Leipzig)
  • Alphonse Dubois, Remarques sur l'ornithologie de l'État indépendant du Congo
  • Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert, La Renaissance septentrionale et les premiers maitres des Flandres (Brussels, Librarie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire)
  • Godefroid Kurth, La Patrie Belge: 75è Anniversaire de l'Indépendance Nationale (Namur)
  • Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 5.
  • Joseph Van den Gheyn, La préhistoire en Belgique (1830-1905) (1905)[10]
Literature

Art and architecture[]

Constantin Meunier, The Docker (1905)
Exhibitions
  • 15 July to 2 November – Retrospective of Belgian art, 1830-1905, Brussels[11]
Sculpture
  • Constantin Meunier, The Docker
Buildings
  • Victor Horta, Magasins Waucquez
  • Gédéon Bordiau and Charles Girault, Arcade du Cinquantenaire, Brussels

Births[]

  • 15 January – Jean Van Buggenhout, cyclist (died 1974)
  • 10 March – René Bernier, composer (died 1984)
  • 28 March – Jenny Toitgans, athlete
  • 1 April – Gaston Eyskens, politician (died 1988)
  • 3 April – Georges Lemaire, cyclist (died 1933)
  • 10 April – Edgard Viseur, athlete
  • 4 May – Désiré Acket, painter
  • 21 June – Alfred De Taeye, politician (died 1958)
  • 6 July – Suzanne Spaak, resistance operative (died 1944)
  • 22 October – Maurice Geldhof, cyclist (died 1970)
  • 17 November – Astrid of Sweden, Queen of the Belgians (died 1935)
  • 27 November – Daniel Sternefeld, composer (died 1986)
  • 18 December – Jane Graverol, painter (died 1984)

Deaths[]

  • 9 March – Paul Costermans (born 1860), deputy governor general of the Congo Free State, by his own hand
  • 4 April – Constantin Meunier (born 1831), painter and sculptor
  • 9 April – Léon d'Andrimont (born 1836), politician
  • 23 April – Théodore Nilis (born 1851), colonial official
  • 6 August – Léo Errera (born 1858), plant physiologist
  • 10 August – Georges Nagelmackers (born 1845), engineer and entrepreneur
  • 17 November – Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (born 1837), heir presumptive to the Belgian throne.
  • 12 December – Reimond Stijns (born 1850), writer

References[]

  1. ^ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
  3. ^ Liège et l'Exposition universelle de 1905, edited by Christine Renardy (Brussels, 2005).
  4. ^ Gaïdz Minassian, "The Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Operation 'Nejuik'", in To Kill a Sultan: A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhamid II (1905), edited by Houssine Alloul, Edhem Eldem and Henk de Smaele (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), p. 53.
  5. ^ "Event Information". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 1 Feb 2019.
  6. ^ "Arcade et hémicycle, Parc du Cinquantenaire". Inventaire du patrimoine architectural (in French). Brussels Capital Region.
  7. ^ Jean van Cleven, Neogotisch project: H. Hartbasiliek van Koekelberg, Vlaanderen, 40 (1991), pp. 200-201.
  8. ^ Liège et l'Exposition universelle de 1905, edited by Christine Renardy (Brussels, 2005).
  9. ^ Vol. 1 at Internet Archive
  10. ^ "La préhistoire en Belgique (1830-1905)". 1905.
  11. ^ "Catalogue illustré de l'exposition rétrospective de l'art belge : 15 juillet-2 novembre, 1905". 1905.
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