The following events took place during 1911 in Belgium.
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Incumbents edit
- Monarch: Albert I
- Prime Minister: Frans Schollaert (to 17 June); Charles de Broqueville (from 17 June)
Events edit
- 8 June – Frans Schollaert tenders his resignation as prime minister due to the failure of his government's proposed education bill.[1]
- 17 June – Charles de Broqueville succeeds Frans Schollaert as prime minister.
- 20-27 August – World Esperanto Congress in Antwerp
- 30 October – First Solvay Conference convenes, chaired by Hendrik Lorentz.[2]
Balance of trade edit
Publications edit
- Periodicals
- Annales de l'Académie Royale d'Archéologie de Belgique, 63[4]
- L'Expansion belge, vol. 4.
- Books
- Demetrius Charles Boulger, Belgium of the Belgians (London, I. Pitman)[5]
- Pierre Broodcoorens, La mer: Légende lyrique en quatre parties (Brussels, Éditions de la Belgique artistique & littéraire)[6]
- George Wharton Edwards, Some Old Flemish Towns (New York, Moffat, Yard & co.)[7]
- Clive Holland, The Belgians at Home (London, Methuen)[8]
- Benjamin Linnig, La gravure en Belgique; ou, Notices biographiques sur les graveurs anversois, bruxellois et autres, depuis les origines de la gravure jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe siècle (Antwerp, Janssens)[9]
- Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 4.[10]
- J.-H. Rosny, La Guerre du feu.
- Emile Vandervelde, Le Belgique et le Congo
- Émile Verhaeren, Les Heures du Soir; Les Plaines
Births edit
- 11 January – Pierre Caille, sculptor (died 1996)
- 16 March – Pierre Harmel, politician (died 2009)
- 14 May – Jean Borremans, politician (died 1968)
- 17 May – Albéric O'Kelly de Galway, chess grandmaster (died 1980)
- 26 November – Raymond Scheyven, politician (died 1987)
Deaths edit
- 3 January – Jean Pierre François Lamorinière (born 1828), painter
- 30 January – Léon Van Den Bossche (born 1841), diplomat
- 18 April – Edmond Lefever (born 1839), sculptor
- 8 October – Marie Collart (born 1842), painter
References edit
- ^ "Belgian Cabinet Out". The New York Times. 9 June 1911.
- ^ Paul Langevin and Maurice de Broglie (eds.), La théorie du rayonnement et les quanta: Rapports et discussions de la réunion tenue à Bruxelles, du 30 octobre au 3 novembre 1911, sous les auspices de M. E. Solvay (Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1912). On Internet Archive.
- ^ a b US Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Daily Consular and Trade Reports, vol. 4 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1913), p. 1588.
- ^ On Internet Archive
- ^ On Internet Archive
- ^ On Internet Archive
- ^ "Some old Flemish towns". New York, Moffat, Yard & co. 1911.
- ^ On Internet Archive
- ^ On Internet Archive
- ^ On Internet Archive
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