1905 in Belgium
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The following lists events that happened during 1905 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- February
- 5 February â General strike in Belgian coal fields begins.[2]:â768â
- 10 February â Belgian Labour Party provides striking miners with 12.5 francs each in strike pay.[2]:â769â
- March
- 1 March â Art association Kunst van Heden founded in Antwerp.[2]:â769â
- 11 March â General strike in the coal fields ends.[2]:â768â
- April
- 27 April â Opening of the Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liège.[3]
- 30 April â First international football fixture between Belgium and the Netherlands held in Antwerp; Dutch win 1â4.[2]:â768â
- May
- 1 May â Season of events to celebrate 75th anniversary of Belgian independence opened.[2]:â768â
- 7 May â Belgians win international football fixture against France in Brussels, 7â0.[2]:â768â
- June
- 23 June â Strikes for shorter hours in Ghent textile mills.[2]:â768â
- July
- 26 July â Law promulgated making Sunday an obligatory day of rest in trade and industry.[2]:â769â
- 27 July â Edward Joris arrested in Istanbul for his part in the Yıldız assassination attempt.[4]
- August
- 1 to 6 August â 1905 European Rowing Championships held on the GhentâTerneuzen Canal in Ghent.[5]
- 12 August â King opens new sports stadium in Antwerp.[2]:â768â
- September
- 27 September â King ceremonially opens Arcade du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.[6]
- October
- 12 October â First stone of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussels laid.[7]
- November
- 5 November â 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]:â769â
- 6 November â Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liège closes.[8]
- 12 November â Formal opening of the Belgian-engineered BeijingâHankou railway.[2]:â768â
- 25 November â Christian democrats obtain episcopal recognition as a Catholic organisation.[2]:â768â
- 30 November â Walloon Congress in Liège to promote the culture of French-speaking Belgium and to oppose the movement for greater use of Dutch in public life.[2]:â770â
Publications
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- La Nation Belge, 1830-1905, conférences jubilaires faites à lâExposition Universelle et internationale de Liège en 1905 (Liège, Ch. Desoer & Brussels, P. Weissenbruch)
- Periodicals
- La Belgique Artistique et Littéraire begins publication.[9]
- Scholarship
- Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 18.
- Ernest Closson, Chansons populaires des provinces belges (Brussels, Mainz, London, Leipzig)
- Alphonse Dubois, Remarques sur l'ornithologie de l'Ãtat 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
- Mark Twain, King Leopold's Soliloquy (Boston)
- Ãmile Verhaeren, Les heures d'après-midi (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Art and architecture
- Exhibitions
- 15 July to 2 November â Retrospective of Belgian art, 1830-1905, Brussels[11]
- Sculpture
- Constantin Meunier, The Docker
- Buildings
Births
- 15 January â Jean Van Buggenhout, cyclist (died 1974)
- 10 March â René Bernier, composer (died 1984)
- 28 March â Jenny Toitgans, athlete
- 1 April â Gaston Eyskens, politician (died 1988)
- 3 April â Georges Lemaire, cyclist (died 1933)
- 10 April â Edgard Viseur, athlete
- 4 May â Désiré Acket, painter (died 1987)
- 21 June â Alfred De Taeye, politician (died 1958)
- 6 July â Suzanne Spaak, resistance operative (died 1944)
- 22 October â Maurice Geldhof, cyclist (died 1970)
- 17 November â Astrid of Sweden, Queen of the Belgians (died 1935)
- 27 November â Daniel Sternefeld, composer (died 1986)
- 18 December â Jane Graverol, painter (died 1984)
Deaths
- 9 March â Paul Costermans (born 1860), deputy governor general of the Congo Free State, by his own hand
- 4 April â Constantin Meunier (born 1831), painter and sculptor
- 9 April â Léon d'Andrimont (born 1836), politician
- 23 April â Théodore Nilis (born 1851), colonial official
- 6 August â Léo Errera (born 1858), plant physiologist
- 10 August â Georges Nagelmackers (born 1845), engineer and entrepreneur
- 17 November â Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (born 1837), heir presumptive to the Belgian throne.
- 12 December â Reimond Stijns (born 1850), writer
