1911 in Belgium
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The following events took place during 1911 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Albert I
- Prime Minister: Frans Schollaert (to 17 June); Charles de Broqueville (from 17 June)
Events
- 5 June â Law adopted regulating old-age pensions for miners over the age of 60, jointly funded by individual, employer and government contributions.[1]
- 8 June â Frans Schollaert tenders his resignation as prime minister due to the failure of his government's proposed education bill.[2]
- 17 June â Charles de Broqueville succeeds Frans Schollaert as prime minister.
- 20-27 August â World Esperanto Congress in Antwerp
- 30 October â First Solvay Conference convenes, chaired by Hendrik Lorentz.[3]
Balance of trade
Publications
- Periodicals
- Annales de l'Académie Royale d'Archéologie de Belgique, 63[5]
- L'Expansion belge, vol. 4.
- Books
- Demetrius Charles Boulger, Belgium of the Belgians (London, I. Pitman)[6]
- Pierre Broodcoorens, La mer: Légende lyrique en quatre parties (Brussels, Ãditions de la Belgique artistique & littéraire)[7]
- George Wharton Edwards, Some Old Flemish Towns (New York, Moffat, Yard & co.)[8]
- Clive Holland, The Belgians at Home (London, Methuen)[9]
- 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)[10]
- Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 4.[11]
- J.-H. Rosny, La Guerre du feu.
- Emile Vandervelde, Le Belgique et le Congo
- Ãmile Verhaeren, Les Heures du Soir; Les Plaines
Births
- 11 January â Pierre Caille, sculptor (died 1996)
- 16 March â Pierre Harmel, politician (died 2009)
- 14 May â Jean Borremans, politician (died 1968)
- 17 May â Albéric O'Kelly de Galway, chess grandmaster (died 1980)
- 26 November â Raymond Scheyven, politician (died 1987)
- 14 December â José Streel, journalist and Nazi collaborator (died 1946)
Deaths
- 3 January â Jean Pierre François Lamorinière (born 1828), painter
- 30 January â Léon Van Den Bossche (born 1841), diplomat
- 31 March â Ãdouard Dupont (born 1841), geologist
- 18 April â Edmond Lefever (born 1839), sculptor
- 8 October â Marie Collart (born 1842), painter
