1905 in Belgium

1905
in
Belgium

Decades:
See also:Other events of 1905
List of years in Belgium

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

Incumbents

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A Belgian postage stamp, 1905
A Belgian postage stamp, 1905

Events

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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
October
November

Publications

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Eastern little hornbill 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
Scholarship
Literature

Art and architecture

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Constantin Meunier, The Docker (1905)
Exhibitions
  • 15 July to 2 November – Retrospective of Belgian art, 1830-1905, Brussels[11]
Sculpture
Buildings

Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. ^ 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.