1905 in Belgium

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List of years in Belgium

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

## Incumbents[edit]

A Belgian postage stamp, 1905

* Monarch: Leopold II[1]
* Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer

## Events[edit]

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

* 27 April – Opening of the Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liège.[3]
* 30 April – First international football fixture between Belgium and the Netherlands held in Antwerp; Dutch win 1–4.[2]: 768

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

* 26 July – Law promulgated making Sunday an obligatory day of rest in trade and industry.[2]: 769
* 27 July – Edward Joris arrested in Istanbul for his part in the Yıldız assassination attempt.[4]

August

* 1 to 6 August – 1905 European Rowing Championships held on the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal in Ghent.[5]
* 12 August – King opens new sports stadium in Antwerp.[2]: 768

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 – 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]: 770

## Publications[edit]

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

* 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'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

* Mark Twain, King Leopold's Soliloquy (Boston)
* Émile Verhaeren, Les heures d'après-midi (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

## Art and architecture[edit]

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[edit]

* 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 (died 1987)
* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

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.

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