1911 in Belgium

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See also:| Other events of 1911
List of years in Belgium
Map of Belgium from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1911)

The following events took place during 1911 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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* Monarch: Albert I
* Prime Minister: Frans Schollaert (to 17 June); Charles de Broqueville (from 17 June)

## Events

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Organising committee of the World Esperanto Congress in Antwerp, August 1911 Participants in the first Solvay Conference, Brussels, October-November 1911

* 5 June – Law adopted regulating old-age pensions for miners over the age of 60, jointly funded by individual, employer and government contributions.[1]
* 8 June – Frans Schollaert tenders his resignation as prime minister due to the failure of his government's proposed education bill.[2]
* 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.[3]

## Balance of trade

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* Total imports: USD 870,135,289.[4]
* Total exports: USD 691,007,550.[4]

## Publications

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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, Éditions 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
* Émile Verhaeren, Les Heures du Soir; Les Plaines

## Births

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* 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

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* 3 January – Jean Pierre François Lamorinière (born 1828), painter
* 30 January – Léon Van Den Bossche (born 1841), diplomat
* 31 March – Édouard Dupont (born 1841), geologist
* 18 April – Edmond Lefever (born 1839), sculptor
* 8 October – Marie Collart (born 1842), painter

## References

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1. ^ Paul Errera, "Belgium", Britannica Year-Book 1913, edited by Hugh Chisholm (London and New York, 1913), p. 968.
2. ^ "Belgian Cabinet Out". The New York Times. 9 June 1911.
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ a b US Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Daily Consular and Trade Reports, vol. 4 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1913), p. 1588.
5. ^ On Internet Archive
6. ^ On Internet Archive
7. ^ On Internet Archive
8. ^ "Some old Flemish towns". New York, Moffat, Yard & co. 1911.
9. ^ On Internet Archive
10. ^ On Internet Archive
11. ^ On Internet Archive

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