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

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

Events

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

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

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, 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

• 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

• 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

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. 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