1913 in Belgium

← 1912 1911 1910 1913 in Belgium → 1914 1915 1916
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	Other events of 1913 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1913 in Belgium .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Albert I ^[1]
• Prime Minister: Charles de Broqueville

Events

Poster for the Ghent World's Fair

April

• 14 April – Socialists call general strike demanding electoral reform. ^[2]
• 22 April – General strike ends
• 26 April – King Albert formally opens Exposition universelle et internationale (world's fair) held in Ghent. ^[3]

November

• 3 November – Exposition universelle et internationale (world's fair) in Ghent ends. ^[3]

December

• 10 December – Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Henri La Fontaine, head of the International Peace Bureau. ^[4]

Publications

• Biographie Nationale de Belgique , vol. 21.
• G. A. Boulenger, The Snakes of Europe (London, Methuen). ^[5]
• Demetrius Charles Boulger, Belgium (Detroit, Bay View Reading Club) ^[6]

Births

• 17 January – Werenfried van Straaten, priest (died 2003)
• 10 March – J. A. van Houtte, historian (died 2002)
• 21 August – François Devries, footballer (died 1972)
• 15 November – Arthur Haulot, journalist (died 2005)
• 3 December – Omer Vanaudenhove, politician (died 1994)

Deaths

• 29 January – Joseph Van den Gheyn (born 1854), librarian
• 13 June – Camille Lemonnier (born 1844), writer
• 13 August – Hildebrand de Hemptinne (born 1849), abbot
• 9 September – Paul de Smet de Naeyer (born 1843), former prime minister

References

1. "Albert I | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. "200,000 Belgian Workers Go Out" (PDF). The New York Times . 15 April 1913. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
3. Davy Depelchin, "The Ghent Universal and International Exhibition of 1913: Reconciling Historicism, Modernity and Exoticism", in Cultures of International Exhibitions 1840-1940, edited by Marta Filipova (Farnham, 2015), p. 185. Partial preview on Google Books.
4. "Peace Prizes. America and Belgium". The Advertiser . 12 December 1913. p. 15. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
5. Snakes of Europe on Internet Archive.
6. Belgium on Internet Archive.