1905 in Belgium

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• Monarch: Leopold II{{cite web |title=Leopold II {{!}} king of Belgium |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leopold-II-king-of-Belgium |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=28 March 2019 |language=en}}
• Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer

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;February

• 5 February – General strike in Belgian coal fields begins.Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).{{rp|768}}
• 10 February – Belgian Labour Party provides striking miners with 12.5 francs each in strike pay.{{r|Kroniek|p=769}}

;March

• 1 March – Art association Kunst van Heden founded in Antwerp.{{r|Kroniek|p=769}}
• 11 March – General strike in the coal fields ends.{{r|Kroniek|p=768}}

;April

• 27 April – Opening of the Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liège.Liège et l'Exposition universelle de 1905, edited by Christine Renardy (Brussels, 2005).
• 30 April – First international football fixture between Belgium and the Netherlands held in Antwerp; Dutch win 1–4.{{r|Kroniek|p=768}}

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;May

• 1 May – Season of events to celebrate 75th anniversary of Belgian independence opened.{{r|Kroniek|p=768}}
• 7 May – Belgians win international football fixture against France in Brussels, 7–0.{{r|Kroniek|p=768}}

;June

• 23 June – Strikes for shorter hours in Ghent textile mills.{{r|Kroniek|p=768}}

;July

• 26 July – Law promulgated making Sunday an obligatory day of rest in trade and industry.{{r|Kroniek|p=769}}
• 27 July – Edward Joris arrested in Istanbul for his part in the Yıldız assassination attempt.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.

;August

• 1 to 6 August – 1905 European Rowing Championships held on the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal in Ghent.{{cite web |title= Event Information|url=http://www.worldrowing.com/events/1905-european-championships/event-information |publisher=International Rowing Federation|access-date=1 Feb 2019}}
• 12 August – King opens new sports stadium in Antwerp.{{r|Kroniek|p=768}}

;September

• 27 September – King ceremonially opens Arcade du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.{{Cite web|url=http://www.irismonument.be/fr.Bruxelles_Extension_Est.Parc_du_Cinquantenaire.A016.html |title=Arcade et hémicycle, Parc du Cinquantenaire |website=Inventaire du patrimoine architectural |publisher=Brussels Capital Region |language=fr}}

;October

• 12 October – First stone of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussels laid.Jean van Cleven, [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_vla016199101_01/_vla016199101_01_0061.php Neogotisch project: H. Hartbasiliek van Koekelberg], Vlaanderen, 40 (1991), pp. 200-201.

;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.{{r|Kroniek|p=769}}
• 6 November – Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liège closes.Liège et l'Exposition universelle de 1905, edited by Christine Renardy (Brussels, 2005).
• 12 November – Formal opening of the Belgian-engineered Beijing–Hankou railway.{{r|Kroniek|p=768}}
• 25 November – Christian democrats obtain episcopal recognition as a Catholic organisation.{{r|Kroniek|p=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.{{r|Kroniek|p=770}}

File:Remarques sur l'ornithologie de l'État indépendant du Congo (Pl. V) (7164289188).jpg 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.[https://archive.org/details/labelgiqueartist01unse/ Vol. 1 at Internet Archive]

;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){{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/b30606780|title = La préhistoire en Belgique (1830-1905)|year = 1905}}

;Literature

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

File:MFA Meunier Le Débardeur.jpg, The Docker (1905)]]

;Exhibitions

• 15 July to 2 November – Retrospective of Belgian art, 1830-1905, Brussels{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/catalogueillustre00soci/page/n4|title = Catalogue illustré de l'exposition rétrospective de l'art belge : 15 juillet-2 novembre, 1905|year = 1905}}

;Sculpture

• Constantin Meunier, The Docker

;Buildings

• Victor Horta, Magasins Waucquez
• Gédéon Bordiau and Charles Girault, Arcade du Cinquantenaire, Brussels

• 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)

• 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

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