1911 in Belgium

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{{Year in Belgium|1911}}

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The following events took place during 1911 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Events

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  • 8 June – Frans Schollaert tenders his resignation as prime minister due to the failure of his government's proposed education bill.{{Cite news|title=Belgian Cabinet Out|newspaper=The New York Times|date=9 June 1911|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1911/06/09/archives/belgian-cabinet-out-resigns-owing-to-friction-over-the-ministerial.html}}
  • 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.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). [https://archive.org/details/lathoriedurayo00inst/ On Internet Archive].

Balance of trade

  • Total imports: USD 870,135,289.US Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Daily Consular and Trade Reports, vol. 4 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1913), p. 1588.
  • Total exports: USD 691,007,550.

Publications

;Periodicals

;Books

  • Demetrius Charles Boulger, Belgium of the Belgians (London, I. Pitman)[https://archive.org/details/belgiumofbelgian00bouliala/ On Internet Archive]
  • Pierre Broodcoorens, La mer: Légende lyrique en quatre parties (Brussels, Éditions de la Belgique artistique & littéraire)[https://archive.org/details/lamerlgendelyr00broo/ On Internet Archive]
  • George Wharton Edwards, Some Old Flemish Towns (New York, Moffat, Yard & co.){{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/someoldflemisht00edwagoog | title=Some old Flemish towns | year=1911 | publisher=New York, Moffat, Yard & co. }}
  • Clive Holland, The Belgians at Home (London, Methuen)[https://archive.org/details/belgiansathome00holl/ On Internet Archive]
  • 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)[https://archive.org/details/lagravureenbelgi00linn/page/n10 On Internet Archive]
  • Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 4.[https://archive.org/details/histoiredebelgiq04pireuoft/ On Internet Archive]
  • J.-H. Rosny, La Guerre du feu.
  • Emile Vandervelde, Le Belgique et le Congo
  • Émile Verhaeren, Les Heures du Soir; Les Plaines

Births

Deaths

References

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