1911 in Belgium
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{{Year in Belgium|1911}}
File:1911 Britannica - Map of Belgium and Luxemburg.png (1911)]]
Incumbents
- Monarch: Albert I
- Prime Minister: Frans Schollaert (to 17 June); Charles de Broqueville (from 17 June)
Events
File:1911 UK Antverpeno.jpg in Antwerp, August 1911]]
File:1911 Solvay conference.jpg, Brussels, October-November 1911]]
- 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
- Annales de l'Académie Royale d'Archéologie de Belgique, 63[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105074/ On Internet Archive]
- L'Expansion belge, vol. 4.
;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
- 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
- 18 April – Edmond Lefever (born 1839), sculptor
- 8 October – Marie Collart (born 1842), painter
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