1905 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1905 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

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See also:Other events of 1905
List of years in Belgium

Incumbents
A Belgian postage stamp, 1905
A Belgian postage stamp, 1905

Events
Baedeker map of Brussels, 1905
February
  • 5 February – General strike in Belgian coal fields begins.[2]: 768 
  • 10 February – Belgian Labour Party provides striking miners with 12.5 francs each in strike pay.[2]: 769 
March
  • 1 March – Art association Kunst van Heden founded in Antwerp.[2]: 769 
  • 11 March – General strike in the coal fields ends.[2]: 768 
April
Programme of the pageant to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Belgian independence
May
  • 1 May – Season of events to celebrate 75th anniversary of Belgian independence opened.[2]: 768 
  • 7 May – Belgians win international football fixture against France in Brussels, 7–0.[2]: 768 
June
  • 23 June – Strikes for shorter hours in Ghent textile mills.[2]: 768 
July
August
September
October
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.[2]: 769 
  • 6 November – Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liège closes.[8]
  • 12 November – Formal opening of the Belgian-engineered Beijing–Hankou railway.[2]: 768 
  • 25 November – Christian democrats obtain episcopal recognition as a Catholic organisation.[2]: 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.[2]: 770 

Publications
Eastern little hornbill 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.[9]
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)[10]
Literature

Art and architecture
Constantin Meunier, The Docker (1905)
Exhibitions
  • 15 July to 2 November – Retrospective of Belgian art, 1830-1905, Brussels[11]
Sculpture
Buildings

Births

Deaths

References
  1. "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
  3. Liège et l'Exposition universelle de 1905, edited by Christine Renardy (Brussels, 2005).
  4. 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.
  5. "Event Information". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 1 Feb 2019.
  6. "Arcade et hémicycle, Parc du Cinquantenaire". Inventaire du patrimoine architectural (in French). Brussels Capital Region.
  7. Jean van Cleven, Neogotisch project: H. Hartbasiliek van Koekelberg, Vlaanderen, 40 (1991), pp. 200-201.
  8. Liège et l'Exposition universelle de 1905, edited by Christine Renardy (Brussels, 2005).
  9. Vol. 1 at Internet Archive
  10. "La préhistoire en Belgique (1830-1905)". 1905.
  11. "Catalogue illustré de l'exposition rétrospective de l'art belge : 15 juillet-2 novembre, 1905". 1905.
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