1913 in Belgium

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Decades:

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See also:

Other events of 1913
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1913 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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]

Births

17 January – Werenfried van Straaten, priest (died 2003)
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

"Albert I | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
"200,000 Belgian Workers Go Out" (PDF). The New York Times. 15 April 1913. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
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.
"Peace Prizes. America and Belgium". The Advertiser. 12 December 1913. p. 15. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
at Internet Archive.

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Years in Belgium
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1913 in Europe
Sovereign states	Albania Andorra Austria-Hungary Baden Belgium Bulgaria Denmark France Germany Greece Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Ottoman Empire Portugal Prussia Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom
Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Cyprus Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Malta

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