1912 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1912 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1912 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Albert I[1]
• Prime Minister: Charles de Broqueville

Events

René Thomas, winner of the 1912 Coupe d'Ostende

• Date uncertain – Jean Neuhaus II begins producing soft-centre pralines to be sold in the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert
• 5 May-22 July – Belgium at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm
• 2 June – 1912 Belgian general election returns the Catholic Party to power with an increased majority.
• 15 August – Revue de Belgique publishes Jules Destrée's open letter to the King calling for the separation of the Belgian state.[2]
• 28 October – Léonie de Waha and Marguerite Delchef found the Union des femmes de Wallonie
• 3 November – Frenchman René Thomas wins the Coupe d'Ostende
• December – Antwerp Engineering Co. completes work on the Hispania

Publications

• Thomas Braun, Fumée d'Ardenne, with cover art by Georges Lemmen (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
• Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert, Les Primitifs Flamands, volume 2 (Brussels, G. Van Oest)
• Émile Verhaeren, Les Blés mouvants

Art and architecture

Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station, opened 1912

Paintings

• Fernand Khnopff, Portrait of Prince Leopold of Belgium

Buildings

• Louis Cloquet, Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station

Births

• 12 January – Charles Moeller, theologian and literary critic (died 1986)
• 15 March – Louis Paul Boon, novelist (died 1979)
• 27 April – Franz Weyergans, writer and translator (died 1974)
• 3 May – May Sarton, writer (died 1995)
• 31 May – Jean de Selys Longchamps, RAF fighter pilot (died 1943)
• 4 July – Edward Vissers, cyclist (died 1994)
• 8 July – Jacques Stehman, composer (died 1975)
• 10 August – Romain Maes, cyclist (died 1983)
• 22 September – Éloi Meulenberg, cyclist (died 1989)
• 24 September – Pierre Fallon, missionary (died 1985)
• 6 October – Adolf Braeckeveldt, cyclist (died 1985)
• 24 November – François Neuville, cyclist (died 1986)

Deaths

Auguste Beernaert (1829–1912), Prime Minister 1884–1894

• 28 January – Gustave de Molinari (born 1819), economist
• 31 March – Gustave Boël (born 1837), industrialist and politician
• 10 May – Arthur Gaillard (born 1847), archivist
• 25 June – Louis-Joseph Antoine (born 1846), faith healer
• 6 October – Auguste Beernaert (born 1829), politician
• 23 November – Charles Bourseul (born 1829), telegraph engineer
• 26 November – Princess Marie of Belgium (born 1845)

References

1. "Albert I | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. "Belgium may separate" (PDF). The New York Times. 8 September 1912.