1913 in Belgium
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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
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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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