1913 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1913 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Albert I
- Prime Minister: Charles de Broqueville
Events
- April
- 14 April – Socialists call general strike demanding electoral reform.[1]
- 22 April – General strike ends
- 26 April – King Albert formally opens Exposition universelle et internationale (world's fair) held in Ghent.[2]
- November
- 3 November – Exposition universelle et internationale (world's fair) in Ghent ends.[2]
- December
- 10 December – Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Henri La Fontaine, head of the International Peace Bureau.[3]
Births
- 21 August – François Devries, footballer (died 1972)
- 15 November – Arthur Haulot, journalist (died 2005)
Deaths
- 13 June – Camille Lemonnier (born 1844), writer
- 9 September – Paul de Smet de Naeyer (born 1843), former prime minister
References
- ↑ "200,000 Belgian Workers Go Out" (PDF). New York Times. 15 April 1913. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- 1 2 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.
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