Events in the year 1912 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Albert I Prime Minister: Charles de Broqueville
Events
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. 9 June – Provincial elections 15 August – Revue de Belgique publishes Jules Destrée's open letter to the King calling for the separation of the Belgian state. 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) William Elliot Griffis, Belgium: The Land of Art (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin company) Émile Verhaeren, Les Blés mouvants S. Leguet, Belgium IllustratedBelgium Illustrated on Google Books
Art and architecture
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
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)
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