The following events took place during 1911 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Albert I Prime Minister: Frans Schollaert (to 17 June); Charles de Broqueville (from 17 June)
Events
5 June – Law adopted regulating old-age pensions for miners over the age of 60, jointly funded by individual, employer and government contributions.Paul Errera, "Belgium", Britannica Year-Book 1913, edited by Hugh Chisholm (London and New York, 1913), p. 968. 8 June – Frans Schollaert tenders his resignation as prime minister due to the failure of his government's proposed education bill. 17 June – Charles de Broqueville succeeds Frans Schollaert as prime minister. 20-27 August – World Esperanto Congress in Antwerp 30 October – First Solvay Conference convenes, chaired by Hendrik Lorentz.Paul Langevin and Maurice de Broglie (eds.), La théorie du rayonnement et les quanta: Rapports et discussions de la réunion tenue à Bruxelles, du 30 octobre au 3 novembre 1911, sous les auspices de M. E. Solvay (Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1912). On Internet Archive.
Balance of trade Total imports: USD 870,135,289.US Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Daily Consular and Trade Reports, vol. 4 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1913), p. 1588. Total exports: USD 691,007,550.
Publications Periodicals Annales de l'Académie Royale d'Archéologie de Belgique, 63On Internet Archive L'Expansion belge, vol. 4.
Books Demetrius Charles Boulger, Belgium of the Belgians (London, I. Pitman)On Internet Archive Pierre Broodcoorens, La mer: Légende lyrique en quatre parties (Brussels, Éditions de la Belgique artistique & littéraire)On Internet Archive George Wharton Edwards, Some Old Flemish Towns (New York, Moffat, Yard & co.) Clive Holland, The Belgians at Home (London, Methuen)On Internet Archive Benjamin Linnig, La gravure en Belgique; ou, Notices biographiques sur les graveurs anversois, bruxellois et autres, depuis les origines de la gravure jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe siècle (Antwerp, Janssens)On Internet Archive Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 4.On Internet Archive J.-H. Rosny, La Guerre du feu. Emile Vandervelde, Le Belgique et le Congo Émile Verhaeren, Les Heures du Soir; Les Plaines
Births 11 January – Pierre Caille, sculptor (died 1996) 16 March – Pierre Harmel, politician (died 2009) 14 May – Jean Borremans, politician (died 1968) 17 May – Albéric O'Kelly de Galway, chess grandmaster (died 1980) 26 November – Raymond Scheyven, politician (died 1987) 14 December – José Streel, journalist and Nazi collaborator (died 1946)
Deaths 3 January – Jean Pierre François Lamorinière (born 1828), painter 30 January – Léon Van Den Bossche (born 1841), diplomat 31 March – Édouard Dupont (born 1841), geologist 18 April – Edmond Lefever (born 1839), sculptor 8 October – Marie Collart (born 1842), painter
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