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

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ "Albert I | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. ^ "200,000 Belgian Workers Go Out" (PDF). The New York Times. 15 April 1913. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  3. ^ a b 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.
  4. ^ "Peace Prizes. America and Belgium". The Advertiser. 12 December 1913. p. 15. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  5. ^ at Internet Archive.
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