1916 in Belgium
List of events
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Events in the year 1916 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Albert I[1]
- Prime Minister: Charles de Broqueville[2]
Events
- 2–14 June – Battle of Mont Sorrel[3]
- 19 September – Belgian forces occupy Tabora in German East Africa (East African campaign)
- 19 October – Cardinal Mercier protests the deportation of forced labourers to Germany.[4]
Publications
- Désiré-Joseph Mercier, A Signal of Distress from the Belgian Bishops to Public Opinion (London, Eyre and Spottiswood)[5]
- Felix Timmermans, Pallieter
Births
- 21 January – Renaat Van Elslande, politician (died 2000)
- 9 February – Gaston Van Roy, Olympic shooter (died 1989)
- 7 March – Marie-Thérèse Bourquin, lawyer (died 2018)
- 1 June – Jean Jérôme Hamer, cardinal (died 1996)
- 16 April – Richard De Smet, Jesuit (died 1997)
- 27 August – Robert Van Eenaeme, cyclist (died 1959)
- 7 September – Charles Vanden Wouwer, footballer (died 1989)
- 7 October – Léonce-Albert Van Peteghem, bishop of Ghent (died 2004)
- 10 October – Bernard Heuvelmans, cryptozoologist (died 2001)
- 18 October – Jacques Van Offelen, politician (died 2006)
- 28 November – Mary Lilian Baels, second wife of King Leopold III of Belgium (died 2002)
- 30 November – Andrée de Jongh, patriot (died 2007)
- 30 December – Robert-Joseph Mathen, bishop (died 1997)
Deaths
- 4 January – Godefroid Kurth (born 1847), historian
- 12 March – Julien Davignon (born 1854), Catholic politician[6]
- 1 April – Gabrielle Petit (born 1893), patriot
- 16 May – Émile Royer (born 1866), politician
- 1 June – François Stroobant (born 1819), lithographer
- 11 July – Rik Wouters (born 1882), painter
- 5 November – Antoon Stillemans (born 1832), bishop of Ghent
- 27 November – Émile Verhaeren (born 1855), poet
References
- ^ "Albert I - king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
- ^ "Baron Charles de Broqueville". www.firstworldwar.com. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
- ^ "Land Battles - Mount Sorrel". Canada and the First World War. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ Fernand Passelecq, Les déportation belges à la lumière des documents allemands (Berger-Levrault, 1917), p. 324.
- ^ "A signal of distress from the Belgian bishops to public opinion.The story of the Belgian deportations".
- ^ "Julien Davignon (1854-1916)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
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