1917_in_Belgium Knowpia

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See also:	Other events of 1917; List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1917 in Belgium.

Incumbents edit

1 May – Emilius Seghers consecrated as bishop of Ghent
7–14 June – Battle of Messines (1917)
31 July – 10 November – Battle of Passchendaele (also called Third Battle of Ypres)
31 July – 2 August – Battle of Pilckem Ridge
16–18 August – Battle of Langemarck (1917)
20–26 September – Battle of the Menin Road Ridge
26 September – 3 October – Battle of Polygon Wood
4 October – Battle of Broodseinde
9 October – Battle of Poelcappelle
12 October – First Battle of Passchendaele
26 October – 10 November – Second Battle of Passchendaele

Émile Cammaerts, Through the Iron Bars (Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium), with illustrations by Louis Raemaekers (London and New York, John Lane).^[2]
Hugh Gibson, A Diplomatic Diary (London, New York and Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, 1917).^[3]
Arnold J. Toynbee, The Belgian Deportations (London, T. Fisher Unwin)^[4]
Leon van der Essen, The Invasion & the War in Belgium from Liège to the Yser, with a sketch of the diplomatic negotiations preceding the conflict (London, T.F. Unwin).^[5]

5 January – Félix Wielemans (born 1863), Army Chief of Staff
30 January – Mutien-Marie Wiaux (born 1841), saint
2 March – Jules Van Dievoet (born 1844), lawyer
6 March – Jules Vandenpeereboom (born 1843), politician
25–26 March – Van Raemdonck Brothers, soldiers
13 May – Jules Schmalzigaug (born 1882/3), painter
28 May – Raoul Warocqué (born 1870), industrialist
7 June – Willie Redmond (born 1861), Irish nationalist
29 June – Frans Schollaert (born 1851), politician
4 July – Frank Shanley (born 1889), English footballer
12 July – Donald Cunnell (born 1893), British flying ace
31 July – Hedd Wyn (born 1887), poet
10 August – James Brannick (born 1889), footballer
11 August – Harold Ackroyd (born 1877), physician
16 August – Willie Doyle (born 1873), Irish Jesuit
21 August – Nellie Spindler (born 1891), nurse
5 September – Arthur Verhaegen (born 1847), architect and politician
19 September – Émile de Borchgrave (born 1837), historian and diplomat
21 September – Frederick Birks (born 1894), Australian soldier
28 September
- Patrick Bugden (born 1897), Australian soldier
- Kurt Wissemann (born 1893), German flying ace
9 November – Paul Wittouck (born 1851), industrialist

^ "Albert I | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
^ "Through the iron bars (Two years of German occupation in Belgium)". 1917.
^ "A diplomatic diary, by Hugh Gibson, secretary of the American legation in Brussels". 1917.
^ "The Belgian deportations". 1917.
^ "The invasion & the war in Belgium from Liège to the Yser, with a sketch of the diplomatic negotiations preceding the conflict". 1917.