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1916 in Belgium
Summary
Events in the year
1916 in
Belgium
.
←
1915
1914
1913
1916
in
Belgium
→
1917
1918
1919
Decades:
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
See also:
Other events of 1916
List of years in Belgium
Incumbents
edit
Monarch
:
Albert I
[1]
Prime Minister
:
Charles de Broqueville
[2]
Events
edit
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
edit
Désiré-Joseph Mercier
,
A Signal of Distress from the Belgian Bishops to Public Opinion
(London, Eyre and Spottiswood)
[5]
Felix Timmermans
,
Pallieter
Births
edit
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
edit
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
edit
^
"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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