1911 in Belgium

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

 * 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.

Balance of trade

 * Total imports: USD 870,135,289.
 * Total exports: USD 691,007,550.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Annales de l'Académie Royale d'Archéologie de Belgique, 63
 * L'Expansion belge, vol. 4.


 * Books
 * Demetrius Charles Boulger, Belgium of the Belgians (London, I. Pitman)
 * Pierre Broodcoorens, La mer: Légende lyrique en quatre parties (Brussels, Éditions de la Belgique artistique & littéraire)
 * George Wharton Edwards, Some Old Flemish Towns (New York, Moffat, Yard & co.)
 * Clive Holland, The Belgians at Home (London, Methuen)
 * 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)
 * Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 4.
 * 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)

Deaths

 * 3 January – Jean Pierre François Lamorinière (born 1828), painter
 * 30 January – Léon Van Den Bossche (born 1841), diplomat
 * 18 April – Edmond Lefever (born 1839), sculptor
 * 8 October – Marie Collart (born 1842), painter