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The following lists events that happened during 1905 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Incumbents

A Belgian postage stamp, 1905
Events

Baedeker map of Brussels, 1905
- February
 
- 5 February – General strike in Belgian coal fields begins.[2]: 768
 - 10 February – Belgian Labour Party provides striking miners with 12.5 francs each in strike pay.[2]: 769
 
- March
 
- 1 March – Art association Kunst van Heden founded in Antwerp.[2]: 769
 - 11 March – General strike in the coal fields ends.[2]: 768
 
- April
 
- 27 April – Opening of the Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liège.[3]
 - 30 April – First international football fixture between Belgium and the Netherlands held in Antwerp; Dutch win 1–4.[2]: 768
 

Programme of the pageant to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Belgian independence
- May
 
- 1 May – Season of events to celebrate 75th anniversary of Belgian independence opened.[2]: 768
 - 7 May – Belgians win international football fixture against France in Brussels, 7–0.[2]: 768
 
- June
 
- 23 June – Strikes for shorter hours in Ghent textile mills.[2]: 768
 
- July
 
- 26 July – Law promulgated making Sunday an obligatory day of rest in trade and industry.[2]: 769
 - 27 July – Edward Joris arrested in Istanbul for his part in the Yıldız assassination attempt.[4]
 
- August
 
- 1 to 6 August – 1905 European Rowing Championships held on the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal in Ghent.[5]
 - 12 August – King opens new sports stadium in Antwerp.[2]: 768
 
- September
 
- 27 September – King ceremonially opens Arcade du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.[6]
 
- October
 
- 12 October – First stone of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussels laid.[7]
 
- November
 
- 5 November – Independent committee of enquiry into abuses in the Congo Free State, set up in response to the publication of the Casement Report the previous year, releases its findings.[2]: 769
 - 6 November – Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liège closes.[8]
 - 12 November – Formal opening of the Belgian-engineered Beijing–Hankou railway.[2]: 768
 - 25 November – Christian democrats obtain episcopal recognition as a Catholic organisation.[2]: 768
 - 30 November – Walloon Congress in Liège to promote the culture of French-speaking Belgium and to oppose the movement for greater use of Dutch in public life.[2]: 770
 
Publications
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Eastern little hornbill from Alphonse Dubois, Remarques sur l'ornithologie de l'État indépendant du Congo (Brussels, 1905)
- La Nation Belge, 1830-1905, conférences jubilaires faites à l’Exposition Universelle et internationale de Liège en 1905 (Liège, Ch. Desoer & Brussels, P. Weissenbruch)
 
- Periodicals
 
- La Belgique Artistique et Littéraire begins publication.[9]
 
- Scholarship
 
- Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 18.
 - Ernest Closson, Chansons populaires des provinces belges (Brussels, Mainz, London, Leipzig)
 - Alphonse Dubois, Remarques sur l'ornithologie de l'État indépendant du Congo
 - Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert, La Renaissance septentrionale et les premiers maitres des Flandres (Brussels, Librarie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire)
 - Godefroid Kurth, La Patrie Belge: 75è Anniversaire de l'Indépendance Nationale (Namur)
 - Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 5.
 - Joseph Van den Gheyn, La préhistoire en Belgique (1830-1905) (1905)[10]
 
- Literature
 
- Mark Twain, King Leopold's Soliloquy (Boston)
 - Émile Verhaeren, Les heures d'après-midi (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
 
Art and architecture

Constantin Meunier, The Docker (1905)
- Exhibitions
 
- 15 July to 2 November – Retrospective of Belgian art, 1830-1905, Brussels[11]
 
- Sculpture
 
- Constantin Meunier, The Docker
 
- Buildings
 
Births
- 15 January – Jean Van Buggenhout, cyclist (died 1974)
 - 10 March – René Bernier, composer (died 1984)
 - 28 March – Jenny Toitgans, athlete
 - 1 April – Gaston Eyskens, politician (died 1988)
 - 3 April – Georges Lemaire, cyclist (died 1933)
 - 10 April – Edgard Viseur, athlete
 - 4 May – Désiré Acket, painter (died 1987)
 - 21 June – Alfred De Taeye, politician (died 1958)
 - 6 July – Suzanne Spaak, resistance operative (died 1944)
 - 22 October – Maurice Geldhof, cyclist (died 1970)
 - 17 November – Astrid of Sweden, Queen of the Belgians (died 1935)
 - 27 November – Daniel Sternefeld, composer (died 1986)
 - 18 December – Jane Graverol, painter (died 1984)
 
Deaths
- 9 March – Paul Costermans (born 1860), deputy governor general of the Congo Free State, by his own hand
 - 4 April – Constantin Meunier (born 1831), painter and sculptor
 - 9 April – Léon d'Andrimont (born 1836), politician
 - 23 April – Théodore Nilis (born 1851), colonial official
 - 6 August – Léo Errera (born 1858), plant physiologist
 - 10 August – Georges Nagelmackers (born 1845), engineer and entrepreneur
 - 17 November – Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (born 1837), heir presumptive to the Belgian throne.
 - 12 December – Reimond Stijns (born 1850), writer
 
References
- ↑ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
 - ↑ Liège et l'Exposition universelle de 1905, edited by Christine Renardy (Brussels, 2005).
 - ↑ Gaïdz Minassian, "The Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Operation 'Nejuik'", in To Kill a Sultan: A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdülhamid II (1905), edited by Houssine Alloul, Edhem Eldem and Henk de Smaele (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), p. 53.
 - ↑ "Event Information". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 1 Feb 2019.
 - ↑ "Arcade et hémicycle, Parc du Cinquantenaire". Inventaire du patrimoine architectural (in French). Brussels Capital Region.
 - ↑ Jean van Cleven, Neogotisch project: H. Hartbasiliek van Koekelberg, Vlaanderen, 40 (1991), pp. 200-201.
 - ↑ Liège et l'Exposition universelle de 1905, edited by Christine Renardy (Brussels, 2005).
 - ↑ Vol. 1 at Internet Archive
 - ↑ "La préhistoire en Belgique (1830-1905)". 1905.
 - ↑ "Catalogue illustré de l'exposition rétrospective de l'art belge : 15 juillet-2 novembre, 1905". 1905.
 
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