Английская Википедия:1916 in Belgium

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Шаблон:Year in Belgium Events in the year 1916 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Albert I
• Prime Minister: Charles de Broqueville

Events

• 2–14 June – Battle of Mont Sorrel
• 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.

Publications

• Désiré-Joseph Mercier, A Signal of Distress from the Belgian Bishops to Public Opinion (London, Eyre and Spottiswood)
• 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
• 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