Events in the year 1919 in

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

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Albert I Albert I may refer to: People Born before 1300 * Albert I, Count of Vermandois (917–987) *Albert I, Count of Namur () *Albert I of Moha *Albert I of Brandenburg (), first margrave of Brandenburg *Albert I, Margrave of Meissen (1158–1195) *Alber ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

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Léon Delacroix Léon Frédéric Gustave Delacroix (27 December 1867 – 15 October 1929) was a Belgian statesman. Before entering politics, he was a renowned lawyer, and served as president of the Belgian Court of Cassation from 1917 to 1918. In the context of ...

Events

* 16 March — Société Nationale de Crédit à l'Industrie founded * 16 November – 1919 Belgian general election

Publications

* ''American Red Cross Work for Belgium: Summary of activities of Commission for Belgium, September, 1917 – December, 1918'' (Brussels). * Albert Joseph Carnoy, ''The Past and the Future of Belgium'' (New York, Knickerbocker Press). * Léon De Paeuw, ''La Réforme de l'Enseignement populaire en Belgique'' (Paris, Armand Colin). *

Cardinal Mercier Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to: Animals * Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds **'' Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae **''Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, t ...

, ''A Shepherd among Wolves: War-Time Letters of Cardinal Mercier'', edited by Arthur Boutwood (London, The Faith Press). * J.H. Twells, Jr., ''In the Prison City. Brussels, 1914–1918: A Personal Narrative'' (London, A. Melrose).In the Prison City
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Art and architecture

Business

Standaard Uitgeverij Standaard Uitgeverij is a Belgian publisher, and the leading publisher in the Dutch language market of Flanders. History In 1919, the Standaard group was created, mainly consisting of a chain of bookshops (Standaard Boekhandel), a newspaper (''De ...

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Births

* 23 November – Francine Holley, painter (died 2020)

Deaths

References

{{Year in Europe, 1919 1910s in Belgium

Years of the 20th century in Belgium