1903 in Belgium

Events in the year 1903 in Belgium.

Incumbents Monarch: Leopold II Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer

Events 30 July-6 August – 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in Brussels. 15 August – German-Belgian railway convention signed.Marie-Thérèse Bitsch, La Belgique entre la France et l'Allemagne, 1905-1914 (Paris, 1994), p. 341.

Publications Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 17. Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 2 Max Rooses, Rubens' leven en werken Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 3. Emile Vandervelde, L'Exode rural et le retour aux champs

Art and architecture

Théo van Rysselberghe, The Reading

Births 8 June – Marguerite Yourcenar, French novelist (died 1987) 14 July – Henricus Cockuyt, Olympic sprinter (died 1993) 19 August - Gérard Devos, footballer (died 1972)

Deaths 19 June – Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne (born 1872) 21 July – Henri Alexis Brialmont (born 1821), military architect

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