• Source: 1917 in Belgium

      • Events in the year 1917 in Belgium.


      Incumbents


      Monarch: Albert I
      Prime Minister: Charles de Broqueville


      Events


      1 May – Emilius Seghers consecrated as bishop of Ghent
      7–14 June – Battle of Messines (1917)
      31 July – 10 November – Battle of Passchendaele (also called Third Battle of Ypres)
      31 July – 2 August – Battle of Pilckem Ridge
      16–18 August – Battle of Langemarck (1917)
      20–26 September – Battle of the Menin Road Ridge
      26 September – 3 October – Battle of Polygon Wood
      4 October – Battle of Broodseinde
      9 October – Battle of Poelcappelle
      12 October – First Battle of Passchendaele
      26 October – 10 November – Second Battle of Passchendaele


      Publications


      Émile Cammaerts, Through the Iron Bars (Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium), with illustrations by Louis Raemaekers (London and New York, John Lane).
      Hugh Gibson, A Diplomatic Diary (London, New York and Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, 1917).
      Arnold J. Toynbee, The Belgian Deportations (London, T. Fisher Unwin)
      Leon van der Essen, The Invasion & the War in Belgium from Liège to the Yser, with a sketch of the diplomatic negotiations preceding the conflict (London, T.F. Unwin).


      Births


      30 January – Jan Verroken, politician (died 2020)
      1 April – Michel Donnet, military pilot (died 2013)
      16 May – Raymond Laurent, herpetologist (died 2005)
      21 May – Jules-François Crahay, fashion designer (died 1988)
      15 June – Jean Alexandre, cyclist
      28 June – Albert de Cleyn, footballer (died 1990)
      25 July – Charles Brahm, Olympic canoeist (died 2003)
      7 August – Catherine Stevens, athlete
      23 August – André Waterkeyn, engineer (died 2005)
      2 October – Christian de Duve, biochemist (died 2013)
      22 October – Eugene Deckers, actor (died 1977)


      Deaths


      5 January – Félix Wielemans (born 1863), Army Chief of Staff
      30 January – Mutien-Marie Wiaux (born 1841), saint
      2 March – Jules Van Dievoet (born 1844), lawyer
      6 March – Jules Vandenpeereboom (born 1843), politician
      25–26 March – Van Raemdonck Brothers, soldiers
      13 May – Jules Schmalzigaug (born 1882/3), painter
      28 May – Raoul Warocqué (born 1870), industrialist
      7 June – Willie Redmond (born 1861), Irish nationalist
      29 June – Frans Schollaert (born 1851), politician
      4 July – Frank Shanley (born 1889), English footballer
      12 July – Donald Cunnell (born 1893), British flying ace
      31 July – Hedd Wyn (born 1887), poet
      10 August – James Brannick (born 1889), footballer
      11 August – Harold Ackroyd (born 1877), physician
      16 August – Willie Doyle (born 1873), Irish Jesuit
      21 August – Nellie Spindler (born 1891), nurse
      5 September – Arthur Verhaegen (born 1847), architect and politician
      19 September – Émile de Borchgrave (born 1837), historian and diplomat
      21 September – Frederick Birks (born 1894), Australian soldier
      28 September
      Patrick Bugden (born 1897), Australian soldier
      Kurt Wissemann (born 1893), German flying ace
      9 November – Paul Wittouck (born 1851), industrialist


      References

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