Events from the year 1914 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch - Albert I Prime Minister: Charles de Broqueville
Events May 24 May – Belgian general election, 1914
July 25 July – General mobilisation for the eventuality of war.
August 4 August – German invasion with attendant atrocities: beginning of Belgian involvement in World War I. 5 to 16 August – Battle of Liège. 12 August – Battle of Haelen (1914) 20 to 25 August – Siege of Namur (1914) 21 August – Battle of Charleroi 23 August – Massacre at Dinant. 25 August – Burning of Leuven University Library.
September 28 September – Siege of Antwerp begins
October 16 to 31 October – Battle of the Yser 19 October – First Battle of Ypres begins
November German occupation of Belgium begins to take shape 22 November – First Battle of Ypres ends
Publications Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert, The Brussels Gallery of Old Masters (Brussels, G. van Oest) Paul Hamelius, The Siege of Liège: A Personal Narrative (London, T. Werner Laurie)
Births 17 January – Théo Lefèvre, Prime Minister 1961-1965 (died 1973) 23 January – Antonina Grégoire, communist partisan (died 1952) 20 March – Victor Matthys, politician and Nazi collaborator (died 1947)Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1990, p. 330. 12 April – Jan van Cauwelaert, bishop (died 2016) 3 June – Karel Kaers, cyclist (died 1972) 17 June Adriaan Pattin, historian of medieval philosophy (died 2005) John Van Alphen, footballer (died 1961)
Deaths January 16 - Alfred de Vinck de Winnezeele, Catholic politician April 21 - Abel de Kerchove d'Exaerde, politician July 6 - Albert de Beauffort, politician August 4 - Antoine Fonck, first Belgian soldier killed in World War I August 19 - Alphonse Six, footballer, 24 (killed in action) November 17 - Werner de Mérode, Catholic politician (b.1855) December 9 - Arthur Van Gehuchten, biologist December 19 - Édouard Brunard, Liberal politician (b.1843) See also Western Front (World War I) World War I
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