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Events in the year 1918 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Albert I^[1]
• Prime Minister: Charles de Broqueville (to 1 June); Gérard Cooreman (1 June–21 November); Leon Delacroix (from 21 November)

Events

• 7 to 29 April – Fourth Battle of Ypres
• 23 April – Zeebrugge Raid
• 28 September to 2 October – Fifth Battle of Ypres
• 14 to 19 October – Battle of Courtrai
• 18 October – Yser Medal struck
• 19 October – Charge of Burkel
• 20 October to 11 November – Battle of the Lys and the Escaut
• 5 to 7 November – Passage of the Grande Honnelle
• 11 November – Armistice of 11 November 1918

Publications

Newspapers

• Vers l'Avenir begins publication (18 November)
• De Standaard begins publication (4 December)

Books

• A War Nurse's Diary: Sketches from a Belgian Field Hospital (New York, Macmillan)^[2]
• Henri Grégoire (historian), Les Perles de la poésie slave: Lermontov, Pouchkine, Mickiewicz (Liège, Bénard)^[3]
• Emile Vandervelde, Three Aspects of The Russian Revolution, translated by Jean A. H. Findlay (London, George Allen and Unwin)^[4]

Births

• 26 January – Albert Sercu, cyclist (died 1978)
• 17 February – Frans Cools cyclist (died 1999)
• 24 February – Louisa Colpeyn, actress (died 2015)
• 3 March – Fernand Buyle, footballer (died 1992)
• 23 April – André Maelbrancke, cyclist (died 1986)
• 2 May – Georges Debunne, trade unionist (died 2008)
• 5 May – Karel Thijs, cyclist (died 1990)
• 17 May – Eugénie De Keyser, art historian (died 2012)
• 26 May – Prosper Depredomme, cyclist (died 1987)
• 28 June – Anton van Wilderode, poet (died 1998)
• 8 September – Robert Senelle, academic (died 2013)
• 19 September – Hubert Chantrenne, scientist (died 2007)
• 24 September – Joseph Trimpont, wrestler
• 1 October – Jan Cools, Olympic wrestler
• 4 October – Raymond Lombard, Olympic equestrian (died 2016)
• 6 October – André Pilette, racing driver (died 1993)
• 28 November – Gustaaf Eeckeman, footballer (died 1975)

Deaths

• 12 January – Émile Storms (born 1846), colonial official
• 19 February – Edmond Deman (born 1857), publisher
• 21 February – Théophile de Lantsheere (born 1833), politician
• 14 March – Gennaro Rubino (born 1859), anarchist
• 31 August – Joe English (born 1882), artist
• 17 September – Henry Moeller (born 1852), priest
• 28 December – Géo Bernier (born 1862), painter

References