Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liège was a world's fair held in Liège

Liège

Liège is a major city and municipality of Belgium located in the province of Liège, of which it is the economic capital, in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium....

 in 1905 from April 27 to November 6 just 8 years after a Belgian exposition held in Brussels

Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

. Intended to show Liege's industrial importance it also marked 75 years of Belgian independence

Belgian Revolution

The Belgian Revolution was the conflict which led to the secession of the Southern provinces from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and established an independent Kingdom of Belgium....

 and 40 years of Leopard II

Leopold II of Belgium

Leopold II was the second king of the Belgians. Born in Brussels the second son of Leopold I and Louise-Marie of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the throne on 17 December 1865 and remained king until his death.Leopold is chiefly remembered as the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free...

's reign.

It hosted 39 nations (including France, Germany, England, Japan, Turkey, Persia, China, Russia and the United States), received 7 million visitors, covered 52 acres and made 75,117 Belgian Franc

Belgian franc

The franc was the currency of Belgium until 2002 when the euro was introduced into circulation. It was subdivided into centimes , 100 centiem or Centime .-History:...

s.

Legacy

The Palais de Beaux Arts building was left to the city, and is now the Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporaine.

Music

• Cantate pour l'inauguration de l'Exposition universelle de Liège, 1905 by Jean-Théodore Radoux
  Jean-Théodore Radoux
  Jean Théodore Radoux was a Belgian composer and bassoonist. In 1859 he won the Belgian Prix de Rome for his cantata Le Juif errant which he had composed earlier that year...
  
   with words by Jules Sauvenière was written for the expo.

See also

• Exposition of 1930 (Liège)
  Exposition of 1930 (Liège)
  The Exposition of 1930 was an international exposition that took place in Liège, Belgium between May 3 and November 3, 1930. The fair marked the centenary of the establishment of the Belgian kingdom in 1830...
  
  
• Colonial exhibition
  Colonial exhibition
  A colonial exhibition was a type of international exhibition intended to boost trade and bolster popular support for the various colonial empires during the New Imperialism period, which started in the 1880s with the scramble for Africa....
  
  
• The Walloon Movement