House, City, World, Nation, Globe
From Mondothèque
| DATE | EVENT | SCALE |
|---|---|---|
| 1934 | As the Mundaneum is closed by governmental decision, the archives are moved Rue Fetis 44, Brussels in the House of Paul Otlet | HOUSE |
| 1960's | "Les amis du palais mondial" organize different events to the memory of Paul Otlet | HOUSE |
| 1914 | "The palais mondial" sets up at Jubelpark, 11 Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels. Installation will be a little delayed due to the upcoming WWI. | CITY |
| 1920 | Opening of the "Palais Mondial" | CITY |
| 1924 | "Foire du caoutchouc" at the Palais Mondial, some collections will be moved to leave space for the event. | CITY |
| 1941 | Some files from the Mundaneum collections that concerned international associations, are transferred to Germany because they are assumed to have propaganda value. | WORLD |
| 1934 | Publication of the book "Traité de documentation" | PUBLICATION |
| 1891 | Henri Lafontaine publishes an essay "Pour une bibliographie de la paix" | PUBLICATION |
| 1895 2-4 septembre | First Conférence of Bibliographie that decides the creation of "l'Institut International de Bibliographie" (IIB) | CITY |
| 1893 | Otlet and Lafontaine start together "l'Office International de Bibliologie Sociologique (OIBS)" | CITY |
| 1910 May | Official Creation of IUA, "International union of associations" In 1914, it federates 230 organizations, a little more than half the existing ones. L'IUA promotes internationalist aspirations and desire for peace that will lead in 1920 to the creation of "Société des Nations". | CITY |
| 1907 June | Otlet and Lafontaine organize a Central Office for International Associations that will become the "International Union of Associations" (IUA) at the first Congres mondial des associations internationales in Brussels in May 1910 | WORLD |
| 1910 25-27 August | Le "Congrès International de Bibliographie et de Documentation" deals both with issues of international cooperation between non governmental organizations and the structure of universal documentation. | WORLD |
| 1911 | More than 600 people/institutions are listed as IIB members or refering to heir methods specifically UDC.. | WORLD |
| 1924 | Creation, within l'IIB, of the Central Classification Commission focusing on the development of Universal Decimal Classification | WORLD |
| 1931 | IIB becomes l'International Institut of documentation (IID) and in 1938 is named International Fédération of documentation (IDF) | WORLD |
| 1908 10-11 juillet | "Congrès bibliographique international" (Bruxelles) | CITY |
| 1900 | "Congrès bibliographique international" (Paris) | WORLD |
| 1913 | Henri Lafontaine is awarded the Nobel Price for Peace | WORLD |
| 1916 | Lafontaine publishes "The great solution: magnissima charta" | PUBLICATION |
| 1882 | Triple Alliance renewed in 1902 | WORLD |
| 1904 | "Entente cordiale" between France and England over the colonies | WORLD |
| 1890's | first colonial wars (fachoda, boers...) | WORLD |
| 1833 | Henri Lafontaine creates la "Société Belge de l'arbitrage et de la paix" | COUNTRY |
| 1944 | Death of Paul Otlet. he is buried in Etterbeek cemetery | COUNTRY |
| 1993 | Elio Di Rupo organises the transportation of Otlet archives to 76 rue de Nimy, à Mons | COUNTRY |
| 1890 | Henri Lafontaine meets Paul Otlet | PERSONAL |
| 1894 | Henri Lafontaine is elected senator from Hainaut and later on senator from Liège-Brabant | COUNTRY |
| 1907 | Henri Lafontaine is elected president of "bureau international de la paix" that he previously contributed to organize | PERSONAL |
| 1891 | Entente franco-russe: preliminairy to the "triple entente" that will be signed in 1907 | WORLD |
| 1870 | Franco-Prussian war | WORLD |
| 1905 | First Morroccan Crisis | WORLD |
| 1874 | Creation of General Postal Union, by ONU [[1]] aiming at federating international postal distribution | NORMS |
| 1875 | General Conference on Weights and Measures | NORMS |
| 1865 | International Union of telegraph-future International telecomunication union (UTI) | NORMS |
| 1947 | INTERNATIONAL Telecomunication Union(UTI) is attached to UN | NORMS |
Maybe this timeline would need some explanation......
The timeline in Brussels is an attempt to situate some of the events related to the life death and revival of Mondotheque in a broader context with regards both to local events and to broader international situation.
This timeline attempts to situate some events in several geographic locations at different scales, and hopefuly provoke cqrrelations in time and space, that could help us formulate questions about the ways all those local events take place and reformulate themselves in a global context.
The large archive ofthe Mundaneum was though by Paul Otlet with support of Henry Lafontaine motivated by a large ideal of peace at a time when occidental colonialism was at its high and the first tensions where only starting to manifest themselves, while at the same time war was at the door of modern european societies. It is in between war that the communication systems associated to Mundaneum were conceived. Some of them were thoughtas prospective possibilities, such as Mondotheque, but others were already implemented like international postal agreements that acted as networks of information-sharing to the general benefit of civil society.
What links here
| Person | Paul Otlet +, Henri Lafontaine + and Elio Di Rupo + |
| Place | Rue Fetis 44, Brussels +, Parc du Cinquantenaire 11, Brussels +, Cimetière d'Ixelles + and 76 Rue de Nimy, Mons + |
| Date "Date" is a type and predefined property provided by Semantic MediaWiki to represent date values. | 1934 +, 1960 +, 1914 +, 1920 +, 1924 +, 1941 +, 1891 +, 1895 +, 1893 +, 1910 +, 1907 +, 1911 +, 1931 +, 1938 +, 1908 +, 1900 +, 1913 +, 1916 +, 1882 +, 1902 +, 1904 +, 1890 +, 1833 +, 1944 +, 1993 +, 1894 +, 1870 +, 1905 +, 1874 +, 1875 +, 1865 + and 1947 + |