1906 in Belgium
# 1906 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1906 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Leopold II
* Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer

## Events

* 7 February – Murder of Jeanne Van Calck in Brussels.
* 24 February – Chilean diplomat Ernesto Balmaceda Bello murdered in Brussels.
* 10 April – Chief of the General Staff reports to Minister of War on confidential conversations held earlier in the year with the British military attaché regarding the landing of a British expeditionary force in the event of a German invasion.
* Belgian Olympic Committee founded, with Édouard de Laveleye as first president.
* 22 April to 2 May – 16 Belgian athletes participate in the Intercalated Games in Athens, winning 6 medals.
* 29 April – Belgium national football team play against Netherlands national football team at Antwerp, winning 5–0. Robert De Veen scored a hat-trick in the second half.
* 27 May – Partial legislative election
* 6 July – Belgium a signatory to the Geneva Convention of 1906.
* 15 to 19 August – Seventeenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Tournai.
* 28 October – Union Minière du Haut Katanga incorporated

## Publications

### Periodicals

* La Belgique Artistique et Littéraire, vols. 2 (January–March), 3 (April–June), 4 (July–September), 5 (October–December).

### Books

* Félicien Cattier, Étude sur la situation de l'État indépendant du Congo
* Ernest Gilliat-Smith, The Story of Brussels, illustrated by Katharine Kimball and Guy Gilliat-Smith (London, J.M. Dent)
* Karl Hanquet (ed.), La Chronique de Saint-Hubert dite Cantatorium (Brussels, Hayez, Imprimeur de L'Academie)
* E. D. Morel, Red Rubber (New York)
* Max Rooses, Jordaens' leven en werken
* Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique . Tome sixième: Histoire des ordres religieux et des églises particulières (Brussels, Henri Lamertin), vol. 6 of the catalogue of manuscripts of the Royal Library of Belgium.
* Emile Vandervelde, Le Socialisme et l'agriculture (1906)
* Émile Verhaeren, Les heures d'après-midi (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

## Art and architecture

* 12th Brussels Salon of the Société Royale des Beaux-arts

### Paintings

* Théo van Rysselberghe, The Scarlet Ribbon

### Buildings

* Royal Galleries of Ostend completed

## Births

* 5 January – Mark Severin, graphic designer (died 1987)
* 25 January – Eddy Blondeel, SAS commander (died 2000)
* 14 February – Felix Meskens, athlete (died 1973)
* 18 February – Placide Tempels, missionary (died 1977)
* 22 March – Marcel Hastir, artist (died 2011)
* 8 June – Charles Janssens, actor (died 1986)
* 15 June – Léon Degrelle, fascist (died 1994)
* 3 July – Fernand Dehousse, politician (died 1976)
* 29 July – Alice Roberts, actress (died 1985)
* 4 August – Marie José of Belgium, Queen of Italy (died 2001)
* 5 August – Francis Walder, writer and soldier (died 1997)
* 8 August – André Demedts, educator (died 1992)
* 15 September – Charles of Limburg Stirum, courtier (died 1989)
* 25 September – Madeleine Bourdouxhe, author (died 1996)
* 22 November – Rita Lejeune, medievalist (died 2009)

## Deaths

* 25 January – Pierre-Lambert Goossens (born 1827), Archbishop of Mechelen
* 25 February – Jean Baptiste Abbeloos (born 1836), orientalist
* April – Victor Warot (born 1834), opera singer
* May – Jan-Baptist Huysmans (born 1826), painter
* 24 April – Georges Montefiore-Levi (born 1832), industrialist
* 24 August – Alfred Stevens (born 1823), painter
* 23 September – Jan Van Rijswijck (born 1853), politician
* 26 September – Paul Splingaerd (born 1842), mandarin
* 27 September – Felix Leopold Oswald (born 1845), science populariser
* 9 November – Léon Vanderkindere (born 1842), historian
* 30 December – Eugène Goossens, père (born 1845), conductor
* 31 December – Hippolyte Lippens (born 1847), industrialist
