• Source: 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)
16 September – Joseph Donceel, Jesuit (died 1994)
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




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Konvensi Jenewa
• Perang Dunia I
• Rum Millet
• William Henry Flower
• Putri Léa dari Belgia
• Keuskupan Agung Mechelen-Brussel
• Negara Bebas Kongo
• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
• Erwetegem
• Yunus
• 1906 in Belgium
• 1906
• 1906 Belgian general election
• Belgium at the 1906 Intercalated Games
• 1906–07 Belgian First Division
• Murder of Jeanne Van Calck
• 1906–07 in Belgian football
• Belgium national football team
• Marie-José of Belgium
• Lierse S.K. (1906)