• Source: 1907 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1907 in the Kingdom of Belgium.




Incumbents


Monarch: Leopold II
Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer (to 2 May); Jules de Trooz (2 May–31 December); Frans Schollaert (from 31 December)




Events


Royal Belgian Hockey Association founded.
24 March – Football season 1906-1907 ends with Royale Union Saint-Gilloise at the top of the Belgian First Division.
14 April – Belgium national football team plays Netherlands national football team in Antwerp.
21 April – Belgium national football team plays France national football team in Brussels.
9 May – Belgium national football team plays Netherlands national football team in Haarlem.
16 May-14 June – Ostend 1907 chess tournament.
8 July – Scheldeprijs cycling race first organised by the Antwerp branch of the Belgian cycling federation
23 July – Port of Zeebrugge formally opened.
16 October – Copyright convention with Germany agreed in Brussels; ratified May 1908.
18 October – Belgium a signatory to the Hague Convention of 1907
26 October – Ratification of the German-Belgian railway convention of 1903.




Publications


Periodicals
La Belgique Artistique et Littéraire, vols. 6 (January–March), 7 (April–June), 8 (July–September), 9 (October–December).
Books
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Le rideau cramoisi, illustrated by Armand Rassenfosse (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Félix Magnette, Les émigrés français aux Pays-Bas, 1789-1794 (Brussels, Hayez)
Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, Henri Lamertin)
Stijn Streuvels, De vlaschaard
Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 7.




Art and architecture



Henry De Groux, Portrait of James Ensor
Léon Spilliaert, Self-Portrait
Louis Tytgadt, After Mass in the Church of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Ter Hoye Beguinage in Ghent




Births


3 February – Charles Verlinden, historian (died 1996)
17 March – Jean Van Houtte, prime minister (died 1991)
19 March – Charles-Emmanuel Janssen, politician (died 1985)
28 April – Raymond Braine, footballer (died 1978)
22 May – Hergé, comics author (died 1983)
24 May – Jules François, ophthalmologist (died 1984)
11 June – Raoul Henkart, fencer (died 1955)
2 July – Jean-Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers, politician (died 1991)
11 December – Pol Duwez, scientist (died 1984)




Deaths


8 January – Theodoor Verstraete (born 1850), painter
21 January – Louis Willems (born 1822), immunologist
7 February – Jean-Charles Jacobs (born 1821), entomologist
19 June – Léon Herbo (born 1850), painter
8 November – Marie Sasse (born 1834), soprano
5 December – Charles Leickert (born 1816), painter
31 December – Jules de Trooz (born 1857), prime minister




References

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• Kerajaan konstitusional
• Konvensi Jenewa
• Perang Dunia I
• Gordon Chesney Wilson
• Petualangan Tintin
• Jean de la Hoese
• Léon Printemps
• Front Barat (Perang Dunia I)
• Lovis Corinth
• Schelde
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• Panic of 1907
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