• Source: 1908 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1908 in the Kingdom of Belgium.




Incumbents


Monarch: Leopold II
Prime Minister: Frans Schollaert




Events



9 January – Frans Schollaert formally takes office as prime minister, after the sudden death of Jules de Trooz at the end of the previous year.
19 April – Confédération syndicale belge organization is founded.
24 May – Partial legislative elections
25 May – Parliament ratifies the 1907 copyright convention with Germany.
14 June – Provincial elections
10 July – Paul Van Asbroeck wins a gold medal at the 1908 Olympic Games
30 September – Premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird at the Moscow Art Theatre
18 October – Belgian Parliament passes the Colonial Charter on the Belgian annexation of the Congo Free State.
30 October – Cabinet reshuffle with Jules Renkin becoming first Minister for Colonies
15 November – Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo




Publications


Émile de Borchgrave, Souvenirs diplomatiques de quarante ans (Brussels)
Fernand Crommelynck, Le sculpteur de masques (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Stijn Streuvels, Tieghem: Het Vlaamsche lustoord (Ghent, Vercauteren)
Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 8.
Emile Verhaeren, James Ensor (Brussels, G. Van Oest)
Periodicals
L'Expansion belge begins publication.




Art and architecture



Buildings
Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk, Ostend (begun 1899)
Films
Durch Brüssel in 10 Minuten (9-minute documentary).




Births


2 January – André Verbeke, architect (died 1978)
23 January – Stanislas-André Steeman, writer (died 1970)
14 March – Joseph André, priest (died 1973)
14 May – Jules Lismonde, artist (died 2001)
20 September – Simon Dewinter, boxer (died 1972)
4 October – Celeste van Exem, missionary (died 1993)
16 November – Emmanuelle Cinquin, religious sister (died 2008)
24 November – Hubert Ansiaux, banker (died 1987)
28 November – Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist (died 2009)




Deaths


4 February – Albert Lancaster (born 1849), meteorologist
6 February – Jan Portielje (born 1829), painter
22 February – Édouard van den Corput (born 1821), physician
10 May – Eugène Lafont (born 1837), missionary
5 June – Jef Lambeaux (born 1852), sculptor
21 June – Luís Cruls (born 1848), astronomer
19 June – Louis van Waefelghem (born 1840), viola d'amore player
4 August – Piet Verhaert (born 1852), painter
24 December – François-Auguste Gevaert (born 1828), musicologist




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Kongo Belgia
• Albert Mockel
• Perang Dunia I
• Negara Bebas Kongo
• Republik Demokratik Kongo
• Jean de la Hoese
• Franz Ferdinand dari Austria
• Nadia Boulanger
• Fan Noli
• Liga Utama Inggris
• 1908 in Belgium
• Colonial Charter on the Belgian annexation of the Congo Free State
• Belgium
• 1908 Belgian general election
• 1908
• Belgian colonial empire
• 1908 in the Belgian Congo
• Belgium at the 1908 Summer Olympics
• Bayard 1908
• Belgian Congo