1906 in Belgium

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

← 1905 1904 1903 1906 in Belgium → 1907 1908 1909
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1906 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II[1]
• Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer

Events

Belgian national football team before an international match on 29 April 1906

• 7 February – Murder of Jeanne Van Calck in Brussels.
• 24 February – Chilean diplomat Ernesto Balmaceda Bello murdered in Brussels.[2]
• 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.[3]
• 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 – Belgian national football team play against Dutch 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.[4]
• 15 to 19 August – Seventeenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Tournai.[5][6]
• 28 October – Union Minière du Haut Katanga incorporated

Publications

E. D. Morel, Red Rubber (1906), title page

Periodicals

• La Belgique Artistique et Littéraire, vols. 2 (January–March),[7] 3 (April–June),[8] 4 (July–September),[9] 5 (October–December).[10]

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)[11]
• Karl Hanquet (ed.), La Chronique de Saint-Hubert dite Cantatorium (Brussels, Hayez, Imprimeur de L'Academie)
• E. D. Morel, Red Rubber (New York)[12]
• 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.[13]
• Emile Vandervelde, Le Socialisme et l'agriculture (1906)
• Émile Verhaeren, Les heures d'après-midi (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

Art and architecture

Théo van Rysselberghe, The Scarlet Ribbon (1906)

• 12th Brussels Salon of the Société Royale des Beaux-arts[14]

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)
• 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)

Deaths

A photograph of Alfred Stevens (1823–1906) by Erwin Hanfstaengl, from Édouard Manet's personal album

• 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

1. "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. "Meurtre d'un diplomate à Bruxelles", Journal de Bruxelles, 26 February 1906.
3. Augustus Oakes and R.B. Mowat, The Great European Treaties of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1918), pp. 152–157. On Google Books.
4. https://opac.kbr.be/BELGICA/doc/SYRACUSE/16321206/convention-de-geneve-6-juillet-1906-pour-l-amelioration-du-sort-des-blesses-et-malades-dans-les-arme
5. C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65.
6. "Inventaire des Congrès Eucharistiques Internationaux". pwt.wroc.pl. Papieski Wydział Teologiczny we Wrocławiu. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
7. At Internet Archive
8. At Internet Archive
9. At Internet Archive
10. At Internet Archive
11. At Internet Archive.
12. https://archive.org/details/redrubberstoryof00more_0
13. https://uurl.kbr.be/1427499
14. XIIme exposition de la Société royale des beaux-arts, Bruxelles 1906