title: 1906 in Belgium
text: # 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
  