1906 in Belgium
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The following lists events that happened during 1906 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- 7 February â Murder of Jeanne Van Calck in Brussels.
- 24 February â Chilean diplomat Ernesto Balmaceda Bello murdered in Brussels.[2]
- 10 April â 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 Ãdouard de Laveleye as first president.
- 22 April to 2 May â 16 Belgian athletes participate in the Intercalated Games in Athens, winning 6 medals.
- 29 April â Belgium national football team play against Netherlands national football team at Antwerp, winning 5â0. Robert De Veen scored a hat-trick in the second half.
- 27 May â Partial legislative election
- 6 July â Belgium a signatory to the Geneva Convention of 1906.[4]
- 15 to 19 August â Seventeenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Tournai.[5][6]
- 28 October â Union Minière du Haut Katanga incorporated
Publications
- Periodicals
- La Belgique Artistique et Littéraire, vols. 2 (JanuaryâMarch),[7] 3 (AprilâJune),[8] 4 (JulyâSeptember),[9] 5 (OctoberâDecember).[10]
- Books
- Félicien Cattier, Ãtude sur la situation de l'Ãtat 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)
- Ãmile Verhaeren, Les heures d'après-midi (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Art and architecture
- 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 â Mark Severin, graphic designer (died 1987)
- 25 January â Eddy Blondeel, SAS commander (died 2000)
- 14 February â Felix Meskens, athlete (died 1973)
- 18 February â Placide Tempels, missionary (died 1977)
- 22 March â Marcel Hastir, artist (died 2011)
- 8 June â Charles Janssens, actor (died 1986)
- 15 June â Léon Degrelle, fascist (died 1994)
- 3 July â Fernand Dehousse, politician (died 1976)
- 29 July â Alice Roberts, actress (died 1985)
- 4 August â Marie José of Belgium, Queen of Italy (died 2001)
- 5 August â Francis Walder, writer and soldier (died 1997)
- 8 August â André Demedts, educator (died 1992)
- 15 September â Charles of Limburg Stirum, courtier (died 1989)
- 16 September â Joseph Donceel, Jesuit (died 1994)
- 25 September â Madeleine Bourdouxhe, author (died 1996)
- 22 November â Rita Lejeune, medievalist (died 2009)
Deaths
- 25 January â Pierre-Lambert Goossens (born 1827), Archbishop of Mechelen
- 25 February â Jean Baptiste Abbeloos (born 1836), orientalist
- April â Victor Warot (born 1834), opera singer
- May â Jan-Baptist Huysmans (born 1826), painter
- 24 April â Georges Montefiore-Levi (born 1832), industrialist
- 24 August â Alfred Stevens (born 1823), painter
- 23 September â Jan Van Rijswijck (born 1853), politician
- 26 September â Paul Splingaerd (born 1842), mandarin
- 27 September â Felix Leopold Oswald (born 1845), science populariser
- 9 November â Léon Vanderkindere (born 1842), historian
- 30 December â Eugène Goossens, père (born 1845), conductor
- 31 December â Hippolyte Lippens (born 1847), industrialist
