1906 in Belgium

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See also:Other events of 1906
List of years in Belgium

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

Incumbents[]

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
  • , 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
Buildings

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)
  • 22 November – Rita Lejeune, medievalist (died 2009)

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. ^ Convention de Genève 6 juillet 1906. Forst. Anvers.
  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. ^ "Red rubber : The story of the rubber slave trade flourishing on the Congo in the year of grace 1906". 1906.
  13. ^ "Digital Viewer by KBR".
  14. ^ XIIme exposition de la Société royale des beaux-arts, Bruxelles 1906
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