1906 in Belgium

none August 2020 1906 The following lists events that happened during 1906 in the Kingdom of Belgium. Incumbents Monarch: Leopold IILeopold II king of Belgium https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leopold-II-king-of-Belgium Encyclopedia Britannica 28 March 2019 en Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer Events thumb|Belgium 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."Meurtre d'un diplomate à Bruxelles", Journal de Bruxelles, 26 February 1906. 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.Augustus Oakes and R.B. Mowat, The Great European Treaties of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1918), pp. 152–157. On Google Books. 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.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 Convention de Genève 6 juillet 1906 Forst. Anvers 15 to 19 August – Seventeenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Tournai.C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65.http://www.pwt.wroc.pl/kongres/fr/historia/dzieje.htm#wykaz Inventaire des Congrès Eucharistiques Internationaux pwt.wroc.pl Papieski Wydział Teologiczny we Wrocławiu 5 December 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202729/http://www.pwt.wroc.pl/kongres/fr/historia/dzieje.htm#wykaz 3 March 2016 dead 28 October – Union Minière du Haut Katanga incorporated Publications thumb|E. D. Morel, Red Rubber (1906), title page Periodicals La Belgique Artistique et Littéraire, vols. 2 (January–March),At Internet Archive 3 (April–June),At Internet Archive 4 (July–September),At Internet Archive 5 (October–December).At Internet Archive 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 (Medieval Towns Series; London, J.M. Dent)At Internet Archive. Karl Hanquet (ed.), La Chronique de Saint-Hubert dite Cantatorium (Brussels, Hayez, Imprimeur de L'Academie) E. D. Morel, Red Rubber (New York)https://archive.org/details/redrubberstoryof00more_0 Red rubber : The story of the rubber slave trade flourishing on the Congo in the year of grace 1906 1906 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.https://uurl.kbr.be/1427499 Digital Viewer by KBR Emile Vandervelde, Le Socialisme et l'agriculture (1906) Émile Verhaeren, Les heures d'après-midi (Brussels, Edmond Deman) Art and architecture thumb|Théo van Rysselberghe, The Scarlet Ribbon (1906) 12th Brussels Salon of the Société Royale des Beaux-artsXIIme exposition de la Société royale des beaux-arts, Bruxelles 1906 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) 29 May – Max Cosyns, explorer (died 1998) 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) 16 September – Joseph Donceel, Jesuit (died 1994) 25 September – Madeleine Bourdouxhe, author (died 1996) 22 November – Rita Lejeune, medievalist (died 2009) Deaths thumb|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 1906 Category:1900s in Belgium Belgium Belgium Category:Years of the 20th century in Belgium