1904 in Belgium
The following lists events that happened during 1904 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- Institut de Droit International awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- 17 April – Edmond de Gaiffier d'Hestroy replaces Maurice Joostens as Belgian ambassador to China
- 1 May – Belgium national football team plays its first international, against France
- 21 May – Belgium national football association a founder member of FIFA
- 29 May – 1904 Belgian general election
- 5 June – Provincial elections
- 29 October – Extradition treaty with Cuba concluded.
Art and architecture
;Buildings- Hôtel Hannon, an Art Nouveau villa in Saint-Gilles, designed by Jules Brunfaut for Édouard Hannon
Publications
;PeriodicalsAnnuaire de l'Institut de droit international begins publicationBulletin des Sociétés Chimiques Belges begins publicationHet Missiewerk begins publication;Reports and studies
- Casement Report
- E. D. Morel, King Leopold's Rule in Africa
- Jean Capart, Les débuts de l'art en Égypte
- G. Des Marez, L'organisation du travail a Bruxelles au XVe siècle
- Maurice De Wulf, Introduction à la philosophie néoscolastique.
- Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 4.
- First Michelin Guide for Belgium published
- Touring Club Belgium publishes road map of Belgium
- Henry Carton de Wiart, La cité ardente
- Émile Verhaeren, Les tendresses premières, illustrated by Théo van Rysselberghe
Births
- Louis Pevernagie, painter
- 6 January – Aimée Bologne-Lemaire, activist
- 25 January – Albert De Roocker, Olympic fencer
- 9 February – Karel Bossart, engineer
- 10 February – Henri Hébrans, boxer
- 13 February – Lucien Debleyser, boxer
- 21 February – Armand Preud'homme, composer
- 2 March – Jan Mertens, cyclist
- 30 March
- * Marguerite Acarin, dance artist
- * Edgar P. Jacobs, comic book creator
- 8 April – Piet Vermeylen, politician
- 15 April – René Lagrou, Nazi collaborator
- 9 May – Pol Demeuter, motorcycle racer
- 12 May – Adolphe Groscol, Olympic athlete
- 17 May – Fernand Dineur, cartoonist
- 30 June – Edith Kiel, film maker
- 8 July – Roger Motz, politician
- 10 July – Jules Herremans, Olympic athlete
- 16 July – Leo Joseph Suenens, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel
- 27 July – Omer Taverne, cyclist
- 17 August – Raymond Jeener, biologist
- 18 September – Paul Van den Broeck, sportsman
- 6 October – Victor Larock, politician
- 23 October – Maximilien de Furstenberg, prelate
- 19 November – Louise Janson-Scheidt, writer
- 12 December – Jacques Van Melkebeke, artist and writer
Deaths
- Robert Vinçotte, engineer
- 15 January – Eduard Lassen, composer
- 23 January – Gédéon Bordiau, architect
- 26 March – Ferdinand Pauwels, painter
- 21 April – Piatus of Mons, theologian
- 10 May – Henry Morton Stanley, explorer of Congo
- 9 June – Hendrik Frans Schaefels, painter
- 12 June – Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, entrepreneur
- 15 August – Frans de Potter, writer
- 19 November – August Snieders, journalist
- 13 December – Henri Van Cutsem, patron of the arts
- 24 December – Julien Dillens, sculptor