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

;April

17 April – Edmond de Gaiffier d'Hestroy replaces Maurice Joostens as Belgian ambassador to China

;May

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

;June

5 June – Provincial elections

;October

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

;Scholarship

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.

;Guides

First Michelin Guide for Belgium published
Touring Club Belgium publishes road map of Belgium

;Literary writing

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