1906 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II
• Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer

Events

• 7 February – Murder of Jeanne Van Calck in Brussels.
• 24 February – Chilean diplomat Ernesto Balmaceda Bello murdered in Brussels.
• 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.
• 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.
• 15 to 19 August – Seventeenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Tournai.
• 28 October – Union Minière du Haut Katanga incorporated

Publications

• 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
• Karl Hanquet, La Chronique de Saint-Hubert dite Cantatorium
• E. D. Morel, Red Rubber
• 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, vol. 6 of the catalogue of manuscripts of the Royal Library of Belgium.
• Emile Vandervelde, Le Socialisme et l'agriculture
• Émile Verhaeren, ''Les heures d'après-midi''

Art and architecture

• 12th Brussels Salon of the Société Royale des Beaux-arts

• Théo van Rysselberghe, The Scarlet Ribbon

• Royal Galleries of Ostend completed

Births

• 5 January – Mark Severin, graphic designer
• 25 January – Eddy Blondeel, SAS commander
• 14 February – Felix Meskens, athlete
• 18 February – Placide Tempels, missionary
• 22 March – Marcel Hastir, artist
• 8 June – Charles Janssens, actor
• 15 June – Léon Degrelle, fascist
• 3 July – Fernand Dehousse, politician
• 29 July – Alice Roberts, actress
• 4 August – Marie José of Belgium, Queen of Italy
• 5 August – Francis Walder, writer and soldier
• 8 August – André Demedts, educator
• 15 September – Charles of Limburg Stirum, courtier
• 16 September – Joseph Donceel, Jesuit
• 25 September – Madeleine Bourdouxhe, author
• 22 November – Rita Lejeune, medievalist

Deaths

• 25 January – Pierre-Lambert Goossens, Archbishop of Mechelen
• 25 February – Jean Baptiste Abbeloos, orientalist
• April – Victor Warot, opera singer
• May – Jan-Baptist Huysmans, painter
• 24 April – Georges Montefiore-Levi, industrialist
• 24 August – Alfred Stevens, painter
• 23 September – Jan Van Rijswijck, politician
• 26 September – Paul Splingaerd, mandarin
• 27 September – Felix Leopold Oswald, science populariser
• 9 November – Léon Vanderkindere, historian
• 30 December – Eugène Goossens, père, conductor
• 31 December – Hippolyte Lippens, industrialist