1912 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Albert I
• Prime Minister: Charles de Broqueville

Events

• Date uncertain – Jean Neuhaus II begins producing soft-centre pralines to be sold in the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert
• 5 May-22 July – Belgium at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm
• 2 June – 1912 Belgian general election returns the Catholic Party to power with an increased majority.
• 9 June – Provincial elections
• 15 August – Revue de Belgique publishes Jules Destrée's open letter to the King calling for the separation of the Belgian state.
• 28 October – Léonie de Waha and Marguerite Delchef found the Union des femmes de Wallonie
• 3 November – Frenchman René Thomas wins the Coupe d'Ostende
• December – Antwerp Engineering Co. completes work on the ''Hispania''

Publications

• Thomas Braun, Fumée d'Ardenne, with cover art by Georges Lemmen
• Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert, Les Primitifs Flamands, volume 2
• Émile Verhaeren, ''Les Blés mouvants''

Art and architecture

• Fernand Khnopff, Portrait of Prince Leopold of Belgium

• Louis Cloquet, Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station

Births

• 12 January – Charles Moeller, theologian and literary critic
• 15 March – Louis Paul Boon, novelist
• 27 April – Franz Weyergans, writer and translator
• 3 May – May Sarton, writer
• 31 May – Jean de Selys Longchamps, RAF fighter pilot
• 4 July – Edward Vissers, cyclist
• 8 July – Jacques Stehman, composer
• 10 August – Romain Maes, cyclist
• 22 September – Éloi Meulenberg, cyclist
• 24 September – Pierre Fallon, missionary
• 6 October – Adolf Braeckeveldt, cyclist
• 24 November – François Neuville, cyclist

Deaths

• 28 January – Gustave de Molinari, economist
• 31 March – Gustave Boël, industrialist and politician
• 10 May – Arthur Gaillard, archivist
• 25 June – Louis-Joseph Antoine, faith healer
• 6 October – Auguste Beernaert, politician
• 23 November – Charles Bourseul, telegraph engineer
• 26 November – Princess Marie of Belgium