1903 in Belgium

Events in the year 1903 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 30 July-6 August – 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in Brussels.
 * 15 August – German-Belgian railway convention signed.

Publications

 * Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 17.
 * Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 2
 * Max Rooses, Rubens' leven en werken
 * Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 3.
 * Emile Vandervelde, L'Exode rural et le retour aux champs

Art and architecture

 * Théo van Rysselberghe, The Reading

Births

 * 8 June – Marguerite Yourcenar, French novelist (died 1987)
 * 19 August - Gérard Devos, footballer (died 1972)

Deaths

 * 19 June – Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne (born 1872)
 * 21 July – Henri Alexis Brialmont (born 1821), military architect