1904 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1904 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

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

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

 * Periodicals
 * Annuaire de l'Institut de droit international begins publication
 * Bulletin des Sociétés Chimiques Belges begins publication
 * Het 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 (Brussels, Vromany)
 * G. Des Marez, L'organisation du travail a Bruxelles au XVe siècle (Brussels)
 * 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 (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

Births

 * Louis Pevernagie, painter (died 1970)
 * 6 January – Aimée Bologne-Lemaire, activist (died 1998)
 * 25 January – Albert De Roocker, Olympic fencer
 * 9 February – Karel Bossart, engineer (died 1975)
 * 10 February – Henri Hébrant, boxer
 * 13 February – Lucien Debleyser, boxer
 * 21 February – Armand Preud'homme, composer (died 1986)
 * 2 March – Jan Mertens, cyclist (died 1964)
 * 30 March
 * Marguerite Acarin, dance artist (died 1999)
 * Edgar P. Jacobs, comic book creator (died 1987)
 * 8 April – Piet Vermeylen, politician (died 1991)
 * 15 April – René Lagrou, Nazi collaborator (died 1969)
 * 9 May – Pol Demeuter, motorcycle racer (died 1934)
 * 12 May – Adolphe Groscol, Olympic athlete (died 1985)
 * 17 May – Fernand Dineur, cartoonist (died 1956)
 * 30 June – Edith Kiel, film maker (died 1993)
 * 8 July – Roger Motz, politician (died 1964)
 * 10 July – Jules Herremans, Olympic athlete (died 1974)
 * 16 July – Leo Joseph Suenens, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel (died 1996)
 * 27 July – Omer Taverne, cyclist (died 1981)
 * 17 August – Raymond Jeener, biologist (died 1995)
 * 18 September – Paul Van den Broeck, sportsman
 * 6 October – Victor Larock, politician (died 1977)
 * 23 October – Maximilien de Furstenberg, prelate (died 1988)
 * 19 November – Louise Janson-Scheidt, writer (died 1997)
 * 12 December – Jacques Van Melkebeke, artist and writer (died 1983)

Deaths

 * Robert Vinçotte (born 1844), engineer
 * 15 January – Eduard Lassen (born 1830), composer
 * 23 January – Gédéon Bordiau (born 1832), architect
 * 26 March – Ferdinand Pauwels (born 1830), painter
 * 21 April – Piatus of Mons (born 1815), theologian
 * 10 May – Henry Morton Stanley (born 1841), explorer of Congo
 * 9 June – Hendrik Frans Schaefels (born 1827), painter
 * 12 June – Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (born 1836), entrepreneur
 * 15 August – Frans de Potter (born 1834), writer
 * 19 November – August Snieders (born 1825), journalist
 * 13 December – Henri Van Cutsem (born 1839), patron of the arts
 * 24 December – Julien Dillens (born 1849), sculptor