1907 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1907 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold II
 * Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer (to 2 May); Jules de Trooz (2 May–31 December); Frans Schollaert (from 31 December)

Events

 * Royal Belgian Hockey Association founded.
 * 24 March – Football season 1906-1907 ends with Royale Union Saint-Gilloise at the top of the Belgian First Division.
 * 14 April – Belgium national football team plays Netherlands national football team in Antwerp.
 * 21 April – Belgium national football team plays France national football team in Brussels.
 * 9 May – Belgium national football team plays Netherlands national football team in Haarlem.
 * 16 May-14 June – Ostend 1907 chess tournament.
 * 8 July – Scheldeprijs cycling race first organised by the Antwerp branch of the Belgian cycling federation
 * 23 July – Port of Zeebrugge formally opened.
 * 16 October – Copyright convention with Germany agreed in Brussels; ratified May 1908.
 * 18 October – Belgium a signatory to the Hague Convention of 1907
 * 26 October – Ratification of the German-Belgian railway convention of 1903.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * La Belgique Artistique et Littéraire, vols. 6 (January–March), 7 (April–June), 8 (July–September), 9 (October–December).


 * Books
 * Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Le rideau cramoisi, illustrated by Armand Rassenfosse (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
 * Félix Magnette, Les émigrés français aux Pays-Bas, 1789-1794 (Brussels, Hayez)
 * Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, Henri Lamertin)
 * Stijn Streuvels, De vlaschaard
 * Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 7.

Art and architecture

 * Henry De Groux, Portrait of James Ensor
 * Léon Spilliaert, Self-Portrait
 * Louis Tytgadt, After Mass in the Church of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Ter Hoye Beguinage in Ghent

Births

 * 3 February – Charles Verlinden, historian (died 1996)
 * 17 March – Jean Van Houtte, prime minister (died 1991)
 * 19 March – Charles-Emmanuel Janssen, politician (died 1985)
 * 28 April – Raymond Braine, footballer (died 1978)
 * 22 May – Hergé, comics author (died 1983)
 * 24 May – Jules François, ophthalmologist (died 1984)
 * 11 June – Raoul Henkart, fencer (died 1955)
 * 2 July – Jean-Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers, politician (died 1991)
 * 11 December – Pol Duwez, scientist (died 1984)

Deaths

 * 8 January – Theodoor Verstraete (born 1850), painter
 * 21 January – Louis Willems (born 1822), immunologist
 * 7 February – Jean-Charles Jacobs (born 1821), entomologist
 * 19 June – Léon Herbo (born 1850), painter
 * 8 November – Marie Sasse (born 1834), soprano
 * 5 December – Charles Leickert (born 1816), painter
 * 31 December – Jules de Trooz (born 1857), prime minister