1908 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1908 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold II
 * Prime Minister: Frans Schollaert

Events

 * 9 January – Frans Schollaert formally takes office as prime minister, after the sudden death of Jules de Trooz at the end of the previous year.
 * 19 April – Confédération syndicale belge organization is founded.
 * 24 May – Partial legislative elections
 * 25 May – Parliament ratifies the 1907 copyright convention with Germany.
 * 14 June – Provincial elections
 * 10 July – Paul Van Asbroeck wins a gold medal at the 1908 Olympic Games
 * 30 September – Premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird at the Moscow Art Theatre
 * 18 October – Belgian Parliament passes the Colonial Charter on the Belgian annexation of the Congo Free State.
 * 30 October – Cabinet reshuffle with Jules Renkin becoming first Minister for Colonies
 * 15 November – Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo

Publications

 * Émile de Borchgrave, Souvenirs diplomatiques de quarante ans (Brussels)
 * Fernand Crommelynck, Le sculpteur de masques (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
 * Stijn Streuvels, Tieghem: Het Vlaamsche lustoord (Ghent, Vercauteren)
 * Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 8.
 * Emile Verhaeren, James Ensor (Brussels, G. Van Oest)

Art and architecture

 * Buildings
 * Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk, Ostend (begun 1899)


 * Films
 * Durch Brüssel in 10 Minuten (9-minute documentary).

Births

 * 2 January – André Verbeke, architect (died 1978)
 * 23 January – Stanislas-André Steeman, writer (died 1970)
 * 14 March – Joseph André, priest (died 1973)
 * 14 May – Jules Lismonde, artist (died 2001)
 * 20 September – Simon Dewinter, boxer (died 1972)
 * 4 October – Celeste van Exem, missionary (died 1993)
 * 16 November – Emmanuelle Cinquin, religious sister (died 2008)
 * 24 November – Hubert Ansiaux, banker (died 1987)
 * 28 November – Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist (died 2009)

Deaths

 * 4 February – Albert Lancaster (born 1849), meteorologist
 * 6 February – Jan Portielje (born 1829), painter
 * 22 February – Édouard van den Corput (born 1821), physician
 * 10 May – Eugène Lafont (born 1837), missionary
 * 5 June – Jef Lambeaux (born 1852), sculptor
 * 21 June – Luís Cruls (born 1848), astronomer
 * 19 June – Louis van Waefelghem (born 1840), viola d'amore player
 * 4 August – Piet Verhaert (born 1852), painter
 * 24 December – François-Auguste Gevaert (born 1828), musicologist