1904 in Belgium

← 1903 1902 1901 1904 in Belgium → 1905 1906 1907
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1904 List of years in Belgium

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

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II ^[1]
• Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer

Events

• Institut de Droit International awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ^[2]

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. ^[3]

Art and architecture

Hôtel Hannon in Saint-Gilles, completed 1904

Buildings

• Hôtel Hannon, an Art Nouveau villa in Saint-Gilles, designed by Jules Brunfaut for Édouard Hannon

Publications

Émile Verhaeren, Les tendresses premières, illustrated by Théo van Rysselberghe (Brussels, Edmond Deman, 1904)

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) ^[4]
• G. Des Marez, L'organisation du travail a Bruxelles au XVe siècle (Brussels)
• Maurice De Wulf, Introduction à la philosophie néoscolastique. ^[5]
• Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 4. ^[6]

Guides

• First Michelin Guide for Belgium published
• Touring Club Belgium publishes road map of Belgium ^[7]

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

References

1. "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. "The Nobel Peace Prize 1904".
3. "Uitleveringsverdrag tusschen België en de Republiek Cuba., de 29 octobre 1904".
4. In Ancient World Digital Library
5. English translation 1910
6. "Digital Viewer by KBR".
7. Online at https://uurl.kbr.be/1404177