1910 in Belgium

← 1909 1908 1907 1910 in Belgium → 1911 1912 1913
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	Other events of 1910 List of years in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1910 in the Kingdom of Belgium .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Albert I
• Prime Minister: Frans Schollaert

Events

Poster for the 1910 Brussels World Fair

• 23 April to 1 November – Exposition Universelle et Internationale (world's fair) held in Brussels. ^[1]
• 22 May – Belgian general election, 1910
• 1-6 August – First International Congress of Entomology held in Brussels. ^[2]
• 23 September – Brussels Convention on Assistance and Salvage at Sea concluded.
• 31 December – Census returns give total population of Belgium as 7,423,784. ^[3]

Publications

Periodicals

• Annuaire de la Société d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 21 ^[4]
• Le Masque (monthly review of art and literature) begins publication ^[5]

Books

• Maurice De Wulf, Histoire de la philosophie en Belgique (Brussels, Albert Dewit; Paris, Félix Alcan) ^[6]
• Henri Hymans, Bruxelles (Paris, Librairie Renouard) ^[7]
• Godefroid Kurth, La Cité de Liège au Moyen-Âge, vols. 2-3 (Brussels, Dewit; Liège, Cormaux et Demarteau) ^[8]
• B. Seebohm Rowntree, Land and Labour: Lessons From Belgium (London, Macmillan) ^[9]
• Émile Verhaeren, Les Rythmes souverains and Les Villes à pignons

Art and architecture

Cinema

• Toto et sa soeur en bombe à Bruxelles ^[10]

Births

• 23 January – Django Reinhardt, jazz musician (died 1953)
• 10 February – Georges Pire, Dominican friar (died 1969)
• 29 April – Simone Dubois, literary translator (died 2001)
• 10 May – Bernard Voorhoof, footballer (died 1974)
• 29 July – Hector Riské, wrestler (died 1984)
• 18 September – Hendrik Cornelis, colonial governor (died 1999)
• 24 September – Jean Servais, actor (died 1976)
• 27 November – Paul M. G. Lévy, journalist (2002)

Deaths

• 17 January – Elisa Caroline Bommer (born 1832), botanist
• 28 April – Edouard Van Beneden (born 1846), biologist
• 18 May – Florimond Van Duyse (born 1843), musicologist
• 21 July – Maurice Joostens (born 1862), diplomat
• 21 October – Charles van der Stappen (born 1843), sculptor
• 23 October – Eugène Joors (born 1850), painter
• 8 November – Adeline Plunkett (born 1824), ballerina
• 19 November – Gustave Serrurier-Bovy (born 1858), designer

References

1. Album officiel de l'Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles 1910 (Valentine & Sons, Dundee) On Internet Archive
2. "The First International Congress of Entomology". Nature . 84 (2129): 214–215. 18 August 1910. doi: 10.1038/084214a0 .
3. Paul Errera, "Belgium", Britannica Year-Book 1913, edited by Hugh Chisholm (London and New York, 1913), p. 966.
4. Annuaire at Internet Archive
5. Le Masque at Internet Archive
6. Histoire de la philosophie en Belgique at Internet Archive.
7. Bruxelles at Internet Archive
8. vol. 2, vol. 3
9. Land and Labour at Internet Archive
10. "Toto et sa soeur en bombe à Bruxelles (1910)". Early Cinema History YouTube Channel. 13 June 2020.