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
• 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

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)
• 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 Hébrans, 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