← 1905 1904 1903 1906 in Belgium → 1907 1908 1909
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1906 List of years in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1906 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 7 February – Murder of Jeanne Van Calck in Brussels.
• 24 February – Chilean diplomat Ernesto Balmaceda Bello murdered in Brussels.^[2]
• 10 April – Chief of the General Staff reports to Minister of War on confidential conversations held earlier in the year with the British military attaché regarding the landing of a British expeditionary force in the event of a German invasion.^[3]
• Belgian Olympic Committee founded, with Édouard de Laveleye as first president.
• 22 April to 2 May – 16 Belgian athletes participate in the Intercalated Games in Athens, winning 6 medals.
• 29 April – Belgium national football team play against Netherlands national football team at Antwerp, winning 5–0. Robert De Veen scored a hat-trick in the second half.
• 27 May – Partial legislative election
• 6 July – Belgium a signatory to the Geneva Convention of 1906.^[4]
• 15 to 19 August – Seventeenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Tournai.^[5][6]
• 28 October – Union Minière du Haut Katanga incorporated

Publications

Periodicals

• La Belgique Artistique et Littéraire, vols. 2 (January–March),^[7] 3 (April–June),^[8] 4 (July–September),^[9] 5 (October–December).^[10]

Books

• Félicien Cattier, Étude sur la situation de l'État indépendant du Congo
• Ernest Gilliat-Smith, The Story of Brussels, illustrated by Katharine Kimball and Guy Gilliat-Smith (London, J.M. Dent)^[11]
• Karl Hanquet (ed.), La Chronique de Saint-Hubert dite Cantatorium (Brussels, Hayez, Imprimeur de L'Academie)
• E. D. Morel, Red Rubber (New York)^[12]
• Max Rooses, Jordaens' leven en werken
• Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique . Tome sixième: Histoire des ordres religieux et des églises particulières (Brussels, Henri Lamertin), vol. 6 of the catalogue of manuscripts of the Royal Library of Belgium.^[13]
• Emile Vandervelde, Le Socialisme et l'agriculture (1906)
• Émile Verhaeren, Les heures d'après-midi (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

Art and architecture

• 12th Brussels Salon of the Société Royale des Beaux-arts^[14]

Paintings

• Théo van Rysselberghe, The Scarlet Ribbon

Buildings

• Royal Galleries of Ostend completed

Births

• 5 January – Mark Severin, graphic designer (died 1987)
• 25 January – Eddy Blondeel, SAS commander (died 2000)
• 14 February – Felix Meskens, athlete (died 1973)
• 18 February – Placide Tempels, missionary (died 1977)
• 22 March – Marcel Hastir, artist (died 2011)
• 8 June – Charles Janssens, actor (died 1986)
• 15 June – Léon Degrelle, fascist (died 1994)
• 3 July – Fernand Dehousse, politician (died 1976)
• 29 July – Alice Roberts, actress (died 1985)
• 4 August – Marie José of Belgium, Queen of Italy (died 2001)
• 5 August – Francis Walder, writer and soldier (died 1997)
• 8 August – André Demedts, educator (died 1992)
• 15 September – Charles of Limburg Stirum, courtier (died 1989)
• 25 September – Madeleine Bourdouxhe, author (died 1996)
• 22 November – Rita Lejeune, medievalist (died 2009)

Deaths

• 25 January – Pierre-Lambert Goossens (born 1827), Archbishop of Mechelen
• 25 February – Jean Baptiste Abbeloos (born 1836), orientalist
• April – Victor Warot (born 1834), opera singer
• May – Jan-Baptist Huysmans (born 1826), painter
• 24 April – Georges Montefiore-Levi (born 1832), industrialist
• 24 August – Alfred Stevens (born 1823), painter
• 23 September – Jan Van Rijswijck (born 1853), politician
• 26 September – Paul Splingaerd (born 1842), mandarin
• 27 September – Felix Leopold Oswald (born 1845), science populariser
• 9 November – Léon Vanderkindere (born 1842), historian
• 30 December – Eugène Goossens, père (born 1845), conductor
• 31 December – Hippolyte Lippens (born 1847), industrialist