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

• 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.

Publications

Periodicals

• Annuaire de la Société d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 21^[3]
• Le Masque (monthly review of art and literature) begins publication^[4]

Books

• Maurice De Wulf, Histoire de la philosophie en Belgique (Brussels, Albert Dewit; Paris, Félix Alcan)^[5]
• Henri Hymans, Bruxelles (Paris, Librairie Renouard)^[6]
• Godefroid Kurth, La Cité de Liège au Moyen-Âge, vols. 2-3 (Brussels, Dewit; Liège, Cormaux et Demarteau)^[7]
• B. Seebohm Rowntree, Land and Labour: Lessons From Belgium (London, Macmillan)^[8]
• Émile Verhaeren, Les Rythmes souverains and Les Villes à pignons

Art and architecture

Cinema

• Toto et sa soeur en bombe à Bruxelles^[9]

Births

• 23 January – Django Reinhardt, jazz musician (died 1953)
• 10 February – Georges Pire, Dominican friar (died 1969)
• 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

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