The following lists events that happened during 1907 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold II Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer (to 2 May); Jules de Trooz (2 May–31 December); Frans Schollaert (from 31 December)
Events Royal Belgian Hockey Association founded. 24 March – Football season 1906-1907 ends with Royale Union Saint-Gilloise at the top of the Belgian First Division. 14 April – Belgium national football team plays Netherlands national football team in Antwerp. 21 April – Belgium national football team plays France national football team in Brussels. 9 May – Belgium national football team plays Netherlands national football team in Haarlem. 16 May-14 June – Ostend 1907 chess tournament. 8 July – Scheldeprijs cycling race first organised by the Antwerp branch of the Belgian cycling federation 23 July – Port of Zeebrugge formally opened. 16 October – Copyright convention with Germany agreed in Brussels; ratified May 1908. 18 October – Belgium a signatory to the Hague Convention of 1907 26 October – Ratification of the German-Belgian railway convention of 1903.Marie-Thérèse Bitsch, La Belgique entre la France et l'Allemagne, 1905-1914 (Paris, 1994), p. 342.
Publications Periodicals La Belgique Artistique et Littéraire, vols. 6 (January–March),At Internet Archive 7 (April–June),At Internet Archive 8 (July–September),At Internet Archive 9 (October–December).At Internet Archive
Books Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Le rideau cramoisi, illustrated by Armand Rassenfosse (Brussels, Edmond Deman) Félix Magnette, Les émigrés français aux Pays-Bas, 1789-1794 (Brussels, Hayez) Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, Henri Lamertin)At Internet Archive Stijn Streuvels, De vlaschaard Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 7.
Art and architecture
Henry De Groux, Portrait of James Ensor Léon Spilliaert, Self-Portrait Louis Tytgadt, After Mass in the Church of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Ter Hoye Beguinage in Ghent
Births
3 February – Charles Verlinden, historian (died 1996) 17 March – Jean Van Houtte, prime minister (died 1991) 19 March – Charles-Emmanuel Janssen, politician (died 1985) 28 April – Raymond Braine, footballer (died 1978) 22 May – Hergé, comics author (died 1983) 24 May – Jules François, ophthalmologist (died 1984) 11 June – Raoul Henkart, fencer (died 1955) 2 July – Jean-Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers, politician (died 1991) 11 December – Pol Duwez, scientist (died 1984)
Deaths 8 January – Theodoor Verstraete (born 1850), painter 21 January – Louis Willems (born 1822), immunologist 7 February – Jean-Charles Jacobs (born 1821), entomologist 19 June – Léon Herbo (born 1850), painter 8 November – Marie Sasse (born 1834), soprano 5 December – Charles Leickert (born 1816), painter 31 December – Jules de Trooz (born 1857), prime minister
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