# 1904 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
### Buildings

* Hôtel Hannon, an Art Nouveau villa in Saint-Gilles, designed by Jules Brunfaut for Édouard Hannon

## Publications
### 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