The following lists events that happened during

1910 Events January * January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...

in the

Kingdom of Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the ...

Incumbents

* Monarch:

Albert I Albert I may refer to: People Born before 1300 * Albert I, Count of Vermandois (917–987) *Albert I, Count of Namur () *Albert I of Moha *Albert I of Brandenburg (), first margrave of Brandenburg *Albert I, Margrave of Meissen (1158–1195) *Alber ...

* Prime Minister: Frans Schollaert

Events

* 23 April to 1 November – Exposition Universelle et Internationale (world's fair) held in Brussels. * 22 May – Belgian general election, 1910 * 1-6 August – First

International Congress of Entomology The International Congress of Entomology (ICE) is the largest in-person conference for the science of entomology. It generally meets every 4 years, and has been held in locations around the world since 1910. Initially conferences were organized by ...

held in Brussels. * 23 September – Brussels Convention on Assistance and Salvage at Sea concluded.

Publications

;Periodicals * ''Annuaire de la Société d'Archéologie de Bruxelles'', vol. 21 * ''Le Masque'' (monthly review of art and literature) begins publication ;Books * Maurice De Wulf, ''Histoire de la philosophie en Belgique'' (Brussels, Albert Dewit; Paris, Félix Alcan) * Henri Hymans, ''Bruxelles'' (Paris, Librairie Renouard) * Godefroid Kurth, ''La Cité de Liège au Moyen-Âge'', vols. 2-3 (Brussels, Dewit; Liège, Cormaux et Demarteau) * B. Seebohm Rowntree, ''Land and Labour: Lessons From Belgium'' (London,

Macmillan MacMillan, Macmillan, McMillen or McMillan may refer to: People * McMillan (surname) * Clan MacMillan, a Highland Scottish clan * Harold Macmillan, British statesman and politician * James MacMillan, Scottish composer * William Duncan MacMillan ...

) * Émile Verhaeren, ''Les Rythmes souverains'' and ''Les Villes à pignons''

Art and architecture

;Cinema * '' Toto et sa soeur en bombe à Bruxelles''

Births

* 23 January – Django Reinhardt, jazz musician (died 1953) * 10 February –

Georges Pire Dominique Pire, O.P. (born Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire; 10 February 1910 – 30 January 1969) was a Belgian Dominican friar whose work helping refugees in post-World War II Europe saw him receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958. Pire ...

, Dominican friar (died 1969) * 10 May –

Bernard Voorhoof Bernard Voorhoof (10 May 1910 – 18 February 1974) was a Belgian footballer, for 34 years the Belgium national team top scorer with 30 goals in 61 matches. He was joined by Paul Van Himst in 1972 who needed 81 matches to score the same number ...

, footballer (died 1974) * 29 July –

Hector Riské Hector Riské (29 July 1910 – 21 December 1984) was a Belgian wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle featherweight at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially kn ...

, wrestler (died 1984) * 18 September –

Hendrik Cornelis Hendrik "Rik" Cornelis (1910–1999) was a Belgian colonial civil servant who served as the final Governor-General of the Belgian Congo from 1958 to 1960. His term ended with the independence of the Republic of the Congo. Cornelis was born in Be ...

, colonial governor (died 1999) * 24 September – Jean Servais, actor (died 1976) * 27 November –

Paul M. G. Lévy Paul Michel Gabriel, Baron Lévy (27 November 1910 – 16 August 2002) was a Belgian journalist and professor. He was born in Brussels and was a Holocaust survivor. He worked for many years as Director of Information at the Council of Europe ...

, journalist (2002)

Deaths

* 17 January –

Elisa Caroline Bommer Elise Caroline Bommer (calling name: Elisa) née Destrée (20 January 1832 in Laeken – 17 January 1910 in Brussels), was a Belgian botanist specialising in mycology, and was the wife of pteridologist and collector Jean-Édouard Bommer ...

(born 1832), botanist * 28 April –

Edouard Van Beneden Édouard Joseph Louis Marie Van Beneden (5 March 1846 in Leuven – 28 April 1910 in Liège), son of Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist. He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège ...

(born 1846), biologist * 18 May – Florimond Van Duyse (born 1843), musicologist * 21 July –

Maurice Joostens Baron Adolphe Marie Maurice Joostens (23 September 1862 – 21 July 1910), was a Belgian diplomat. As a signatory of the Boxer Protocol, the final act at the Algeciras Conference and the Colonial Charter in which Congo Free State was ceded t ...

(born 1862), diplomat * 21 October –

Charles van der Stappen Charles van der Stappen (also Karl van der Stappen; 19 September 1843 – 21 October 1910), was a Belgian sculptor, born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode. Life Educated at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (1859–1868), van der Stappen' ...

(born 1843), sculptor * 23 October –

Eugène Joors Eugène Joors (20 February 1850, Borgerhout - 23 October 1910, Berchem), was a Belgian painter in the realistic style. Life and work He studied from 1865 to 1870 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp, where his teacher were Polydore B ...

(born 1850), painter * 8 November – Adeline Plunkett (born 1824), ballerina * 19 November – Gustave Serrurier-Bovy (born 1858), designer

References

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