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.Album officiel de l'Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles 1910 (Valentine & Sons, Dundee) On Internet Archive 22 May – Belgian general election, 1910 1-6 August – First International Congress of Entomology held in Brussels. 14 August – A fire at the Brussels International 1910 world's fair destroys exhibitions of Britain and France. 23 September – Brussels Convention on Assistance and Salvage at Sea concluded. 31 December – Census returns give total population of Belgium as 7,423,784.Paul Errera, "Belgium", Britannica Year-Book 1913, edited by Hugh Chisholm (London and New York, 1913), p. 966.
Publications Periodicals Annuaire de la Société d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 21Annuaire at Internet Archive Le Masque (monthly review of art and literature) begins publicationLe Masque at Internet Archive
Books Maurice De Wulf, Histoire de la philosophie en Belgique (Brussels, Albert Dewit; Paris, Félix Alcan)Histoire de la philosophie en Belgique at Internet Archive. Henri Hymans, Bruxelles (Paris, Librairie Renouard)Bruxelles at Internet Archive Godefroid Kurth, La Cité de Liège au Moyen-Âge, vols. 2-3 (Brussels, Dewit; Liège, Cormaux et Demarteau)vol. 2, vol. 3 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis (Brussels) B. Seebohm Rowntree, Land and Labour: Lessons From Belgium (London, Macmillan)Land and Labour at Internet Archive 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, Dominican friar (died 1969) 29 April – Simone Dubois, literary translator (died 2001) 10 May – Bernard Voorhoof, footballer (died 1974) 29 June – Andrée Grandjean, resister (died 1999) 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
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