Events in the year 1916 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Albert I Prime Minister: Charles de Broqueville
Events 2–14 June – Battle of Mont Sorrel 19 September – Belgian forces occupy Tabora in German East Africa (East African campaign) 19 October – Cardinal Mercier protests the deportation of forced labourers to Germany.Fernand Passelecq, Les déportation belges à la lumière des documents allemands (Berger-Levrault, 1917), p. 324.
Publications Frédéric Alvin, Les portraits en médailles des célébrités de la Belgique, a catalogue listing medallion portraits of figures from Belgian history Désiré-Joseph Mercier, A Signal of Distress from the Belgian Bishops to Public Opinion (London, Eyre and Spottiswood) Felix Timmermans, Pallieter
Births 21 January – Renaat Van Elslande, politician (died 2000) 9 February – Gaston Van Roy, Olympic shooter (died 1989) 7 March – Marie-Thérèse Bourquin, lawyer (died 2018) 1 June – Jean Jérôme Hamer, cardinal (died 1996) 16 April – Richard De Smet, Jesuit (died 1997) 27 August – Robert Van Eenaeme, cyclist (died 1959) 7 September – Charles Vanden Wouwer, footballer (died 1989) 7 October – Léonce-Albert Van Peteghem, bishop of Ghent (died 2004) 10 October – Bernard Heuvelmans, cryptozoologist (died 2001) 18 October – Jacques Van Offelen, politician (died 2006) 28 November – Mary Lilian Baels, second wife of King Leopold III of Belgium (died 2002) 30 November – Andrée de Jongh, patriot (died 2007) 30 December – Robert-Joseph Mathen, bishop (died 1997)
Deaths 4 January – Godefroid Kurth (born 1847), historian 12 March – Julien Davignon (born 1854), Catholic politician 1 April – Gabrielle Petit (born 1893), patriot 16 May – Émile Royer (born 1866), politician 1 June – François Stroobant (born 1819), lithographer 11 July – Rik Wouters (born 1882), painter 5 November – Antoon Stillemans (born 1832), bishop of Ghent 27 November – Émile Verhaeren (born 1855), poet
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