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
• 19 October – Cardinal Mercier protests the deportation of forced labourers to Germany.

  Publications

• Désiré-Joseph Mercier, A Signal of Distress from the Belgian Bishops to Public Opinion
• Felix Timmermans, Pallieter

  Births

• 21 January – Renaat Van Elslande, politician
• 9 February – Gaston Van Roy, Olympic shooter
• 7 March – Marie-Thérèse Bourquin, lawyer
• 16 April – Richard De Smet, Jesuit
• 27 August – Robert Van Eenaeme, cyclist
• 7 September – Charles Vanden Wouwer, footballer
• 7 October – Léonce-Albert Van Peteghem, bishop of Ghent
• 10 October – Bernard Heuvelmans, cryptozoologist
• 18 October – Jacques Van Offelen, politician
• 28 November – Mary Lilian Baels, second wife of King Leopold III of Belgium
• 30 November – Andrée de Jongh, patriot

  Deaths

• 12 March – Julien Davignon, Catholic politician
• 1 April – Gabrielle Petit, patriot
• 16 May – Émile Royer, politician
• 1 June – François Stroobant, lithographer
• 11 July – Rik Wouters, painter
• 5 November – Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent
• 27 November – Émile Verhaeren, poet