1906 in the Congo Free State

The following lists events that happened during 1906 in the Congo Free State.

← 1905 1904 1903 1906 in the Congo Free State → 1907 1908 1909
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s

Incumbent

• King – Leopold II of Belgium
• Governor-general – Théophile Wahis

Events

Date	Event
	The Compagnie du Katanga, Comité Spécial du Katanga and Tanganyika Concessions form the mining company Union Minière du Haut-Katanga (UMHK).
	Forminière (Société internationale forestière et minière du Congo) is founded by Jean Jadot.
31 October	The Comité Spécial du Katanga (CSK), the Congo Free State and the Société Générale de Belgique found the Compagnie du Chemin de fer du Bas-Congo au Katanga (BCK) to build a rail link from Bukama to Port Franqui on the Kasai River.

See also

• Congo Free State
• History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Sources

• BCK - KDL - Le site des chemins de fer du Katanga, 2010, archived from the original on 4 December 2010, retrieved 31 March 2021
• Derksen, Richard (1983), "Forminière in the Kasai, 1906-1939", African Economic History, 12 (12): 49–65, doi:10.2307/3601316, JSTOR 3601316
• Oliver, Roland; Sanderson, G.N., eds. (1975), The Cambridge History of Africa, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-22803-9, retrieved 17 March 2021