1890 in Belgium
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Map of Belgium and Luxembourg from Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas (1890)
Events in the year 1890 in Belgium.
Incumbents[]
- Monarch - Leopold II[1]
- Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert[2]
Events[]
- 25 May – Provincial elections
- 27 May – Belgian National Day is made a legal holiday
- 10 June – Belgian general election, 1890
- 2 July – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 (anti-slavery convention)
- 21 July – first observance of 21 July as Belgian National Day; king lays the foundation stone of the Arcade du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.[3]
- 16 to 21 August – Seventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Antwerp, with an estimated 150,000 participants.[4]
- establishment of Sint-Leocollege in Bruges
Publications[]
- Sylvain Balau, Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique (1815-1884), 3rd edition, with a preface by Charles Woeste (Liège, L. Grandmont-Donders, and Ghent, A. Siffer).[5]
- Prosper de Haulleville, Les nonciatures apostoliques en Belgique depuis 1830
- Paul Fredericq and Henrietta Leonard, The Study of History in Holland and Belgium (Johns Hopkins University Press)
- Iwan Gilkin, La Damnation de l'artiste (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
- Alexis Marie Gochet, Les Congolais: leurs moeurs et usages. Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo (Liège, H. Dessain)[6]
- Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke, La Lutte de l'Irlande (Lille, Société de Saint-Augustin)[7]
Births[]
- 1 January – Alphonse Six, footballer
- 5 March – Ann Codee, actress (died 1961)
- 25 June – Camille Tihon, archvist (died 1972)
- 10 October – Jan Vanderheyden, film-maker (died 1961)
- 13 November – Oscar Blansaer, Olympic athlete (died 1962)
Deaths[]
- 2 March – Eudore Pirmez (born 1830), politician
- 22 March – Désiré de Haerne (born 1804), priest
- 11 May – Eugène Albert (born 1816), clarinet maker
- 23 May – Louis Artan (born 1837), artist
- 5 July – Pierre Van Humbeeck (born 1829), politician
- 3 September – Willem Linnig the Younger (born 1842), artist
- 22 September – Joanna Courtmans (born 1811), writer
- 23 October – Charles Verlat (born 1824), painter
- 16 November – Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler (born 1819), philologist
- 19 December – César De Paepe (born 1841), syndicalist
- 21 December – Eugène Anspach (born 1833), governor of the national bank
References[]
- ^ "Leopold II - king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
- ^ "Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert - Belgian-Flemish statesman". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
- ^ "Arcade et hémicycle, Parc du Cinquantenaire". Inventaire du patrimoine architectural (in French). Brussels Capital Region.
- ^ C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65.
- ^ "Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique (1815-1884)". 1890.
- ^ "Les Congolais : Leurs moeurs et usages : Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo". 1890.
- ^ "La lutte de l'Irlande". 1890.
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