1891 in Belgium

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See also:Other events of 1891
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1891 in Belgium.

Incumbents[]

Events[]

General Boulanger's suicide in Ixelles
  • 29 January – Funeral of Prince Baudouin of Belgium.
  • 2–20 May – Miners' strike in Liège, spreading to other parts of Wallonia.[3]
  • 10 May – Dock strikes in Antwerp and Ghent in support of coalminers in Wallonia.[4]
  • 16–22 August – International Socialist Labor Congress of Brussels
  • 31 August – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 enters into force.
  • 30 September – French politician Georges Ernest Boulanger commits suicide at the tomb of his mistress in Ixelles Cemetery.
  • 27 November – New law against tramps and beggars[5]

Publications[]

Periodicals
Literature
  • Jules Destrée, L'oeuvre lithographique de Odilon Redon (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
  • Maurice Maeterlinck, Les Sept Princesses
  • Stephane Mallarmé, Pages (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
  • John of Ruusbroec, L'Ornement des noces spirituelles, translated by Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Émile Verhaeren, Les flambeaux noirs (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

Art and architecture[]

Fernand Khnopff, I lock my door upon myself (1891)
Paintings

Births[]

  • 19 January – Joseph De Craecker, fencer (died 1975)
  • 29 January – Henri Van Lerberghe, cyclist (died 1966)
  • 18 February – Henry George, cyclist (died 1976)
  • 25 March – Filip De Pillecyn, writer (died 1962)
  • 2 April – Marthe Crick-Kuntziger, museum curator (died 1963)
  • 3 May – Henri Rolin, politician (died 1973)
  • 20 June – Jeanne Hebbelynck, artist (died 1959)
  • 24 June – René Pinchart, gymnast (died 1970)
  • 10 August – Andries Mac Leod, mathematician (died 1977)
  • 7 September – Georges Cuisenaire, educator (died 1975)
  • 12 September – Jean-François Martial, actor (died 1977)
  • 18 November – Marie Delcourt, classicist (died 1979)
  • 23 November – Pierre Ryckmans, governor of Belgian Congo (died 1959)
  • 9 December
    • Léon Bekaert, industrialist and politician (died 1961)
    • John Langenus, football referee (died 1952)
  • 29 December – Alphonse Van Mele, gymnast (died 1972)

Deaths[]

Funeral of Prince Baudouin of Belgium, 29 January 1891
  • 4 January – Pierre de Decker (born 1812), politician
  • 23 January – Prince Baudouin of Belgium (born 1869)
  • 28 January – Eduard Wallays (born 1813), artist
  • 4 March – Camille Coquilhat (born 1853), colonial officer
  • 20 May – Paul Émile de Puydt (born 1810), writer
  • 31 July – Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (born 1814), glass painter
  • 17 August – Jean-Joseph Thonissen (born 1817), legal historian and politician
  • 16 November – Camille van Camp (born 1834), painter
  • 2 December – Caroline Boussart (born 1808), feminist
  • 13 December – Jean Stas (born 1813), analytical chemist
  • 20 December – Victor Jacobs (born 1838), politician
Date to be determined

References[]

  1. ^ "Leopold II - king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert - Belgian-Flemish statesman". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  3. ^ Gita Deneckere, Les Turbulences de la Belle Époque, 1878-1905 (Brussels: Le Cri), p. 75.
  4. ^ Gita Deneckere, Les Turbulences de la Belle Époque, 1878-1905 (Brussels: Le Cri), p. 75.
  5. ^ Loi du 27 novembre 1891 pour la répression du vagabondage et de la mendicité (1893).
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