1897 in Belgium

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List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1897 in Belgium.

Incumbents[]

Events[]

Poster advertising the Brussels International Exposition
  • 10 May – Brussels International Exposition opens
  • 28 July – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom gives notification of his country's intention to withdraw from the Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation (1862), to come into effect one year later.
  • 16 August – Belgian Antarctic Expedition sets sail from Antwerp
  • 8 November – Brussels International Exposition closes
  • 16 December – appointed bishop of Tournai

Publications[]

Exhibitions
  • Camille Lemonnier, Alphonse Wauters, and Armand Heins, Le Palais de la ville de Bruxelles à l'Exposition universelle de 1897[3]
Books
  • Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 14.
  • Grant Allen, Cities of Belgium (London, G. Richards)[4]
  • Guido Gezelle, Rijmsnoer
  • Gustave Kahn, Limbes de lumières, illustrated by Georges Lemmen (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
  • Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Les Origines de la psychologie contemporaine[5]
  • Emile Vandervelde, Le question agraire en Belgique

Births[]

  • 1 January – Albert De Vleeschauwer, politician (died 1971)
  • 24 January – Fernand Ledoux, actor (died 1994)
  • 29 January – Honoré Vlamynck, footballer (died 1974)
  • 11 April – Paul Graeffe, bobsledder (died 1957)
  • 7 May – Marcel Maas, pianist (died 1950)
  • 11 May – Joris Minne, artist (died 1988)
  • 2 June – Léon Trulin, intelligence agent (died 1915)
  • 8 June – Domien Jacob, gymnast (died 1984)
  • 19 June – Ernest Casimir-Lambert, bobsledder (died 1931)
  • 1 August – Camil Van Hulse, pianist (died 1988)
  • 25 August – Léoncé Oleffe, athlete (died 1972)
  • 12 September – Albert Wyckmans, cyclist (died 1995)
  • 4 November – Paul Finet, politician (died 1965)
  • 5 November – Paul Kronacker, politician (died 1994)
  • 24 November
    • Lode Craeybeckx, politician (died 1976)
    • Pierre Devaux, athlete (died 1984)
  • 5 December – Gust De Muynck, broadcaster (died 1986)
  • 18 December – Fernand Collin, banker (died 1990)

Deaths[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  2. ^ Dumont, Georges-Henri (2017). Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (in French). Le Cri. p. 326. ISBN 9782390010555.
  3. ^ "Le Palais de la ville de Bruxelles à l'Exposition universelle de 1897". 1897.
  4. ^ "Cities of Belgium". 1897.
  5. ^ "Les Origines de la psychologie contemporaine". 1897.
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