1899 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1899 in Belgium.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch: Leopold II[1]
  • Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer (to 23 January); Jules Vandenpeereboom (25 January to 5 August); Paul de Smet de Naeyer (from 5 August)

Events[]

The Belgica trapped in Antarctic ice
  • 24 January – Unable to broker a coherent government policy on demands for proportional representation, Paul de Smet de Naeyer hands over the premiership to his colleague Jules Vandenpeereboom
  • 14 February – Belgian Antarctic Expedition research vessel Belgica freed from Antarctic ice.
  • 28–30 June – Violent protests in Brussels demanding introduction of universal manhood suffrage with proportional representation.[2]
  • 29 July – Belgium among the 26 signatories to the Hague Convention
  • 31 July – Jules Vandenpeereboom offers his resignation as prime minister due to the failure of his government to pass its proposed legislation for proportional representation.
  • 23 October – Thomas Louis Heylen succeeds as bishop of Liège
  • 5 November – Belgian Antarctic Expedition arrives back in Antwerp on board research ship Belgica
  • 24 November – Bill introducing proportional representation on the D'Hondt method passed in the lower house by 70 votes to 63 with 8 abstentions.
  • 3 December – Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent, suspends Adolf Daens as a diocesan priest due to his political activism for the Christene Volkspartij.[3]
  • 30 December – Act introducing proportional representation published as law.[4]

Publications[]

Max Rooses by Hendrik Haverman, 1899
Periodicals
  • Annales de le Société d'archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 13
Reference
Books
  • Stephane Mallarmé, Poésies (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
  • Pol de Mont, Poètes belges d’expression française
  • Max Rooses (ed.), Het schildersboek: Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, vol. 3.[5]
  • Stijn Streuvels, Lenteleven
  • Édouard van den Corput, Utilité des embellissements de Bruxelles: Nécessité de l'agrandissement territorial de la capital de la Belgique
  • Emile Vandervelde, L'Alcoolisme et les conditions de travail en Belgique
  • Émile Verhaeren, Les visages de la vie (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
  • Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Histoires souveraines, with ornaments by Théo van Rysselberghe (Brussels, Edmond Deman)[6]

Art and architecture[]

Old England department store, Brussels
Architecture
Art
  • Constantin Meunier, The Horse at the Pond

Births[]

  • 25 January – Paul-Henri Spaak, statesman (died 1972)
  • 21 February – Clara Clairbert, soprano (died 1970)
  • 28 February – Jacqueline Dyris, actress (died 1962)
  • 20 March – Albert-Émile de Beauffort, colonial administrator (died 1983)
  • 17 April – Gérard Debaets, cyclist (died 1959)
  • 12 May – Maurice Carême, poet (died 1978)
  • 17 May – Paul Ooghe, soldier (died 2001)
  • 24 May – Henri Michaux, writer (died 1984)
  • 21 June – Jean Hénault, athlete (died 1983)
  • 30 June – Jean-Marie Plum, composer (died 1944)
  • 22 July – Elisabeth van der Noot d'Assche, aristocrat (died 1974)
  • 24 August – Albert Claude, Nobel Prize-winning biologist (died 1983)
  • 29 September – Gaspard Lemaire, Olympic swimmer (died 1979)
  • 20 October – Marnix Gijsen, writer (died 1984)
  • 3 November – Julien Vervaecke, cyclist (died 1940)
  • 8 November – Ernest Adam, politician (died 1985)
  • 15 November – Auguste Pelsmaeker, footballer (died 1976)
  • 20 December – Emile Brichard, cyclist (died 2004)
  • 31 December – Richard Declerck, politician (died 1986)

Deaths[]

Guido Gezelle (1830–1899)
  • 17 January – Camille Everardi (born 1824), baritone and voice teacher
  • 1 March – Abraham Mayer (born 1816), physician
  • 12 March – Edmond De Schampheleer (born 1824), artist
  • 1 April – Clara de Hirsch (born 1833), businesswoman
  • 28 May – Charles Piot (born 1812), archivist
  • 14 July – Charles-Joseph de Harlez de Deulin (born 1832), Orientalist
  • 27 August – Emmanuel Hiel (born 1834), writer
  • 4 September – Théodore Baron (born 1840), painter
  • 6 September – Jean Baptiste Carnoy (born 1836), priest-scientist
  • 27 November – Guido Gezelle (born 1830), priest-poet
  • 27 December – Henri Evenepoel (born 1872), artist

References[]

  1. ^ "Leopold II - king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  2. ^ Luc Keunings, Une étape dans l'histoire de l'appareil policier belge: les troubles de juin 1899 à Bruxelles, Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, 64:4 (1986), pp. 718-739.
  3. ^ Jan de Maeyer, Arthur Verhaegen, 1847–1917: de rode baron (Leuven University Press, 1994), p. 306.
  4. ^ S. Vervaeck, "De strijd voor het algemeen enkelvoudig stemrecht", in 'Doorheen de nationale geschiedenis, vol. 2 (Brussels, Algemeen Rijksarchief, 1981), p. 159.
  5. ^ "Max Rooses, Het schildersboek. Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw. Deel 3 · DBNL".
  6. ^ "Histoires souveraines". Bruxelles, E. Deman. 1899.
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