1990 in Belgium

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1990
in
Belgium

Decades:
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
  • 2010s
See also:Other events of 1990
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1990 in Belgium.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch: Baudouin[1]
  • Prime Minister: Wilfried Martens

Events[]

  • 4 to 5 April – Constitutional crisis: King Baudouin suspended as king for 36 hours after refusing to sign a law legalising abortion
  • 26 June – City of Antwerp adopts the Globaal structuurplan, a first attempt at structured urban planning for the whole city and regeneration of dockland neighbourhoods.[2]
  • 28 October – German-speaking Community Council election

Publications[]

  • Brian Bond, Britain, France, and Belgium, 1939-1940 (Brassey's)
  • B. Francq and D. Lapeyronnie, Les deux morts de la Wallonie sidérurgique
  • Donald Flanell Friedman, The Symbolist Dead City: A Landscape of Poesis (Garland)
  • Leen Van Molle, Ieder voor allen: De Belgische Boerenbond, 1890–1990 (Leuven University Press, 9)
Drama
  • Hugo Claus, Four Works for the Theatre, translated by David Willinger, Luk Truyts and Luc Deneulin

Art and architecture[]

Luc Tuymans, Body (1990)
Cinema releases
Visual arts
  • Jan Fabre, Tivoli
  • Luc Tuymans, Body

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • 11 February – Léopold Anoul (born 1922), footballer
  • 12 February – Gustaaf Hulstaert (born 1900), entomologist
  • 5 March – Karel Thijs (born 1918), cyclist
  • 14 March – Léo Souris (born 1911), composer
  • 7 June – Max Loreau (born 1928), philosopher
  • 8 June – Remy Van Lierde (born 1915), fighter pilot
  • 9 June – Charles Paul de Cumont (born 1902), general
  • 19 June – Karel Sys (born 1914), boxer
  • 29 June – René Boël (born 1899), industrialist
  • 5 July – Simona Noorenbergh (born 1907), missionary
  • 13 August – André Canonne (born 1937), writer and librarian
  • 27 August – Gérard Garitte (born 1914), Orientalist
  • 28 August – Robert Jan Verbelen (born 1911), collaborator
  • 30 August – Jacques Grippa (born 1913), politician
  • 2 September – Léon Van Hove (born 1924), scientist
  • 14 September – Wim De Craene (born 1950), singer
  • 30 October – Germaine Van Dievoet (born 1899), Olympic swimmer
  • 3 December – André Vlerick (born 1919) economist and politician
  • 11 December – Fernand Collin (born 1897), banker

References[]

  1. ^ "Baudouin I, king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  2. ^ Steven Sterkx, "Antwerp", in Cities as Engines of Sustainable Competitiveness: European Urban Policy in Practice, edited by Leo van den Berg, Jan van der Meer and Luis Carvalho (Routledge, 2016).
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