1890 in Belgium

← 1889 1888 1887 1890 in Belgium → 1891 1892 1893
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1890 List of years in Belgium

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

1. "Leopold II - king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
2. "Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert - Belgian-Flemish statesman". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
3. "Arcade et hémicycle, Parc du Cinquantenaire". Inventaire du patrimoine architectural (in French). Brussels Capital Region.
4. C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65.
5. https://archive.org/details/soixantedixansdh00bala/page/n8
6. https://archive.org/details/lescongolaisleur00goch/page/n6
7. https://archive.org/details/laluttedelirland00kerv/page/n7

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