• Source: 1891 in Belgium

Events in the year 1891 in Belgium.




Incumbents


Monarch: Leopold II
Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert




Events



29 January – Funeral of Prince Baudouin of Belgium.
2–20 May – Miners' strike in Liège, spreading to other parts of Wallonia.
10 May – Dock strikes in Antwerp and Ghent in support of coalminers in Wallonia.
16–22 August – International Socialist Labor Congress of Brussels
31 August – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 enters into force.
8–12 September – Catholic Congress in Mechelen
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




Publications


Periodicals
Gazet van Antwerpen begins publication
Het Volk begins publication
Annales de la Société d'archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 5.
La Jeune Belgique, vol. 10.
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



L'Essor disbands
Paintings
James Ensor, The Man of Sorrows
Fernand Khnopff, I lock my door upon myself
Théo van Rysselberghe, Maria Sèthe at the Harmonium




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



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
28 October – Louis Roersch (born 1831), philologist
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
Chantal Coché (born 1826), industrialist




References

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• Albert Mockel
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• Universitas Gent
• Theridiidae
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• Hubungan luar negeri Takhta Suci
• 1891 in Belgium
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• Mauser Model 1889
• Demographics of Belgium
• Monarchy of Belgium
• Pierre Ryckmans
• Prince Baudouin of Belgium
• 1891 in sports
• List of foreign ministers of Belgium
• Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of the Belgians