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

• 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 Belgian National Day
• 16–21 August – Seventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Antwerp, with an estimated 150,000 participants.[3]
• 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).[4]
• 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)[5]
• Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke, La Lutte de l'Irlande (Lille, Société de Saint-Augustin)[6]

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. C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65.
4. https://archive.org/details/soixantedixansdh00bala/page/n8
5. https://archive.org/details/lescongolaisleur00goch/page/n6
6. https://archive.org/details/laluttedelirland00kerv/page/n7

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