1893 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1893 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Leopold II[1]
- Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert[2]
Events
Eugène Laermans, Evening strike (1893)
- 12–18 April – general strike to demand universal manhood suffrage.
- 15 April – Social-Christian Christene Volkspartij founded
- 12 August – First Paris–Brussels road cycle race
Publications
- Periodicals
- Annuaire de la section d'art et d'enseignement de la maison du Peuple[3]
- Van Nu en Straks begins publication[4]
- Reference and reports
- Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 12.
- Chemins de fer, postes, télégraphes, téléphones et marine. Compte rendu des opérations pendant l'année 1892 (Brussels, J. Goemaere)[5]
- Literature
- Cyriel Buysse, Het recht van de sterkste
- Guido Gezelle, Tijdkrans
- Prosper de Haulleville, Portraits et silhouettes, vol. 2
- Émile Verhaeren, Les campagnes hallucinées (Brussels, Edmond Deman)[6]
Art and architecture
Stairway in the Hôtel Tassel
- Les XX disband
- La Libre Esthétique founded
- Buildings
- Victor Horta, Hôtel Tassel completed
- Paintings
- Eugène Laermans, Evening strike
- Performances
- 17 May – Premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelléas et Mélisande
Births
- 2 January – Félix Sellier, cyclist (died 1965)
- 12 January – Victor Lenaers, cyclist (died 1968)
- 20 February – Gabrielle Petit, patriot (died 1916)
- 23 March
- Robert de Foy, head of the State Security Service (died 1960)
- René Vermandel, cyclist (died 1958)
- 4 September – Robert Poulet, writer (died 1989)
- 13 October – René Goormaghtigh, engineer (died 1960)
- 23 October – Jean Absil, composer (died 1974)
- 11 November – Paul van Zeeland, politician (died 1973)
- 9 December – Prosper Dezitter, collaborationist (died 1948)
Deaths
- 23 January – Eugène-François de Block (born 1812), artist
- 27 January – Alfred Belpaire (born 1820), locomotive engineer
- 28 January – Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (born 1829), painter
- 24 May – Félix Nève (born 1816), Orientalist
- 11 July – Eugène Simonis (born 1810), sculptor
- 7 November – Constant Lievens (born 1856), Jesuit priest
- 20 November – Léopold Harzé (born 1831), sculptor
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References
- "Leopold II - king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
- "Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert - Belgian-Flemish statesman". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
- http://digitheque.ulb.ac.be/fr/digitheque-revues-litteraires-belges/periodiques-numerises/index.html#c11376
- Anne-Marie Musschoot, "Van Nu en Straks: A Flemish Art Nouveau Periodical, 1893-1901" Dutch Crossing, 35 (1988), pp. 45-57
- https://archive.org/details/cheminsdeferpost1892belg
- Emile Verhaeren, Poems, selected, translated and introduced by Will Stone (Todmorden, Arc, 2014), p. 24.
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