1893 in Belgium

← 1892 1891 1890 1893 in Belgium → 1894 1895 1896
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1893 List of years in Belgium

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

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. http://digitheque.ulb.ac.be/fr/digitheque-revues-litteraires-belges/periodiques-numerises/index.html#c11376
4. Anne-Marie Musschoot, "Van Nu en Straks: A Flemish Art Nouveau Periodical, 1893-1901" Dutch Crossing, 35 (1988), pp. 45-57
5. https://archive.org/details/cheminsdeferpost1892belg
6. Emile Verhaeren, Poems, selected, translated and introduced by Will Stone (Todmorden, Arc, 2014), p. 24.