1894 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1894 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1894 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II[1]
• Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert (until 26 March), Jules de Burlet (starting 26 March)[2]

Events

• February – Edouard Whettnall appointed ambassador to London.[3]
• 25-26 March – Belgian Labour Party adopts the Charter of Quaregnon
• 5 May – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers opens (to 5 November)
• 12 May – Publication of an Anglo-Belgian Agreement leasing Bahr el Ghazal to the Congo Free State and a stretch of Congolese territory to the British. The exchange of territory was later rescinded under French and German pressure in the diplomatic build-up to the 1898 Fashoda Incident.[4]
• 4-11 August – International congress of applied chemistry held in Brussels and Antwerp[5]
• 14 October – First Belgian general election under universal manhood suffrage.[6]
• 5 November – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers ends.

Publications

Periodicals

• Revue Néoscholastique begins publication.[7]
• Durendal begins publication.[8]

Other

• Alphonse Dubois, Faune des vertébrés de la Belgique: Série des oiseaux (Brussels, A la librairie C. Muquardt, Th. Falk Sr), vol. 2[9]
• Maurice Maeterlinck, Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et La mort de Tintagiles: trois petits drames pour marionnettes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)[10]
• Max Rooses, Letterkundige studiën
• Edmond-Louis de Taeye, Les artistes belges contemporains

Art and architecture

Eugène Laermans, The Emigrants (1894)

Exhibitions

• 17 February-15 March – first exhibition of La Libre Esthétique in Brussels.[11]

Paintings

• Eugène Laermans, The Emigrants

Births

• 17 July – Georges Lemaître, physicist and astronomer (died 1966)

Deaths

• 22 January – Hendrik Beyaert (born 1823), architect
• 4 February – Adolphe Sax (born 1814), inventor of the saxophone
• 27 April – Ernest Slingeneyer (born 1820), painter
• 18 June – Jean-Baptiste Bethune (born 1821), architect

References

1. "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
2. Dumont, Georges-Henri (2017). Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (in French). Le Cri. p. 326. ISBN 9782390010555.
3. J. Scott-Keltie (ed.), The Statesman's Yearbook (London and New York, 1895), p. 392.
4. M. P. Hornik, "The Anglo-Belgian Agreement of 12 May 1894", The English Historical Review, Vol. 57, No. 226 (1942), pp. 227-243.
5. Congrès international de chimie appliquée, Bruxelles-Anvers, 4-11 août 1894. 1894.
6. Mackie, Thomas T.; Rose, Richard (2016). The International Almanac of Electoral History. Springer. p. 17. ISBN 9781349098514.
7. https://www.persee.fr/issue/phlou_0776-5541_1894_num_1_1
8. "Durendal: Revue catholique d'art et de littérature (1894-1914; 1921)". Périodiques numérisés dans le cadre de l'Action de Recherche Concertée. Université libre de Bruxelles.
9. https://archive.org/details/faunedesvertdela02dubo/page/n8
10. https://archive.org/details/alladineetpalom00maetgoog/page/n8
11. La Libre Esthétique: Catalogue de la première exposition à Bruxelles (1894) On Internet Archive