1895 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1895 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1895 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II[1]
• Prime Minister: Jules de Burlet[2]

Events

Poster advertising the international choral competition in Liège

• 24 January – Compagnie Maritime Belge founded
• 3 February – Marie-Thérèse Joniaux condemned to death for multiple poisonings
• 21 July – International choral competition in Liège opens
• 1 September – Royal Belgian Football Association founded
• 13 November – Lumière brothers demonstrate the cinematograph at the Physics Museum of the Catholic University of Leuven, one of the first such demonstrations outside France.[3]
• 5 December – Founding committee of the Belgian Automobile Club holds first meeting in Taverne de la Régence, Place Royale, Brussels.[4]

Publications

Émile Verhaeren, Almanach, illustrated by Théo Van Rysselberghe

Periodicals

• Le Vingtième Siècle begins publication
• Le Congo illustré ends publication

Scholarship

• Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 13.[5]
• Maurice De Wulf, Histoire de la Philosophie Scolastique dans les Pays-Bas et la Principauté de Liège, jusqu'à la Révolution française
• Auguste Lameere, Manuel de la faune de Belgique: Animaux non insectes
• Edmond Marchal, La sculpture et les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'orfèvrerie belges (Brussels, F. Hayez)[6]
• Édouard van den Corput, L'alcoolisme, l'hérédité et la question sociale (1895)

Literature

• Maurice Maeterlinck, Interior, premiered at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, 15 March.[7]
• Émile Verhaeren, Les villes tentaculaires (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
• Émile Verhaeren, Almanach, a collection of verse with illustrations by Théo Van Rysselberghe

Art and Architecture

Painting

• Prix de Rome: Jean Delville

Architecture

• Victor Horta, Hôtel van Eetvelde

Births

• undated
  • Henri Smets, athlete (died 1994)
• 6 February – Jean-Pierre Vermetten, Olympic swimmer
• 13 February – Paul Nougé, poet (died 1967)
• 10 March
  • Mathieu Bragard, footballer (died 1952)
  • Jules Vanhevel, cyclist (died 1969)
• 9 April – Clément Doucet, pianist (died 1950)
• 19 April – Herman Roosdorp, racing driver (died 1965)
• 23 April – Robert Coppée, footballer (died 1970)
• 7 May – Adolphe Goemaere, Olympic sportsman (died 1970)
• 18 May – Herman de Gaiffier d'Hestroy, Olympic equestrian (died 1960)
• 28 May – Yvonne Hubert, pianist (died 1988)
• 5 June – August Baeyens, composer (died 1966)
• 25 June – Alice Frey, painter (died 1981)
• 24 July – Jozef Peeters, artist (died 1960)
• 17 August – Nicolas Lazarévitch, anarchist (died 1975)
• 29 August – Jeanne Cappe, author (died 1956)
• 18 September – Constant Janssen, pharmaceutical entrepreneur (died 1970)
• 24 September – Frans De Haes, weightlifter (died 1923)
• 7 October – Maurice Grevisse, grammarian (died 1980)
• 21 October – Nand Geersens, broadcaster (died 1959)
• 25 October – Robert van Genechten, Dutch politician (died 1945)
• 11 November – Victor Soultanbeieff, chess master (died 1972)
• 14 November – Léopold Buffin de Chosal, pentathlete (died 1947)
• 25 November – Marcel Gustin, Olympic athlete (died 1977)
• 27 November – Eugène Gabriels, Olympic rower (died 1969)
• 29 November – Henri Liebaert, politician (died 1977)
• 30 December – August De Boodt, politician (died 1986)

Deaths

• 8 February – Jean-François Portaels (born 1818), painter
• 24 May – Joseph Quinaux (born 1822), painter
• 16 June – Alfred van der Smissen (born 1823), general
• 15 September – Alfred Verwee (born 1838), painter
• 16 September – Alphonse Balat (born 1818), architect
• 17 November – Jean-Édouard Bommer (born 1829), botanist

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. Guido Convents, "Les catholiques et le cinéma en Belgique (1895-1914)", in Invention of the Devil?edited by Roland Cosandey, André Gaudreault and Tom Gunning (Lausanne, 1992), p. 22.
4. Donald Weber, De blijde intrede van de automobiel in België 1895-1940 (Ghent, Academia Press, 2010), p. 53.
5. http://www.academieroyale.be/Academie/documents/FichierPDFBiographieNationaleTome2055.pdf
6. https://archive.org/details/lasculptureetle00marcgoog
7. Bettina Knapp, Maurice Maeterlinck (Boston, 1975), p. 83.