1894 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1894 in Belgium.
Incumbents[edit]
- Monarch: Leopold II[1]
- Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert (until 26 March), Jules de Burlet (starting 26 March)[2]
Events[edit]
- 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 The exchange of territory was later rescinded under French and German pressure in the diplomatic build-up to the 1898 Fashoda Incident.[4]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]
- 28 October – Provincial elections
- 5 November – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers ends.
Publications[edit]
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[edit]
- Exhibitions
- 17 February-15 March – first exhibition of La Libre Esthétique in Brussels.[11]
Paintings
- Eugène Laermans, The Emigrants
- Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Irma Sèthe
Photography
- Édouard Hannon, Matinée d'Automne ("Autumn Morning")
Births[edit]
- 1 March — Marguerite Lefèvre, geographer (died 1967)
- 17 July – Georges Lemaître, physicist and astronomer (died 1966)
Deaths[edit]
- 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
- 15 August – Ernest Baert (born 1860), explorer
References[edit]
- ^ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
- ^ Dumont, Georges-Henri (2017). Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (in French). Le Cri. p. 326. ISBN 978-2-39001-055-5.
- ^ J. Scott-Keltie (ed.), The Statesman's Yearbook (London and New York, 1895), p. 392.
- ^ M. P. Hornik, "The Anglo-Belgian Agreement of 12 May 1894", The English Historical Review, Vol. 57, No. 226 (1942), pp. 227-243.
- ^ Sachs, François (1894). Congrès international de chimie appliquée, Bruxelles-Anvers, 4-11 août 1894.
- ^ Mackie, Thomas T.; Rose, Richard (2016). The International Almanac of Electoral History. Springer. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-349-09851-4.
- ^ Mercier, Désiré (1894). "La Philosophie Néo-Scolastique". Revue néo-scolastique. 1 (1).
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Faune des vertde la Belgique". Bruxelles, C. Muquardt. 1887.
- ^ "Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et la mort de Tintagiles: Trois petits drames pour marionnettes". Bruxelles, E. Deman. 1894.
- ^ La Libre Esthétique: Catalogue de la première exposition à Bruxelles (1894) On Internet Archive
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