1884 in Belgium
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The following lists events that happened during 1884 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold II[1]
- Prime Minister:
- until 16 June: Walthère Frère-Orban
- 16 Juneâ26 October: Jules Malou
- starting 26 October: Auguste Marie François Beernaert
Events
- Belgian State Railways Type 25 taken into service
- 15 May â North Sea Fisheries Convention (signed 1882) comes into effect
- 16 June â Jules Malou replaces Walthère Frère-Orban as Prime Minister
- 25 May â Provincial elections
- June and July â Belgian general election, 1884[2]
- 5 July â Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property obtains legal force
- 26 October â Auguste Beernaert replaces Jules Malou as Prime Minister
- End of the First School War between confessional Catholic Party and secularist Liberal Party
Publications
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- Periodicals
- Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique, vol. 28.[3]
- La Belgique Horticole, vol. 34, edited by Ãdouard Morren.[4]
- Bibliographie de la Belgique, vol. 10.[5]
- Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez).[6]
- La Jeune Belgique, vol. 3.[7]
- Jurisprudence du port d'Anvers, vol. 29.[8]
- Le Magasin littéraire et scientifique begins publication.
- Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, vol. 45.[9]
- Messager des sciences historiques.[10]
- Le Mouvement Géographique begins publication.
- Le Patriote begins publication.
- Books
- Maria Doolaeghe, Jongste dichtbundel
- Louis Hymans, Bruxelles à travers les âges (3 vols., Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe)[11]
- Isidoor Teirlinck and Reimond Stijns, Arm Vlaanderen
- Léon Vanderkindere, L'Université de Bruxelles: Notice historique, faite à la demande du Conseil d'Administration (Brussels, P. Weissenbruch)[12]
Art and architecture
- Exhibitions
- Paintings
- Théo van Rysselberghe, Four Breakwaters
- James Ensor, The Rooftops of Ostend
Births
- 19 January â Valerius Geerebaert, Redemptorist (died 1957)
- 17 February â Arthur Vanderpoorten, politician (died 1945)
- 21 March â Paul Demasy, playwright (died 1974)
- 26 May â Félix Goblet d'Alviella, newspaperman (died 1957)
- 3 June â Julius Raes, Capuchin archivist (died 1961)
- 8 June â Paul Ermens, colonial officer (died 1957)
- 13 June â Jean Brusselmans, painter (died 1953)
- 6 September â Julien Lahaut, communist (died 1950)
- 22 November â Oscar Sevrin, missionary (died 1975)
- 30 November â Yvan Goor, motorcyclist (died 1958)
- 10 December â Robert Gillon, politician (died 1972)
- 20 December â Jean-Baptiste Sipido, anarchist (died 1959)
Deaths
- 7 April â Maria Doolaeghe (born 1803), poet
- 22 May â Louis Hymans (born 1829), writer and politician
- 10 July â Henri Delmotte (born 1822), writer
- 23 July â Louis Galesloot (born 1821), archivist
- 5 November â Edouard d'Huart (born 1800), politician
- 1 December â Louis-Gustave Amelot (born 1857), engineer
- 4 December â Frédéric Faber (born 1837), bibliophile
- 28 December â Edmond Hanssens (born 1843), colonial administrator
