1886 in Belgium
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The following lists events that happened during 1886 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- 18â29 March â Series of strikes and disturbances in industrial areas of Wallonia
- 22 March â Law on copyright passed.[3]
- 4 April â Henri-Charles Lambrecht consecrated coadjutor bishop of Ghent
- 10 April â Soldiers fire on strikers in Roux
- 23 May â Provincial elections
- 8 June â Partial legislative elections of 1886
- 8 July â Royal decree establishing Royal Flemish Academy of Language and Literature
Publications
- Periodicals
- Het Belfort begins publication
- La Wallonie begins publication
- Bulletin du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, vol. 4. [4]
- Books
- Adolphe Burdo, Les Belges dans l'Afrique Centrale: De Zanzibar au lac Tanganika (P. Maes)
- Jean Stecher, Histoire de la Littérature néerlandaise en Belgique (Brussels, 1886)
- Ãmile Verhaeren, Les Moines
Art and architecture
Births
- 4 February â René-Gabriel van den Hout, priest and editor (died 1969)
- 12 February â Maurice Bladel, writer (died 1968)
- 18 May â Marcel Wolfers, sculptor (died 1976)
Deaths
- 9 February â Edmond Speelman (born 1819), Jesuit
- 30 March â Jean-Joseph Charlier (born 1794), revolutionary
- 5 July â Charles Baugniet (born 1814), artist
- 11 July â Jules Malou (born 1810), politician
- 6 August â Jean-François Abeloos (born 1819), sculptor
