1890 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1890 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- 25 May â Provincial elections
- 27 May â Belgian National Day is made a legal holiday
- 10 June â Belgian general election, 1890
- 2 July â Brussels Conference Act of 1890 (anti-slavery convention)
- 21 July â first observance of 21 July as Belgian National Day; king lays the foundation stone of the Arcade du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.[3]
- 16 to 21 August â Seventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Antwerp, with an estimated 150,000 participants.[4]
- establishment of Sint-Leocollege in Bruges
Publications
- Sylvain Balau, Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique (1815-1884), 3rd edition, with a preface by Charles Woeste (Liège, L. Grandmont-Donders, and Ghent, A. Siffer).[5]
- Dom Bernard, Geschiedenis der Benedictijner Abdij van Affligem (Ghent, A. Siffer)[6]
- Prosper de Haulleville, Les nonciatures apostoliques en Belgique depuis 1830
- Paul Fredericq, The Study of History in Holland and Belgium, translated by Henrietta Leonard (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press)[7]
- Iwan Gilkin, La Damnation de l'artiste (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
- Alexis Marie Gochet, Les Congolais: leurs moeurs et usages. Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo (Liège, H. Dessain)[8]
- Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke, La Lutte de l'Irlande (Lille, Société de Saint-Augustin)[9]
Births
- 1 January â Alphonse Six, footballer (died 1914)
- 5 March â Ann Codee, actress (died 1961)
- 25 June â Camille Tihon, archivist (died 1972)
- 10 October â Jan Vanderheyden, film-maker (died 1961)
- 13 November â Oscar Blansaer, Olympic athlete (died 1962)
Deaths
- 2 March â Eudore Pirmez (born 1830), politician
- 22 March â Désiré de Haerne (born 1804), priest
- 11 May â Eugène Albert (born 1816), clarinet maker
- 23 May â Louis Artan (born 1837), artist
- 5 July â Pierre Van Humbeeck (born 1829), politician
- 3 September â Willem Linnig the Younger (born 1842), artist
- 22 September â Joanna Courtmans (born 1811), writer
- 23 October â Charles Verlat (born 1824), painter
- 16 November â Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler (born 1819), philologist
- 19 December â César De Paepe (born 1841), syndicalist
- 21 December â Eugène Anspach (born 1833), governor of the national bank
