1893 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- 12â18 April â general strike to demand universal manhood suffrage.
- 15 April â Social-Christian Christene Volkspartij founded
- 12 August â First ParisâBrussels road cycle race
Publications
- Periodicals
- Annuaire de la section d'art et d'enseignement de la maison du Peuple[3]
- Van Nu en Straks begins publication[4]
- Reference and reports
- Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 12.
- Chemins de fer, postes, télégraphes, téléphones et marine. Compte rendu des opérations pendant l'année 1892 (Brussels, J. Goemaere)[5]
- Frans de Potter, Vlaamsche bibliographie: Lijst der boeken, vlug- en tijdschriften, muziekwerken, kaarten, platen en tabellen, in België van 1830 tot 1890 verschenen (Ghent, Alfons Siffer)[6]
- Arthur Van Gehuchten, L'Anatomie du système nerveux de l'homme (Leuven)[7]
- Literature
- Cyriel Buysse, Het recht van de sterkste
- Guido Gezelle, Tijdkrans
- Prosper de Haulleville, Portraits et silhouettes, vol. 2
- Ãmile Verhaeren, Les campagnes hallucinées (Brussels, Edmond Deman)[8]
Art and architecture
- Les XX disband
- La Libre Esthétique founded
- Buildings
- Victor Horta, Hôtel Tassel completed
- Paintings
- Eugène Laermans, Evening strike
- Performances
- 17 May â Premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande
Births
- 2 January â Félix Sellier, cyclist (died 1965)
- 12 January â Victor Lenaers, cyclist (died 1968)
- 20 February â Gabrielle Petit, patriot (died 1916)
- 23 March
- Robert de Foy, head of the State Security Service (died 1960)
- René Vermandel, cyclist (died 1958)
- 4 September â Robert Poulet, writer (died 1989)
- 13 October â René Goormaghtigh, engineer (died 1960)
- 23 October â Jean Absil, composer (died 1974)
- 11 November â Paul van Zeeland, politician (died 1973)
- 9 December â Prosper Dezitter, collaborationist (died 1948)
Deaths
- 23 January â Eugène-François de Block (born 1812), artist
- 27 January â Alfred Belpaire (born 1820), locomotive engineer
- 28 January â Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (born 1829), painter
- 24 May â Félix Nève (born 1816), Orientalist
- 11 July â Eugène Simonis (born 1810), sculptor
- 7 November â Constant Lievens (born 1856), Jesuit priest
- 20 November â Léopold Harzé (born 1831), sculptor
