1894 in Belgium

• Monarch: Leopold II^[1]
• Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert (until 26 March), Jules de Burlet (starting 26 March)^[2]

• 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 The exchange of territory was later rescinded under French and German pressure in the diplomatic build-up to the 1898 Fashoda Incident.^[4]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.

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

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")

• 1 March — Marguerite Lefèvre, geographer (died 1967)
• 17 July – Georges Lemaître, physicist and astronomer (died 1966)

• 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