1895 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- 24 January â Compagnie Maritime Belge founded
- 3 February â Marie-Thérèse Joniaux condemned to death for multiple poisonings
- 21 July â International choral competition in Liège opens
- 1 September â Royal Belgian Football Association founded
- 13 November â Lumière brothers demonstrate the cinematograph at the Physics Museum of the Catholic University of Leuven, one of the first such demonstrations outside France.[3]
- 5 December â Founding committee of the Belgian Automobile Club holds first meeting in Taverne de la Régence, Place Royale, Brussels.[4]
Publications
- Periodicals
- Le Vingtième Siècle begins publication
- Le Congo illustré ends publication
- Scholarship
- Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 13.[5]
- Maurice De Wulf, Histoire de la Philosophie Scolastique dans les Pays-Bas et la Principauté de Liège, jusqu'à la Révolution française (Mémoires de l'Académie royale de Belgique 51).[6]
- Henri La Fontaine and Paul Otlet, Conférence bibliographique internationale, Bruxelles, 1895: Documents (Brussels)[7]
- Auguste Lameere, Manuel de la faune de Belgique: Animaux non insectes
- Edmond Marchal, La sculpture et les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'orfèvrerie belges (Brussels, F. Hayez)[8]
- Ãdouard van den Corput, L'alcoolisme, l'hérédité et la question sociale (1895)
- Literature
- Maurice Maeterlinck, Interior, premiered at the Théâtre de l'Åuvre, 15 March.[9]
- Ãmile Verhaeren, Les villes tentaculaires (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
- Ãmile Verhaeren, Almanach, a collection of verse with illustrations by Théo van Rysselberghe
Art and Architecture
Births
- undated
- Henri Smets, athlete (died 1994)
- 6 February â Jean-Pierre Vermetten, Olympic swimmer
- 13 February â Paul Nougé, poet (died 1967)
- 10 March
- Mathieu Bragard, footballer (died 1952)
- Jules Vanhevel, cyclist (died 1969)
- 9 April â Clément Doucet, pianist (died 1950)
- 19 April â Herman Roosdorp, racing driver (died 1965)
- 23 April â Robert Coppée, footballer (died 1970)
- 7 May â Adolphe Goemaere, Olympic sportsman (died 1970)
- 18 May â Herman de Gaiffier d'Hestroy, Olympic equestrian (died 1960)
- 28 May â Yvonne Hubert, pianist (died 1988)
- 5 June â August Baeyens, composer (died 1966)
- 25 June â Alice Frey, painter (died 1981)
- 24 July â Jozef Peeters, artist (died 1960)
- 17 August â Nicolas Lazarévitch, anarchist (died 1975)
- 19 August â François Demol, footballer (died 1966)
- 29 August â Jeanne Cappe, author (died 1956)
- 18 September â Constant Janssen, pharmaceutical entrepreneur (died 1970)
- 24 September â Frans De Haes, weightlifter (died 1923)
- 7 October â Maurice Grevisse, grammarian (died 1980)
- 21 October â Nand Geersens, broadcaster (died 1959)
- 25 October â Robert van Genechten, Dutch politician (died 1945)
- 11 November â Victor Soultanbeieff, chess master (died 1972)
- 14 November â Léopold Buffin de Chosal, pentathlete (died 1947)
- 25 November â Marcel Gustin, Olympic athlete (died 1977)
- 27 November â Eugène Gabriels, Olympic rower (died 1969)
- 29 November â Henri Liebaert, politician (died 1977)
- 30 December â August De Boodt, politician (died 1986)
Deaths
- 8 February â Jean-François Portaels (born 1818), painter
- 24 May â Joseph Quinaux (born 1822), painter
- 16 June â Alfred van der Smissen (born 1823), general
- 15 September â Alfred Verwee (born 1838), painter
- 16 September â Alphonse Balat (born 1818), architect
- 17 November â Jean-Ãdouard Bommer (born 1829), botanist
