1896 in Belgium
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Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold II[1]
- Prime Minister: Jules de Burlet (until 25 February), Paul de Smet de Naeyer (from 25 February)[2]
Events
- 7 January â Official founding of the Belgian Automobile Club.[3]
- 15 April â Law on the making and importation of alcohol replaces duty on the capacity of distillery equipment (adopted in 1833) with a duty on the proportional alcohol content of the distilled product.[4]
- 25 April â Murder of Delphina-Angelica Borée in Brussels.[5]
- 14 May â Parish of St Anthony of Padua established in newly expanded Heirnis section of Ghent.
- 5 July â Belgian general election, 1896[6]
- 26 July â Provincial elections
Publications
- Pol de Mont, Dit zijn Vlaamsche wondersprookjes
- Maurice De Wulf, Ãtudes Historiques sur l'Esthétique de Saint Thomas d'Aquin[7]
- Maurice Maeterlinck, Le Trésor des humbles
- Ãdouard van den Corput, Bruxellensia: Croquis artistiques et historiques
- Emile Vandervelde, L'Evolution industrielle et le collectivisme[8]
- Ãmile Verhaeren, Les heures claires (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Art and architecture
- Paintings
Births
- 11 February â René Joannes-Powell, athlete (died 1940)
- 22 February â Paul van Ostaijen, poet (died 1928)
- 10 April â Jean-Baptiste Piron, soldier (died 1974)
- 14 August â Julien Lehouck, athlete (died 1944)
- 10 October â Omer Corteyn, athlete (died 1979)
Deaths
- 2 January â Walthère Frère-Orban (born 1812), politician[9]
- 9 January â Guillaume Vogels (born 1836), painter
- 6 February â Julie Dorus-Gras (born 1805), soprano
- 3 March â Constant de Deken (born 1852), missionary
- 6 May â Constantin Heger (born 1809), educator
- 7 June â Florent Crabeels (born 1829), painter
- 11 August â Xavier De Cock (born 1818), painter
- 9 December â Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (born 1819), genealogist
- 13 December â Xavier de Theux de Meylandt et Montjardin (born 1838), bibliophile
