1897 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- 10 May â Brussels International Exposition opens
- 28 July â Prime Minister of the United Kingdom gives notification of his country's intention to withdraw from the Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation (1862), to come into effect one year later.
- 16 August â Belgian Antarctic Expedition sets sail from Antwerp
- 8 November â Brussels International Exposition closes
- 16 December â Charles-Gustave Walravens appointed bishop of Tournai
Publications
- Exhibitions
- Camille Lemonnier, Alphonse Wauters, and Armand Heins, Le Palais de la ville de Bruxelles à l'Exposition universelle de 1897[3]
- Books
- Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 14.
- Grant Allen, Cities of Belgium (London, G. Richards)[4]
- Louis Cloquet, Les grandes cathédrales du monde catholique (Desclée De Brouwer)[5]
- Guido Gezelle, Rijmsnoer
- Gustave Kahn, Limbes de lumières, illustrated by Georges Lemmen (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
- Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Les Origines de la psychologie contemporaine[6]
- Emile Vandervelde, Le question agraire en Belgique
Births
- 1 January â Albert De Vleeschauwer, politician (died 1971)
- 24 January â Fernand Ledoux, actor (died 1994)
- 29 January â Honoré Vlamynck, footballer (died 1974)
- 11 April â Paul Graeffe, bobsledder (died 1957)
- 7 May â Marcel Maas, pianist (died 1950)
- 11 May â Joris Minne, artist (died 1988)
- 2 June â Léon Trulin, intelligence agent (died 1915)
- 8 June â Domien Jacob, gymnast (died 1984)
- 19 June â Ernest Casimir-Lambert, bobsledder (died 1931)
- 1 August â Camil Van Hulse, pianist (died 1988)
- 25 August â Léoncé Oleffe, athlete (died 1972)
- 12 September â Albert Wyckmans, cyclist (died 1995)
- 4 November â Paul Finet, politician (died 1965)
- 5 November â Paul Kronacker, politician (died 1994)
- 24 November
- Lode Craeybeckx, politician (died 1976)
- Pierre Devaux, athlete (died 1984)
- 5 December â Gust De Muynck, broadcaster (died 1986)
- 18 December â Fernand Collin, banker (died 1990)
Deaths
- 13 February â Gustave Den Duyts (born 1850), artist
- 1 March â Jules de Burlet (born 1844), politician
- 12 July â Félix Godefroid (born 1818), harpist
- 23 September â Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux (born 1826), bishop of Tournai
- 22 November â Frans Verhas (born 1827), painter
