1898 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- 18 April - Coremans-De Vriendt law gives Dutch and French equal legal status in Belgian public life.[3]
- 22 May - Belgian general election, 1898[4]
- 5 June â Provincial elections
- 23 June â Opening of the Château royal d'Ardenne as a luxury hotel run by the Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels.
- 13â17 July â Eleventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Brussels.[5]
- 27 July â Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation comes to an end, due to notification of the United Kingdom's withdrawal a year earlier.
Publications
- Léon Bloy, Mendiant ingrat (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
- J. Nyssens-Hart, The Outer Port and the Inner Port of Bruges (Brussels, A> Lesigne)[6]
- Max Rooses (ed.), Het schildersboek: Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, vol. 1,[7] vol. 2.[8]
- Emile Vandervelde, Le Socialisme en Belgique
- Ãmile Verhaeren, Les aubes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Art and architecture
Births
- 8 February - André Fierens, footballer (d. 1972)[9]
- 5 March â Lucien Leboutte, air chief (d. 1988)
- 17 March - Raymond Decorte, cyclist (d. 1972)[10]
Deaths
- 12 January â Jean Jules Linden (born 1817), botanist
- 14 January â Polydore de Keyser (born 1832), Lord Mayor of London
- 25 January â François Roffiaen (born 1820), painter
- 22 March â Pieter De Rudder (born 1822), labourer
- 25 April â Prosper de Haulleville (born 1830), newspaperman
- 1 May â Alphonse Wauters (born 1817), archivist
- 3 June â Emma De Vigne (born 1850), painter
- 9 June â Joseph Jaquet (born 1822), sculptor
- 13 July â Ãmile Banning (born 1836), government adviser
- 23 August â Félicien Rops (born 1833), illustrator
- 11 September â Adolphe Samuel (born 1824), composer
- 30 September â Léon Mignon (born 1847), sculptor
- 25 December â Georges Rodenbach (born 1855), author
