1899 in Belgium
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Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold II[1]
- Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer (to 23 January); Jules Vandenpeereboom (25 January to 5 August); Paul de Smet de Naeyer (from 5 August)
Events
- 24 January â Unable to broker a coherent government policy on demands for proportional representation, Paul de Smet de Naeyer hands over the premiership to his colleague Jules Vandenpeereboom
- 14 February â Belgian Antarctic Expedition research vessel Belgica freed from Antarctic ice.
- 28â30 June â Violent protests in Brussels demanding introduction of universal manhood suffrage with proportional representation.[2]
- 29 July â Belgium among the 26 signatories to the Hague Convention
- 31 July â Jules Vandenpeereboom offers his resignation as prime minister due to the failure of his government to pass its proposed legislation for proportional representation.
- 23 October â Thomas Louis Heylen succeeds Jean-Baptiste Decrolière as bishop of Liège
- 5 November â Belgian Antarctic Expedition arrives back in Antwerp on board research ship Belgica
- 24 November â Bill introducing proportional representation on the D'Hondt method passed in the lower house by 70 votes to 63 with 8 abstentions.
- 3 December â Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent, suspends Adolf Daens as a diocesan priest due to his political activism for the Christene Volkspartij.[3]
- 30 December â Act introducing proportional representation published as law.[4]
Publications
- Periodicals
- Annales de le Société d'archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 13
- Reference
- Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 15.
- Books
- Stephane Mallarmé, Poésies (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
- Pol de Mont, Poètes belges dâexpression française
- Max Rooses (ed.), Het schildersboek: Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, vol. 3.[5]
- Stijn Streuvels, Lenteleven
- Ãdouard van den Corput, Utilité des embellissements de Bruxelles: Nécessité de l'agrandissement territorial de la capital de la Belgique
- Emile Vandervelde, L'Alcoolisme et les conditions de travail en Belgique
- Ãmile Verhaeren, Les visages de la vie (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
- Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Histoires souveraines, with ornaments by Théo van Rysselberghe (Brussels, Edmond Deman)[6]
Art and architecture
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- Architecture
- Victor Horta, Maison du Peuple, Brussels
- Paul Saintenoy, Old England (department store), Brussels
- Art
- Constantin Meunier, The Horse at the Pond
Births
- 25 January â Paul-Henri Spaak, statesman (died 1972)
- 21 February â Clara Clairbert, soprano (died 1970)
- 28 February â Jacqueline Dyris, actress (died 1962)
- 20 March â Albert-Ãmile de Beauffort, colonial administrator (died 1983)
- 17 April â Gérard Debaets, cyclist (died 1959)
- 12 May â Maurice Carême, poet (died 1978)
- 17 May â Paul Ooghe, soldier (died 2001)
- 24 May â Henri Michaux, writer (died 1984)
- 21 June â Jean Hénault, athlete (died 1983)
- 30 June â Jean-Marie Plum, composer (died 1944)
- 22 July â Elisabeth van der Noot d'Assche, aristocrat (died 1974)
- 24 August â Albert Claude, Nobel Prize-winning biologist (died 1983)
- 29 September â Gaspard Lemaire, Olympic swimmer (died 1979)
- 20 October â Marnix Gijsen, writer (died 1984)
- 3 November â Julien Vervaecke, cyclist (died 1940)
- 8 November â Ernest Adam, politician (died 1985)
- 15 November â Auguste Pelsmaeker, footballer (died 1976)
- 20 December â Emile Brichard, cyclist (died 2004)
- 31 December â Richard Declerck, politician (died 1986)
Deaths
- 17 January â Camille Everardi (born 1824), baritone and voice teacher
- 1 March â Abraham Mayer (born 1816), physician
- 12 March â Edmond De Schampheleer (born 1824), artist
- 1 April â Clara de Hirsch (born 1833), businesswoman
- 28 May â Charles Piot (born 1812), archivist
- 14 July â Charles-Joseph de Harlez de Deulin (born 1832), Orientalist
- 27 August â Emmanuel Hiel (born 1834), writer
- 4 September â Théodore Baron (born 1840), painter
- 6 September â Jean Baptiste Carnoy (born 1836), priest-scientist
- 27 November â Guido Gezelle (born 1830), priest-poet
- 27 December â Henri Evenepoel (born 1872), artist
