1901 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- 25 July â Bishop Antoon Stillemans consecrates Church of St Anthony of Padua, Ghent
- 2 August â Deposits of coal discovered at As in the province of Limburg
Publications
- Series
- Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 16.
- Maurice De Wulf launches 15-volume collection Les Philosophes Belges
- Ernest Gilliat-Smith, The Story of Bruges, illustrated by Edith Calvert and Herbert Railton (London, J.M. Dent)[2]
- Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 1.[3]
- Studies
- Eugène Demolder, Constantin Meunier (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
- Pol de Mont, Het schildersboek: Vlaamsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, ed. Max Rooses, vol. 5.[4]
Art and architecture
Births
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- 21 May â Suzanne Lilar, writer (died 1992)
- 3 November â Leopold III of Belgium (died 1983)
- 25 December â Marie-Noële Kelly, traveller and hostess (died 1995)
Deaths
- 20 January â Zénobe Gramme (born 1826), electrical engineer
- 18 February â Egide Walschaerts (born 1820), inventor
- 30 May â Victor D'Hondt (born 1841), lawyer and mathematician
- 22 October â Alfred Ronner (born 1851), artist
