1902 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- 6 February â Contract signed for the Belgian concession of Tianjin.
- 11 February â Police and universal suffrage demonstrators are involved in a physical altercation in Brussels.
- 18 April â Clashes in Leuven between the civic guard and demonstrators for universal manhood suffrage leave six workers dead and fourteen injured.[2]
- 25 May â Belgian general election, 1902[3][4][5]
- 15 June â Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges opens (to 5 October).
- 3 July â Prince Albert and Princess Elisabeth visit Bruges for the Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges.
- 17â25 August â "Groeninghefeesten": pageants and celebrations to mark the sixth centenary of the Battle of the Golden Spurs in Kortrijk.[6]
- 19 August â Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent, consecrates the new abbey church of Dendermonde Abbey, built in Gothic Revival style.
- 3â7 September â Fourteenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Namur.[7][8]
- 15 November â Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino fails to assassinate Leopold II.[9]
Publications
- Studies and reports
- Annuaire de la Législation du Travail, 1901 (Brussels, Ministère de l'Industrie et du Travail, 1902)
- Exhibitions
- William Henry James Weale, Exposition des Primitifs flamands et d'Art ancien (Bruges, Desclée, De Brouwer)[10]
- Scholarship
- Paul Fredericq, Corpus documentorum inquisitionis haereticae pravitatis Neerlandicae, vol. 5.[11]
- Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 1, revised edition.[12]
- Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 2.[13]
- Literature
- Stijn Streuvels, Langs de wegen
Art and architecture
Births
- 21 January â Paul Harsin, historian (died 1983)
- 3 March â Hélène Mallebrancke, civil engineer and resister (died 1940)
- 19 March â Louisa Ghijs, actress (died 1985)
- 11 July â Leo Collard, politician (died 1981)
- 21 August â Omer Becu, trade unionist (died 1982)
- 10 November â Jean Denis, collaborator (died 1992)
Deaths
- 23 November â Cornelius Van Leemputten (born 1841), painter
