Events in the year 1890 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch - Leopold II Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert
Events 25 May – Provincial elections 27 May – Belgian National Day is made a legal holiday 10 June – Belgian general election, 1890 2 July – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 (anti-slavery convention) 21 July – first observance of 21 July as Belgian National Day; king lays the foundation stone of the Arcade du Cinquantenaire in Brussels. 16 to 21 August – Seventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Antwerp, with an estimated 150,000 participants.C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65. establishment of Sint-Leocollege in Bruges
Publications Sylvain Balau, Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique (1815-1884), 3rd edition, with a preface by Charles Woeste (Liège, L. Grandmont-Donders, and Ghent, A. Siffer). Dom Bernard, Geschiedenis der Benedictijner Abdij van Affligem (Ghent, A. Siffer) Prosper de Haulleville, Les nonciatures apostoliques en Belgique depuis 1830 Paul Fredericq, The Study of History in Holland and Belgium, translated by Henrietta Leonard (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press) Iwan Gilkin, La Damnation de l'artiste (Brussels, Edmond Deman) Alexis Marie Gochet, Les Congolais: leurs moeurs et usages. Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo (Liège, H. Dessain) Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke, La Lutte de l'Irlande (Lille, Société de Saint-Augustin)
Births 1 January – Alphonse Six, footballer (died 1914) 5 March – Ann Codee, actress (died 1961) 25 June – Camille Tihon, archivist (died 1972) 10 October – Jan Vanderheyden, film-maker (died 1961) 13 November – Oscar Blansaer, Olympic athlete (died 1962)
Deaths 2 March – Eudore Pirmez (born 1830), politician 22 March – Désiré de Haerne (born 1804), priest 11 May – Eugène Albert (born 1816), clarinet maker 23 May – Louis Artan (born 1837), artist 5 July – Pierre Van Humbeeck (born 1829), politician 3 September – Willem Linnig the Younger (born 1842), artist 22 September – Joanna Courtmans (born 1811), writer 23 October – Charles Verlat (born 1824), painter 16 November – Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler (born 1819), philologist 19 December – César De Paepe (born 1841), syndicalist 21 December – Eugène Anspach (born 1833), governor of the national bank
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