Events in the year 1894 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold II Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert (until 26 March), Jules de Burlet (starting 26 March)
Events
February – Edouard Whettnall appointed ambassador to London.J. Scott-Keltie (ed.), The Statesman's Yearbook (London and New York, 1895), p. 392. 25-26 March – Belgian Labour Party adopts the Charter of Quaregnon 5 May – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers opens (to 5 November) 12 May – Publication of an Anglo-Belgian Agreement leasing Bahr el Ghazal to the Congo Free State and a stretch of Congolese territory to the British. The exchange of territory was later rescinded under French and German pressure in the diplomatic build-up to the 1898 Fashoda Incident.M. P. Hornik, "The Anglo-Belgian Agreement of 12 May 1894", The English Historical Review, Vol. 57, No. 226 (1942), pp. 227-243. 4-11 August – International congress of applied chemistry held in Brussels and Antwerp 14 October – First Belgian general election under universal manhood suffrage. 28 October – Provincial elections 5 November – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers ends.
Publications Periodicals Revue Néoscholastique begins publication. Durendal begins publication.
Other Alphonse Dubois, Faune des vertébrés de la Belgique: Série des oiseaux (Brussels, A la librairie C. Muquardt, Th. Falk Sr), vol. 2 Maurice Maeterlinck, Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et La mort de Tintagiles: trois petits drames pour marionnettes (Brussels, Edmond Deman) Max Rooses, Letterkundige studiën Edmond-Louis de Taeye, Les artistes belges contemporains
Art and architecture
Exhibitions 17 February-15 March – first exhibition of La Libre Esthétique in Brussels.La Libre Esthétique: Catalogue de la première exposition à Bruxelles (1894) On Internet Archive
Paintings Eugène Laermans, The Emigrants Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Irma Sèthe
Photography Édouard Hannon, Matinée d'Automne ("Autumn Morning")
Births 1 March — Marguerite Lefèvre, geographer (died 1967) 17 July – Georges Lemaître, physicist and astronomer (died 1966)
Deaths 22 January – Hendrik Beyaert (born 1823), architect 4 February – Adolphe Sax (born 1814), inventor of the saxophone 27 April – Ernest Slingeneyer (born 1820), painter 18 June – Jean-Baptiste Bethune (born 1821), architect 15 August – Ernest Baert (born 1860), explorer
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