Events in the year 1898 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold II Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer
Events
18 April - Coremans-De Vriendt law gives Dutch and French equal legal status in Belgian public life. 22 May - Belgian general election, 1898 5 June – Provincial elections 23 June – Opening of the Château royal d'Ardenne as a luxury hotel run by the Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels. 13–17 July – Eleventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Brussels.C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65. 27 July – Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation comes to an end, due to notification of the United Kingdom's withdrawal a year earlier.
Publications Léon Bloy, Mendiant ingrat (Brussels, Edmond Deman) J. Nyssens-Hart, The Outer Port and the Inner Port of Bruges (Brussels, A> Lesigne)Online at Flandrica.be Max Rooses (ed.), Het schildersboek: Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, vol. 1, vol. 2. Emile Vandervelde, Le Socialisme en Belgique Émile Verhaeren, Les aubes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Art and architecture
Paintings Eugène Laermans, The Drunkard Buildings Victor Horta, Hôtel Solvay
Births 8 February - André Fierens, footballer (d. 1972) 5 March – Lucien Leboutte, air chief (d. 1988) 17 March - Raymond Decorte, cyclist (d. 1972) 9 December – Marie-Louise Hénin, resister (d. 1944)
Deaths 12 January – Jean Jules Linden (born 1817), botanist 14 January – Polydore de Keyser (born 1832), Lord Mayor of London 25 January – François Roffiaen (born 1820), painter 22 March – Pieter De Rudder (born 1822), labourer 25 April – Prosper de Haulleville (born 1830), newspaperman 1 May – Alphonse Wauters (born 1817), archivist 3 June – Emma De Vigne (born 1850), painter 9 June – Joseph Jaquet (born 1822), sculptor 13 July – Émile Banning (born 1836), government adviser 23 August – Félicien Rops (born 1833), illustrator 11 September – Adolphe Samuel (born 1824), composer 30 September – Léon Mignon (born 1847), sculptor 25 December – Georges Rodenbach (born 1855), author
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