Events in the year 1901 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold II Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer
Events
8 June – Customs depot in Antwerp burns out 25 July – Bishop Antoon Stillemans consecrates Church of St Anthony of Padua, Ghent 2 August – 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 (Medieval Towns Series; London, J.M. Dent)At Internet Archive. Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 1.
Studies Eugène Demolder, Constantin Meunier (Brussels, Edmond Deman) Pol de Mont, Het schildersboek: Vlaamsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, ed. Max Rooses, vol. 5.
Art and architecture
Paintings James Ensor, The Roofs of Ostend Théo van Rysselberghe, La Promenade
Births 21 May – Suzanne Lilar, writer (died 1992) 3 November – Leopold III of Belgium (died 1983) 25 December – Marie-Noële Kelly, traveller and hostess (died 1995)
Deaths
20 January – Zénobe Gramme (born 1826), electrical engineer 18 February – Egide Walschaerts (born 1820), inventor 8 March – Peter Benoit (born 1834), composer 30 May – Victor D'Hondt (born 1841), lawyer and mathematician 7 July – Euphrosine Beernaert (born 1831), landscape painter 24 August – Victor Joseph Doutreloux (born 1837), bishop of Liège 22 October – Alfred Ronner (born 1851), artist
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