1895 in Belgium

Events in the year 1895 in Belgium.

Incumbents Monarch: Leopold II Prime Minister: Jules de Burlet

Events

24 January – Compagnie Maritime Belge founded 3 February – Marie-Thérèse Joniaux condemned to death for multiple poisonings 22 February – Touring Club Belgium founded 21 July – International choral competition in Liège opens 1 September – Royal Belgian Football Association founded 13 November – Lumière brothers demonstrate the cinematograph at the Physics Museum of the Catholic University of Leuven, one of the first such demonstrations outside France.Guido Convents, "Les catholiques et le cinéma en Belgique (1895-1914)", in Invention of the Devil? edited by Roland Cosandey, André Gaudreault and Tom Gunning (Lausanne, 1992), p. 22. 5 December – Founding committee of the Belgian Automobile Club holds first meeting in Taverne de la Régence, Place Royale, Brussels.Donald Weber, De blijde intrede van de automobiel in België 1895-1940 (Ghent, Academia Press, 2010), p. 53.

Publications

Periodicals Le Vingtième Siècle begins publication Le Congo illustré ends publication

Scholarship Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 13. Maurice De Wulf, Histoire de la Philosophie Scolastique dans les Pays-Bas et la Principauté de Liège, jusqu'à la Révolution française (Mémoires de l'Académie royale de Belgique 51).On Persée Henri La Fontaine and Paul Otlet, Conférence bibliographique internationale, Bruxelles, 1895: Documents (Brussels)On Google Books Auguste Lameere, Manuel de la faune de Belgique: Animaux non insectes Edmond Marchal, La sculpture et les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'orfèvrerie belges (Brussels, F. Hayez) Édouard van den Corput, L'alcoolisme, l'hérédité et la question sociale (1895)

Literature Maurice Maeterlinck, Interior, premiered at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, 15 March.Bettina Knapp, Maurice Maeterlinck (Boston, 1975), p. 83. Émile Verhaeren, Les villes tentaculaires (Brussels, Edmond Deman) Émile Verhaeren, Almanach, a collection of verse with illustrations by Théo van Rysselberghe

Art and Architecture Painting Prix de Rome: Jean Delville

Architecture Victor Horta, Hôtel van Eetvelde, built for Edmond van Eetvelde

Births undated Henri Smets, athlete (died 1994) 6 February – Jean-Pierre Vermetten, Olympic swimmer 13 February – Paul Nougé, poet (died 1967) 10 March Mathieu Bragard, footballer (died 1952) Jules Vanhevel, cyclist (died 1969) 9 April – Clément Doucet, pianist (died 1950) 19 April – Herman Roosdorp, racing driver (died 1965) 23 April – Robert Coppée, footballer (died 1970) 7 May – Adolphe Goemaere, Olympic sportsman (died 1970) 18 May – Herman de Gaiffier d'Hestroy, Olympic equestrian (died 1960) 28 May – Yvonne Hubert, pianist (died 1988) 5 June – August Baeyens, composer (died 1966) 25 June – Alice Frey, painter (died 1981) 24 July – Jozef Peeters, artist (died 1960) 17 August – Nicolas Lazarévitch, anarchist (died 1975) 19 August – François Demol, footballer (died 1966) 29 August – Jeanne Cappe, author (died 1956) 18 September – Constant Janssen, pharmaceutical entrepreneur (died 1970) 24 September – Frans De Haes, weightlifter (died 1923) 7 October – Maurice Grevisse, grammarian (died 1980) 21 October – Nand Geersens, broadcaster (died 1959) 25 October – Robert van Genechten, Dutch politician (died 1945) 11 November – Victor Soultanbeieff, chess master (died 1972) 14 November – Léopold Buffin de Chosal, pentathlete (died 1947) 25 November – Marcel Gustin, Olympic athlete (died 1977) 27 November – Eugène Gabriels, Olympic rower (died 1969) 29 November – Henri Liebaert, politician (died 1977) 30 December – August De Boodt, politician (died 1986)

Deaths 29 January – Charles Soubre (born 1821), painter 8 February – Jean-François Portaels (born 1818), painter 24 May – Joseph Quinaux (born 1822), painter 16 June – Alfred van der Smissen (born 1823), general 15 September – Alfred Verwee (born 1838), painter 16 September – Alphonse Balat (born 1818), architect 17 November – Jean-Édouard Bommer (born 1829), botanist

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