1893 in Belgium

Events in the year 1893 in Belgium.

Incumbents Monarch - Leopold II Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert

Events

12–18 April – general strike to demand universal manhood suffrage. 15 April – Social-Christian Christene Volkspartij founded 12 August – First Paris–Brussels road cycle race

Publications Periodicals Annuaire de la section d'art et d'enseignement de la maison du Peuple Van Nu en Straks begins publicationAnne-Marie Musschoot, "Van Nu en Straks: A Flemish Art Nouveau Periodical, 1893-1901" Dutch Crossing, 35 (1988), pp. 45-57

Reference and reports Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 12. Chemins de fer, postes, télégraphes, téléphones et marine. Compte rendu des opérations pendant l'année 1892 (Brussels, J. Goemaere) Frans de Potter, Vlaamsche bibliographie: Lijst der boeken, vlug- en tijdschriften, muziekwerken, kaarten, platen en tabellen, in België van 1830 tot 1890 verschenen (Ghent, Alfons Siffer)Vlaamsche bibliographie on Google Books. Arthur Van Gehuchten, L'Anatomie du système nerveux de l'homme (Leuven)Second edition (1897) on Gallica

Literature Cyriel Buysse, Het recht van de sterkste Guido Gezelle, Tijdkrans Prosper de Haulleville, Portraits et silhouettes, vol. 2 Émile Verhaeren, Les campagnes hallucinées (Brussels, Edmond Deman)Emile Verhaeren, Poems, selected, translated and introduced by Will Stone (Todmorden, Arc, 2014), p. 24.

Art and architecture

Les XX disband La Libre Esthétique founded

Buildings Victor Horta, Hôtel Tassel completed

Paintings Eugène Laermans, Evening strike

Performances 17 May – Premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande

Births 2 January – Félix Sellier, cyclist (died 1965) 12 January – Victor Lenaers, cyclist (died 1968) 20 February – Gabrielle Petit, patriot (died 1916) 23 March Robert de Foy, head of the State Security Service (died 1960) René Vermandel, cyclist (died 1958) 5 April – Joseph Lefèvre, archivist (died 1977) 4 September – Robert Poulet, writer (died 1989) 13 October – René Goormaghtigh, engineer (died 1960) 23 October – Jean Absil, composer (died 1974) 11 November – Paul van Zeeland, politician (died 1973) 9 December – Prosper Dezitter, collaborationist (died 1948)

Deaths 23 January – Eugène-François de Block (born 1812), artist 27 January – Alfred Belpaire (born 1820), locomotive engineer 28 January – Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (born 1829), painter 24 May – Félix Nève (born 1816), Orientalist 6 June – Théodore Bernier (born 1843), antiquarian 11 July – Eugène Simonis (born 1810), sculptor 7 November – Constant Lievens (born 1856), Jesuit priest 20 November – Léopold Harzé (born 1831), sculptor

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