Events in the year 1900 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold II Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer
Events 4 April – Jean-Baptiste Sipido shoots at the Prince of Wales in Brussels-North railway stationPaul F. State, Historical Dictionary of Brussels (Lanham MD, 2015), p. xxvi. 27 May – Belgian general election, 1900 3 June – Provincial elections 2 October – Wedding of Albert I of Belgium and Elisabeth of Bavaria.
Publications Periodicals Annales de la Société d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 14 (Brussels, Alfred Vromant)
Scholarship Maurice De Wulf, Histoire de la Philosophie Médiévale (Leuven, Paris and Brussels)Histoire de la Philosophie Médiévale at Internet Archive Karl Hanquet, Étude critique sur la Chronique de Saint-Hubert dite Cantatorium Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 1. Max Rooses (ed.), Het schildersboek: Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, vol. 4, Emile Vandervelde, Le propriété foncière en Belgique
Literature Émile Verhaeren, Le cloître (Brussels, Edmond Deman) Émile Verhaeren, Petites légendes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Arts and architecture
Louis Tytgadt, Beguines at Work Flori van Acker, The May Queen
Births 13 March – Andrée Bosquet, painter (died 1980) 1 April – Albert Ayguesparse, writer (died 1996) 22 May – Vina Bovy, operatic soprano (died 1983) 19 September – Marguerite Massart, engineer (died 1979) 25 December – Karel Maes, artist (died 1974)
Deaths 4 August – Étienne Lenoir (born 1822), engineer 22 November – Georges Brugmann (born 1829), banker
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