Events in the year 1891 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold II Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert
Events
29 January – Funeral of Prince Baudouin of Belgium. 2–20 May – Miners' strike in Liège, spreading to other parts of Wallonia.Gita Deneckere, Les Turbulences de la Belle Époque, 1878-1905 (Brussels: Le Cri), p. 75. 10 May – Dock strikes in Antwerp and Ghent in support of coalminers in Wallonia.Gita Deneckere, Les Turbulences de la Belle Époque, 1878-1905 (Brussels: Le Cri), p. 75. 16–22 August – International Socialist Labor Congress of Brussels 31 August – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 enters into force. 8–12 September – Catholic Congress in Mechelen 30 September – French politician Georges Ernest Boulanger commits suicide at the tomb of his mistress in Ixelles Cemetery. 27 November – New law against tramps and beggarsLoi du 27 novembre 1891 pour la répression du vagabondage et de la mendicité (1893).
Publications Periodicals Gazet van Antwerpen begins publication Het Volk begins publication Annales de la Société d'archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 5. La Jeune Belgique, vol. 10.
Literature Jules Destrée, L'oeuvre lithographique de Odilon Redon (Brussels, Edmond Deman) Maurice Maeterlinck, Les Sept Princesses Stephane Mallarmé, Pages (Brussels, Edmond Deman) John of Ruusbroec, L'Ornement des noces spirituelles, translated by Maurice Maeterlinck Émile Verhaeren, Les flambeaux noirs (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Art and architecture
L'Essor disbands
Paintings James Ensor, The Man of Sorrows Fernand Khnopff, I lock my door upon myself Théo van Rysselberghe, Maria Sèthe at the Harmonium
Births 19 January – Joseph De Craecker, fencer (died 1975) 29 January – Henri Van Lerberghe, cyclist (died 1966) 18 February – Henry George, cyclist (died 1976) 25 March – Filip De Pillecyn, writer (died 1962) 2 April – Marthe Crick-Kuntziger, museum curator (died 1963) 3 May – Henri Rolin, politician (died 1973) 20 June – Jeanne Hebbelynck, artist (died 1959) 24 June – René Pinchart, gymnast (died 1970) 10 August – Andries Mac Leod, mathematician (died 1977) 7 September – Georges Cuisenaire, educator (died 1975) 12 September – Jean-François Martial, actor (died 1977) 18 November – Marie Delcourt, classicist (died 1979) 23 November – Pierre Ryckmans, governor of Belgian Congo (died 1959) 9 December Léon Bekaert, industrialist and politician (died 1961) John Langenus, football referee (died 1952) 29 December – Alphonse Van Mele, gymnast (died 1972)
Deaths
4 January – Pierre de Decker (born 1812), politician 23 January – Prince Baudouin of Belgium (born 1869) 28 January – Eduard Wallays (born 1813), artist 4 March – Camille Coquilhat (born 1853), colonial officer 20 May – Paul Émile de Puydt (born 1810), writer 31 July – Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (born 1814), glass painter 17 August – Jean-Joseph Thonissen (born 1817), legal historian and politician 28 October – Louis Roersch (born 1831), philologist 16 November – Camille van Camp (born 1834), painter 2 December – Caroline Boussart (born 1808), feminist 13 December – Jean Stas (born 1813), analytical chemist 20 December – Victor Jacobs (born 1838), politician
Date to be determined Chantal Coché (born 1826), industrialist
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