1881 in Belgium

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Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1881 List of years in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1881 in the Kingdom of Belgium .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II ^[1]
• Prime Minister:Walthère Frère-Orban

Events

• 10 May – Princess Stéphanie of Belgium marries Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, in the Augustinian Church, Vienna.
• 8 September – Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux performs the canonical coronation of Our Lady of Tongre in Chièvres, mandated in a papal brief of Pope Leo XIII.

Publications

Periodicals

• L'Art Moderne begins publication. ^[2]

Books

• Exposition de l'art ancien au Pays de Liège: Catalogue officiel (Liège, L. Grandmont-Donders) ^[3]
• A Handbook for Travellers in Holland and Belgium (London, John Murray). ^[4]
• Alfred Giron, Le droit administratif de la Belgique (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe) ^[5]
• François Nizet, Voyage de Bruxelles à Aix-la-Chapelle: Excursions de Sa Majesté la Reine des Belges (Brussels) ^[6]

Art and architecture

Halles Saint-Géry in Brussels

Buildings

• Adolphe Vanderheggen, Halles Saint-Géry (Brussels)

Births

• 15 January – Maurice Corneil de Thoran, musician (died 1953)
• 6 February – Huib Hoste, architect (died 1957)
• 28 February – Geo Verbanck, sculptor (died 1961)
• 17 March – Raoul Daufresne de la Chevalerie, sportsman and soldier (died 1967)
• 12 March – Henri Grégoire, scholar and translator (died 1964)
• 12 April – François Poels, trade unionist (died 1926)
• 28 July – Léon Spilliaert, artist (died 1946)

Deaths

• 6 June – Henri Vieuxtemps (born 1820), composer
• 27 July – François-Joseph Scohy (born 1831), archaeologist
• 7 November – Auguste Vander Meersch (born 1810), biographer
• 12 November – Jan Michiel Ruyten (born 1813), artist
• 28 December – André-Eugène Pirson (born 1817), banker and politician

References

1. "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. René Fayt. "Résumé". Périodiques numérisés dans le cadre de l'Action de Recherche Concertée. Université libre de Bruxelles.
3. "Exposition de l'art ancien au Pays de Liège Catalogue officiel. 1881". L. Grandmont-Donders , impr. 1881.
4. On Google Books
5. vol. 1, vol. 2
6. "Voyage de Bruxelles a aix-la-chapelle". 1881.