1884 in Belgium

← 1883 1882 1881 1884 in Belgium → 1885 1886 1887
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See also:	Other events of 1884 List of years in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1884 in the Kingdom of Belgium .

Incumbents

Auguste Beernaert (1829–1912), Prime Minister 1884–1894

• Monarch: Leopold II ^[1]
• Prime Minister:
  • until 16 June: Walthère Frère-Orban
  • 16 June–26 October: Jules Malou
  • starting 26 October: Auguste Marie François Beernaert

Events

• Belgian State Railways Type 25 taken into service
• 15 May – North Sea Fisheries Convention (signed 1882) comes into effect
• 16 June – Jules Malou replaces Walthère Frère-Orban as Prime Minister
• 25 May – Provincial elections
• June and July – Belgian general election, 1884 ^[2]
• 5 July – Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property obtains legal force
• 26 October – Auguste Beernaert replaces Jules Malou as Prime Minister
• End of the First School War between confessional Catholic Party and secularist Liberal Party

Publications

Frontispiece from Bruxelles à travers les âges (3 vols., 1884)

Periodicals

• Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique, vol. 28. ^[3]
• La Belgique Horticole , vol. 34, edited by Édouard Morren. ^[4]
• Bibliographie de la Belgique , vol. 10. ^[5]
• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez). ^[6]
• La Jeune Belgique , vol. 3. ^[7]
• Jurisprudence du port d'Anvers, vol. 29. ^[8]
• Le Magasin littéraire et scientifique begins publication.
• Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, vol. 45. ^[9]
• Messager des sciences historiques . ^[10]
• Le Mouvement Géographique begins publication.
• Le Patriote begins publication.

Books

• Maria Doolaeghe, Jongste dichtbundel
• Louis Hymans, Bruxelles à travers les âges (3 vols., Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe) ^[11]
• Isidoor Teirlinck and Reimond Stijns, Arm Vlaanderen
• Léon Vanderkindere, L'Université de Bruxelles: Notice historique, faite à la demande du Conseil d'Administration (Brussels, P. Weissenbruch) ^[12]

Art and architecture

Photograph of the first exhibition of Les XX (1884)

Exhibitions

• February – First exhibition of Les XX opens ^[13]

Paintings

• Théo van Rysselberghe, Four Breakwaters
• James Ensor, The Rooftops of Ostend

Births

• 19 January – Valerius Geerebaert, Redemptorist (did 1957)
• 17 February – Arthur Vanderpoorten, politician (died 1945)
• 21 March – Paul Demasy, playwright (died 1974)
• 26 May – Félix Goblet d'Alviella, newspaperman (died 1957)
• 3 June – Julius Raes, Capuchin archivist (died 1961)
• 8 June – Paul Ermens, colonial officer (died 1957)
• 13 June – Jean Brusselmans, painter (died 1953)
• 6 September – Julien Lahaut, communist (died 1950)
• 22 November – Oscar Sevrin, missionary (died 1975)
• 30 November – Yvan Goor, motorcyclist (died 1958)
• 10 December – Robert Gillon, politician (died 1972)
• 20 December – Jean-Baptiste Sipido, anarchist (died 1959)

Deaths

Maria Doolaeghe (1803–1884), Flemish writer

• 7 April – Maria Doolaeghe (born 1803), poet
• 22 May – Louis Hymans (born 1829), writer and politician
• 10 July – Henri Delmotte (born 1822), writer
• 23 July – Louis Galesloot (born 1821), archivist
• 5 November – Edouard d'Huart (born 1800), politician
• 1 December – Louis-Gustave Amelot (born 1857), engineer
• 4 December – Frédéric Faber (born 1837), bibliophile
• 28 December – Edmond Hanssens (born 1843), colonial administrator

References

1. "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. Sternberger, D, Vogel, B & Nohlen, D (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa - Erster Halbband, p105
3. "Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique". 1864.
4. "La Belgique horticole : Journal des jardins". 1851.
5. "Bibliographie de la Belgique, ou catalogue général de l'imprimerie et de la librairie belges". 1884.
6. "Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique". 1884.
7. "La Jeune Belgique". 1884.
8. "Jurisprudence du port d'Anvers". 1884.
9. "Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des ..., Volume 45". l'Académie.
10. "Messager des sciences historiques, ou, Archives des arts et de la bibliographie de Belgique".
11. vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3
12. L'Université de Bruxelles on Google Books.
13. Michel Draguet, Fernand Khnopff (Brussels, Fonds Mercator, 2018), p. 8.