1891 in Belgium

← 1890 1889 1888 1891 in Belgium → 1892 1893 1894
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1891 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1891 in Belgium .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II ^[1]
• Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert ^[2]

Events

General Boulanger's suicide in Ixelles

• 29 January – Funeral of Prince Baudouin of Belgium.
• 2–20 May – Miners' strike in Liège, spreading to other parts of Wallonia. ^[3]
• 10 May – Dock strikes in Antwerp and Ghent in support of coalminers in Wallonia. ^[4]
• 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 beggars ^[5]

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

Fernand Khnopff, I lock my door upon myself (1891)

• 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

Funeral of Prince Baudouin of Belgium, 29 January 1891

• 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

References

1. "Leopold II - king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
2. "Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert - Belgian-Flemish statesman". Encyclopedia Britannica.
3. Gita Deneckere, Les Turbulences de la Belle Époque, 1878-1905 (Brussels: Le Cri), p. 75.
4. Gita Deneckere, Les Turbulences de la Belle Époque, 1878-1905 (Brussels: Le Cri), p. 75.
5. Loi du 27 novembre 1891 pour la répression du vagabondage et de la mendicité (1893).