1893 in Belgium

← 1892 1891 1890 1893 in Belgium → 1894 1895 1896
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1893 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1893 in Belgium .

Incumbents

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

Events

Eugène Laermans, Evening strike (1893)

• 12–18 April – general strike to demand universal manhood suffrage.
• 15 April – Social-Christian Christene Volkspartij founded
• 12 August – First Paris–Brussels road cycle race

Publications

Periodicals

• Annuaire de la section d'art et d'enseignement de la maison du Peuple ^[3]
• Van Nu en Straks begins publication ^[4]

Reference and reports

• Biographie Nationale de Belgique , vol. 12.
• Chemins de fer, postes, télégraphes, téléphones et marine. Compte rendu des opérations pendant l'année 1892 (Brussels, J. Goemaere) ^[5]
• Frans de Potter, Vlaamsche bibliographie: Lijst der boeken, vlug- en tijdschriften, muziekwerken, kaarten, platen en tabellen, in België van 1830 tot 1890 verschenen (Ghent, Alfons Siffer) ^[6]
• Arthur Van Gehuchten, L'Anatomie du système nerveux de l'homme (Leuven) ^[7]

Literature

• Cyriel Buysse, Het recht van de sterkste
• Guido Gezelle, Tijdkrans
• Prosper de Haulleville, Portraits et silhouettes, vol. 2
• Émile Verhaeren, Les campagnes hallucinées (Brussels, Edmond Deman) ^[8]

Art and architecture

Stairway in the Hôtel Tassel

• Les XX disband
• La Libre Esthétique founded

Buildings

• Victor Horta, Hôtel Tassel completed

Paintings

• Eugène Laermans, Evening strike

Performances

• 17 May – Premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande

Births

• 2 January – Félix Sellier, cyclist (died 1965)
• 12 January – Victor Lenaers, cyclist (died 1968)
• 20 February – Gabrielle Petit, patriot (died 1916)
• 23 March
  • Robert de Foy, head of the State Security Service (died 1960)
  • René Vermandel, cyclist (died 1958)
• 4 September – Robert Poulet, writer (died 1989)
• 13 October – René Goormaghtigh, engineer (died 1960)
• 23 October – Jean Absil, composer (died 1974)
• 11 November – Paul van Zeeland, politician (died 1973)
• 9 December – Prosper Dezitter, collaborationist (died 1948)

Deaths

• 23 January – Eugène-François de Block (born 1812), artist
• 27 January – Alfred Belpaire (born 1820), locomotive engineer
• 28 January – Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (born 1829), painter
• 24 May – Félix Nève (born 1816), Orientalist
• 11 July – Eugène Simonis (born 1810), sculptor
• 7 November – Constant Lievens (born 1856), Jesuit priest
• 20 November – Léopold Harzé (born 1831), sculptor

References

1. "Leopold II - king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
2. "Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert - Belgian-Flemish statesman". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
3. "Digithèque de l'ULB : Périodiques numérisés".
4. Anne-Marie Musschoot, "Van Nu en Straks: A Flemish Art Nouveau Periodical, 1893-1901" Dutch Crossing , 35 (1988), pp. 45-57
5. "Chemins de fer, postes, télégraphes, téléphones et marine. Compte rendu des opérations pendant l'année". Bruxelles.
6. Vlaamsche bibliographie on Google Books.
7. Second edition (1897) on Gallica
8. Emile Verhaeren, Poems, selected, translated and introduced by Will Stone (Todmorden, Arc, 2014), p. 24.