1896 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1896 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1896 in Belgium .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II ^[1]
• Prime Minister: Jules de Burlet (until 25 February), Paul de Smet de Naeyer (from 25 February) ^[2]

Events

• 7 January – Official founding of the Belgian Automobile Club. ^[3]
• 15 April – Law on the making and importation of alcohol replaces duty on the capacity of distillery equipment (adopted in 1833) with a duty on the proportional alcohol content of the distilled product. ^[4]
• 25 April – Murder of Delphina-Angelica Borée in Brussels. ^[5]
• 14 May – Parish of St Anthony of Padua established in newly expanded Heirnis section of Ghent.
• 5 July – Belgian general election, 1896 ^[6]
• 26 July – Provincial elections

Publications

• Pol de Mont, Dit zijn Vlaamsche wondersprookjes
• Maurice De Wulf, Études Historiques sur l'Esthétique de Saint Thomas d'Aquin ^[7]
• Maurice Maeterlinck, Le Trésor des humbles
• Édouard van den Corput, Bruxellensia: Croquis artistiques et historiques
• Emile Vandervelde, L'Evolution industrielle et le collectivisme ^[8]
• Émile Verhaeren, Les heures claires (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

Art and architecture

Paintings

• Fernand Khnopff, Caress of the Sphinx

Births

• 11 February – René Joannes-Powell, athlete (died 1940)
• 22 February – Paul van Ostaijen, poet (died 1928)
• 10 April – Jean-Baptiste Piron, soldier (died 1974)
• 14 August – Julien Lehouck, athlete (died 1944)
• 10 October – Omer Corteyn, athlete (died 1979)

Deaths

• 2 January – Walthère Frère-Orban (born 1812), politician ^[9]
• 9 January – Guillaume Vogels (born 1836), painter
• 6 February – Julie Dorus-Gras (born 1805), soprano
• 3 March – Constant de Deken (born 1852), missionary
• 6 May – Constantin Heger (born 1809), educator
• 7 June – Florent Crabeels (born 1829), painter
• 11 August – Xavier De Cock (born 1818), painter
• 9 December – Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (born 1819), genealogist
• 13 December – Xavier de Theux de Meylandt et Montjardin (born 1838), bibliophile

References

1. "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
2. Dumont, Georges-Henri (2017). Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (in French). Le Cri. p. 326. ISBN   9782390010555.
3. Donald Weber, De blijde intrede van de automobiel in België 1895-1940 (Ghent, Academia Press, 2010), p. 53.
4. Eric Van Schoonenberghe, Alcohol tijdens de negentiende eeuw: Biotechnologie in volle evolutie (Snoeck, 2012), p. 28.
5. Lagast, Cedric (29 July 2019). "Moordmysteries: de moord op een steenrijke Brusselse weduwe in 1896". Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch).
6. Mackie, Thomas T.; Rose, Richard (2016). The International Almanac of Electoral History. Springer. p. 17. ISBN   9781349098514.
7. Études Historiques at Internet Archive.
8. English translation published in 1901 as Collectivism and Industrial Evolution
9. "Walthère Frère-Orban, prime minister of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 26 July 2018.