1896 in Belgium

none 1896 Events in the year 1896 in Belgium. Incumbents Monarch: Leopold IILeopold II king of Belgium https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leopold-II-king-of-Belgium Encyclopedia Britannica 26 July 2018 en Prime Minister: Jules de Burlet (until 25 February), Paul de Smet de Naeyer (from 25 February)Dumont Georges-Henri Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours 2017 Le Cri 9782390010555 326 https://books.google.com/books?id=sy42DgAAQBAJ&pg=PT326 fr Events 7 January – Official founding of the Belgian Automobile Club.Donald Weber, De blijde intrede van de automobiel in België 1895-1940 (Ghent, Academia Press, 2010), p. 53. 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.Eric Van Schoonenberghe, Alcohol tijdens de negentiende eeuw: Biotechnologie in volle evolutie (Snoeck, 2012), p. 28. 25 April – Murder of Delphina-Angelica Borée in Brussels.Het Nieuwsblad https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20190729_04533048 Moordmysteries: de moord op een steenrijke Brusselse weduwe in 1896 29 July 2019 Cedric Lagast nl 14 May – Parish of St Anthony of Padua established in newly expanded Heirnis section of Ghent. 5 July – Belgian general election, 1896Mackie Thomas T. Rose Richard The International Almanac of Electoral History 2016 Springer 9781349098514 17 https://books.google.com/books?id=ysS-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA17 en 26 July – Provincial elections Publications Pol de Mont, Dit zijn Vlaamsche wondersprookjes Maurice De Wulf, Études Historiques sur l'Esthétique de Saint Thomas d'AquinÉtudes Historiques at Internet Archive. Maurice Maeterlinck, Le Trésor des humbles Édouard van den Corput, Bruxellensia: Croquis artistiques et historiques Emile Vandervelde, L'Evolution industrielle et le collectivismeEnglish translation published in 1901 as Collectivism and Industrial Evolution Émile Verhaeren, Les heures claires (Brussels, Edmond Deman) Art and architecture thumb|Fernand Khnopff, Caress of the Sphinx (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium) 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), politicianWalthère Frère-Orban, prime minister of Belgium https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walthere-Frere-Orban Encyclopedia Britannica 26 July 2018 en 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 1896 Category:1890s in Belgium