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1891
Events in the year 1891 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Monarch: Leopold IILeopold II - king of Belgium https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leopold-II-king-of-Belgium Encyclopedia Britannica 28 May 2018 en
Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François BeernaertAuguste-Marie-François Beernaert - Belgian-Flemish statesman https://www.britannica.com/biography/Auguste-Marie-Francois-Beernaert Encyclopedia Britannica en
Events
thumb|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.Gita Deneckere, Les Turbulences de la Belle Époque, 1878-1905 (Brussels: Le Cri), p. 75.
10 May – Dock strikes in Antwerp and Ghent in support of coalminers in Wallonia.Gita Deneckere, Les Turbulences de la Belle Époque, 1878-1905 (Brussels: Le Cri), p. 75.
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 beggarsLoi du 27 novembre 1891 pour la répression du vagabondage et de la mendicité (1893).
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
thumb|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
thumb|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
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