1894 in Belgium

none 1894 Events in the year 1894 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: Auguste Marie François Beernaert (until 26 March), Jules de Burlet (starting 26 March)Dumont Georges-Henri Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours 2017 Le Cri 978-2-39001-055-5 326 https://books.google.com/books?id=sy42DgAAQBAJ&pg=PT326 fr Events thumb February – Edouard Whettnall appointed ambassador to London.J. Scott-Keltie (ed.), The Statesman's Yearbook (London and New York, 1895), p. 392. 25-26 March – Belgian Labour Party adopts the Charter of Quaregnon 5 May – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers opens (to 5 November) 12 May – Publication of an Anglo-Belgian Agreement leasing Bahr el Ghazal to the Congo Free State and a stretch of Congolese territory to the British. The exchange of territory was later rescinded under French and German pressure in the diplomatic build-up to the 1898 Fashoda Incident.M. P. Hornik, "The Anglo-Belgian Agreement of 12 May 1894", The English Historical Review, Vol. 57, No. 226 (1942), pp. 227-243. 4-11 August – International congress of applied chemistry held in Brussels and AntwerpCongrès international de chimie appliquée, Bruxelles-Anvers, 4-11 août 1894 https://books.google.com/books?id=dV0SAAAAYAAJ 1894 Sachs François 14 October – First Belgian general election under universal manhood suffrage.Mackie Thomas T. Rose Richard The International Almanac of Electoral History 2016 Springer 978-1-349-09851-4 17 https://books.google.com/books?id=ysS-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA17 en 28 October – Provincial elections 5 November – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers ends. Publications Periodicals Revue Néoscholastique begins publication.https://www.persee.fr/issue/phlou_0776-5541_1894_num_1_1 Mercier Désiré La Philosophie Néo-Scolastique Revue néo-scolastique 1894 1 1 Durendal begins publication.http://digitheque.ulb.ac.be/fr/digitheque-revues-litteraires-belges/periodiques-numerises/index.html#c12762 Périodiques numérisés dans le cadre de l'Action de Recherche Concertée Durendal: Revue catholique d'art et de littérature (1894-1914; 1921) Université libre de Bruxelles 2019-09-28 2017-02-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20170227064924/http://digitheque.ulb.ac.be/fr/digitheque-revues-litteraires-belges/periodiques-numerises/index.html#c12762 dead Other Alphonse Dubois, Faune des vertébrés de la Belgique: Série des oiseaux (Brussels, A la librairie C. Muquardt, Th. Falk Sr), vol. 2https://archive.org/details/faunedesvertdela02dubo/page/n8 Faune des vertde la Belgique 1887 Bruxelles, C. Muquardt Maurice Maeterlinck, Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et La mort de Tintagiles: trois petits drames pour marionnettes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)https://archive.org/details/alladineetpalom00maetgoog/page/n8 Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et la mort de Tintagiles: Trois petits drames pour marionnettes 1894 Bruxelles, E. Deman Max Rooses, Letterkundige studiën Edmond-Louis de Taeye, Les artistes belges contemporains Art and architecture thumb|Eugène Laermans, The Emigrants (1894) thumb|Édouard Hannon, Matinée d'Automne (1894) Exhibitions 17 February-15 March – first exhibition of La Libre Esthétique in Brussels.La Libre Esthétique: Catalogue de la première exposition à Bruxelles (1894) On Internet Archive Paintings Eugène Laermans, The Emigrants Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Irma Sèthe Photography Édouard Hannon, Matinée d'Automne ("Autumn Morning") Births 1 March — Marguerite Lefèvre, geographer (died 1967) 17 July – Georges Lemaître, physicist and astronomer (died 1966) Deaths 22 January – Hendrik Beyaert (born 1823), architect 4 February – Adolphe Sax (born 1814), inventor of the saxophone 27 April – Ernest Slingeneyer (born 1820), painter 18 June – Jean-Baptiste Bethune (born 1821), architect 15 August – Ernest Baert (born 1860), explorer References 1894 Category:1890s in Belgium