1898 in Belgium

none 1898 Events in the year 1898 in Belgium. Incumbents Monarch: Leopold IILeopold II - king of Belgium https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leopold-II-king-of-Belgium Encyclopedia Britannica 14 May 2018 en Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de NaeyerGouvernement de Smet de Naeyer I http://www.histoire-des-belges.be/listes/les-gouvernements-de-la-belgique-unitaire/gouvernement-de-smet-de-naeyer-1896-1899-i www.histoire-des-belges.be fr-fr Events thumb|Luxury hotel Château royal d'Ardenne, opened 23 June 1898 18 April - Coremans-De Vriendt law gives Dutch and French equal legal status in Belgian public life.Koll Johannes Geeraedts Loek Berteloot Armand Missine Lut Nationale Bewegungen in Belgien Waxmann Verlag 9783830964650 112 https://books.google.com/books?id=7JEPPYMhsNkC&pg=PA112 de 22 May - Belgian general election, 1898Mackie 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 5 June – Provincial elections 23 June – Opening of the Château royal d'Ardenne as a luxury hotel run by the Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels. 13–17 July – Eleventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Brussels.C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65. 27 July – Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation comes to an end, due to notification of the United Kingdom's withdrawal a year earlier. Publications Léon Bloy, Mendiant ingrat (Brussels, Edmond Deman) J. Nyssens-Hart, The Outer Port and the Inner Port of Bruges (Brussels, A> Lesigne)Online at Flandrica.be Max Rooses (ed.), Het schildersboek: Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, vol. 1,https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/roos015schi03_01/ Max Rooses, Het schildersboek. Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw. Deel 1 · DBNL vol. 2.https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/roos015schi04_01/ Max Rooses, Het schildersboek. Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw. Deel 2 · DBNL Emile Vandervelde, Le Socialisme en Belgique Émile Verhaeren, Les aubes (Brussels, Edmond Deman) Art and architecture thumb|Eugène Laermans, The Drunkard (1898) Paintings Eugène Laermans, The Drunkard Buildings Victor Horta, Hôtel Solvay Births 8 February - André Fierens, footballer (d. 1972)André FIERENS - Olympic Football https://www.olympic.org/andre-fierens International Olympic Committee 14 May 2018 en 15 June 2016 5 March – Lucien Leboutte, air chief (d. 1988) 17 March - Raymond Decorte, cyclist (d. 1972)Raymond Decorte https://www.procyclingstats.com/mob/rider/raymond-decorte www.procyclingstats.com 14 May 2018 14 May 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180514141941/https://www.procyclingstats.com/mob/rider/raymond-decorte dead 9 December – Marie-Louise Hénin, resister (d. 1944) Deaths 12 January – Jean Jules Linden (born 1817), botanist 14 January – Polydore de Keyser (born 1832), Lord Mayor of London 25 January – François Roffiaen (born 1820), painter 22 March – Pieter De Rudder (born 1822), labourer 25 April – Prosper de Haulleville (born 1830), newspaperman 1 May – Alphonse Wauters (born 1817), archivist 3 June – Emma De Vigne (born 1850), painter 9 June – Joseph Jaquet (born 1822), sculptor 13 July – Émile Banning (born 1836), government adviser 23 August – Félicien Rops (born 1833), illustrator 11 September – Adolphe Samuel (born 1824), composer 30 September – Léon Mignon (born 1847), sculptor 25 December – Georges Rodenbach (born 1855), author References 1898 Category:1890s in Belgium