1890 in Belgium

none May 2018 1890 thumb|Map of Belgium and Luxembourg from Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas (1890) Events in the year 1890 in Belgium. Incumbents Monarch - Leopold IILeopold II - king of Belgium https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leopold-II-king-of-Belgium Encyclopedia Britannica 15 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 15 May 2018 en Events 25 May – Provincial elections 27 May – Belgian National Day is made a legal holiday 10 June – Belgian general election, 1890 2 July – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 (anti-slavery convention) 21 July – first observance of 21 July as Belgian National Day; king lays the foundation stone of the Arcade du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.http://www.irismonument.be/fr.Bruxelles_Extension_Est.Parc_du_Cinquantenaire.A016.html Arcade et hémicycle, Parc du Cinquantenaire Inventaire du patrimoine architectural Brussels Capital Region fr 16 to 21 August – Seventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Antwerp, with an estimated 150,000 participants.C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65. establishment of Sint-Leocollege in Bruges Publications Sylvain Balau, Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique (1815-1884), 3rd edition, with a preface by Charles Woeste (Liège, L. Grandmont-Donders, and Ghent, A. Siffer).https://archive.org/details/soixantedixansdh00bala/page/n8 Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique (1815-1884) 1890 Internet Archive Dom Bernard, Geschiedenis der Benedictijner Abdij van Affligem (Ghent, A. Siffer) https://books.google.com/books?id=liykWo8pMMcC Geschiedenis der Benedictijner Abdij van Affligem 1890 Google Books Prosper de Haulleville, Les nonciatures apostoliques en Belgique depuis 1830 Paul Fredericq, The Study of History in Holland and Belgium, translated by Henrietta Leonard (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press)https://books.google.com/books?id=gFyc6O9p8JsC The Study of History in Holland and Belgium 1890 Google Books Iwan Gilkin, La Damnation de l'artiste (Brussels, Edmond Deman) Alexis Marie Gochet, Les Congolais: leurs moeurs et usages. Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo (Liège, H. Dessain)https://archive.org/details/lescongolaisleur00goch/page/n6 Les Congolais : Leurs moeurs et usages : Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo 1890 Internet Archive Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke, La Lutte de l'Irlande (Lille, Société de Saint-Augustin)https://archive.org/details/laluttedelirland00kerv/page/n7 La lutte de l'Irlande 1890 Internet Archive Births 1 January – Alphonse Six, footballer (died 1914) 5 March – Ann Codee, actress (died 1961) 25 June – Camille Tihon, archivist (died 1972) 10 October – Jan Vanderheyden, film-maker (died 1961) 13 November – Oscar Blansaer, Olympic athlete (died 1962) Deaths 2 March – Eudore Pirmez (born 1830), politician 22 March – Désiré de Haerne (born 1804), priest 11 May – Eugène Albert (born 1816), clarinet maker 23 May – Louis Artan (born 1837), artist 5 July – Pierre Van Humbeeck (born 1829), politician 3 September – Willem Linnig the Younger (born 1842), artist 22 September – Joanna Courtmans (born 1811), writer 23 October – Charles Verlat (born 1824), painter 16 November – Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler (born 1819), philologist 19 December – César De Paepe (born 1841), syndicalist 21 December – Eugène Anspach (born 1833), governor of the national bank References 1890 Category:1890s in Belgium