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1885 In Belgium
The following lists events that happened during 1885 in the Kingdom of Belgium. Incumbents *Monarch: Leopold II *Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert Events * Belgian State Railways Type 6 steam locomotive taken into use. * 26 February – Conclusion of the Berlin Conference granting sovereignty over the Congo Basin to Leopold II. * 6 April – Inaugural meeting of the Belgian Labour Party held in Brussels. * 30 April – Leopold II receives parliamentary authorisation to assume sovereignty over the Congo Basin * 2 May – World Exhibition in Antwerp opens (to 2 November) * 1 August – Congo Free State established Publications ;Periodicals * ''Bulletin du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique'', vol. 3. ;Books * Karl Baedeker, ''Belgium and Holland: Handbook for Travellers'' * Joseph Van den Gheyn, ''Essais de mythologie et de philologie comparée'' Art and architecture ;Paintings * Fernand Khnopff, '' Portrait of Jeanne Kéfer'' * Constantin Meunier, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885
Events January–March * January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam. * January 4 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant, on Mary Gartside. * January 17 – Mahdist War in Sudan – Battle of Abu Klea: British troops defeat Mahdist forces. * January 20 – American inventor LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents a roller coaster. * January 24 – Irish rebels damage Westminster Hall and the Tower of London with dynamite. * January 26 – Mahdist War in Sudan: Troops loyal to Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad conquer Khartoum; British commander Charles George Gordon is killed. * February 5 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State, as a personal possession. * February 9 – The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii. * February 16 – Charles Dow publishes the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Jeanne Kéfer
''Portrait of Jeanne Kéfer'' is a portrait by Fernand Khnopff, painted in 1885. Currently housed and exhibited in The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. History A five-year-old Jeanne Kéfer was a daughter of the artist's friend, pianist Gustave Kéfer. The painting had been scheduled to be showcased at Les XX, 1885, in Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ..., but Khnopff had not managed to finish it, and the exhibition took place in 1886. The painting received positive critic reviews. Description Jeanne Kéfer is depicted standing on a porch before a closed door with her thumb catching the edge of her bow as she reaches into her coat. The portrait symbolizes the child's vulnerability and uncertainty in facing the outside world. The message is emphasized by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 By Country
Events January–March * January 3– 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam. * January 4 – The first successful appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant, on Mary Gartside. * January 17 – Mahdist War in Sudan – Battle of Abu Klea: British troops defeat Mahdist forces. * January 20 – American inventor LaMarcus Adna Thompson patents a roller coaster. * January 24 – Irish rebels damage Westminster Hall and the Tower of London with dynamite. * January 26 – Mahdist War in Sudan: Troops loyal to Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad conquer Khartoum; British commander Charles George Gordon is killed. * February 5 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo Free State, as a personal possession. * February 9 – The first Japanese arrive in Hawaii. * February 16 – Charles Dow publishes the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1880s In Belgium
Year 188 (CLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman Empire as the Year of the Consulship of Fuscianus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 941 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 188 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Publius Helvius Pertinax becomes pro-consul of Africa from 188 to 189. Japan * Queen Himiko (or Shingi Waō) begins her reign in Japan (until 248). Births * April 4 – Caracalla (or Antoninus), Roman emperor (d. 217) * Lu Ji (or Gongji), Chinese official and politician (d. 219) * Sun Shao, Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 241) Deaths * March 17 – Julian, pope and patriarch of Alexandria * Fa Zhen (or Gaoqing), Chinese scholar (b. AD 100) * Lucius Antistius Burrus, Roman politician (executed) * Ma Xiang, Chines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 In Belgium
The following lists events that happened during 1885 in the Kingdom of Belgium. Incumbents *Monarch: Leopold II *Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert Events * Belgian State Railways Type 6 steam locomotive taken into use. * 26 February – Conclusion of the Berlin Conference granting sovereignty over the Congo Basin to Leopold II. * 6 April – Inaugural meeting of the Belgian Labour Party held in Brussels. * 30 April – Leopold II receives parliamentary authorisation to assume sovereignty over the Congo Basin * 2 May – World Exhibition in Antwerp opens (to 2 November) * 1 August – Congo Free State established Publications ;Periodicals * ''Bulletin du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique'', vol. 3. ;Books * Karl Baedeker, ''Belgium and Holland: Handbook for Travellers'' * Joseph Van den Gheyn, ''Essais de mythologie et de philologie comparée'' Art and architecture ;Paintings * Fernand Khnopff, '' Portrait of Jeanne Kéfer'' * Constantin Meunier, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Geefs
Joseph Germain Geefs or Jozef Germain Geefs (23 December 1808 – 9 October 1885) was a Belgian sculptor. Also his six brothers Guillaume Geefs, Aloys Geefs, Jean Geefs, Théodore Geefs, Charles Geefs and Alexandre Geefs were sculptors. Life Joseph Geefs was born in Antwerp, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, going on to École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and winning the Prix de Rome in 1836. In 1841, he became a lecturer in sculpture and anatomy at the Academy in Antwerp (his pupils included Bart van Hove and Jef Lambeaux), rising to be its director in 1876. He was made an officer of the Order of Leopold in 1859 by King Leopold I. Geefs married a daughter of the architect Lodewijk Roelandt and probably produced the portrait medallion on his gravestone. Geefs died in Antwerp, aged 76, and was buried in Berchem. Honours * 1881: Grand Officer in the Order of Leopold. * Knight Commander of the Order of the White Falcon. * Officer in the Order of the O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard Agneessens
Edouard Agneessens (24 August 1842, Brussels – 20 August 1885, Uccle) was a Belgian painter born in Brussels. He studied under Jean-François Portaels from 1859 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and in 1869 won the Prix de Rome.Bénédite, Léonce (1910). ''Great painters of the XIXth century and their paintings''. Sir I. Pitman and sons. p. 290. In 1868, he was one of the founding members of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Agneessens later built up quite a career in Saint-Petersburg, but returned to Brussels in the 1880s. In the latter part of his life he suffered from a mental disorder. His works include ''Standing Male Nude'' (1870, sold 16 November 1994), ''Ladies by a Piano'' (sold 15 October 1998) and ''Bloemenstilleven'' (sold 7 December 2002). Honours * 1881: Knight in the Order of Leopold Order of Leopold may refer to: * Order of Leopold (Austria), founded in 1808 by emperor Francis I of Austria and discontinued in 1918 * Order o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Rogier
Charles Latour Rogier (; 17 August 1800 – 27 May 1885) was a Belgian liberal statesman and a leader in the Belgian Revolution of 1830. He served as the prime minister of Belgium on two occasions: from 1847 to 1852, and again from 1857 to 1868. Career Early life Rogier was descended from a family settled in the department of the Nord in France, and was born in Saint-Quentin. His father, an officer in the French army, perished in the Russian Campaign of 1812. The family then moved to the Belgian city of Liège, where the eldest son, Firmin, held a professorship. Rogier studied law at the University of Liège and was admitted to the Bar. However, he devoted himself with greater zeal to journalistic campaigns against the Dutch rule in Belgium, which had been established by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In 1824, in collaboration with his lifelong friends Paul Devaux and Joseph Lebeau, he founded the journal ''Mathieu Laensberg'' (afterwards ''Le Politique''). With its arden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Rogier
Charles Latour Rogier (; 17 August 1800 – 27 May 1885) was a Belgian liberal statesman and a leader in the Belgian Revolution of 1830. He served as the prime minister of Belgium on two occasions: from 1847 to 1852, and again from 1857 to 1868. Career Early life Rogier was descended from a family settled in the department of the Nord in France, and was born in Saint-Quentin. His father, an officer in the French army, perished in the Russian Campaign of 1812. The family then moved to the Belgian city of Liège, where the eldest son, Firmin, held a professorship. Rogier studied law at the University of Liège and was admitted to the Bar. However, he devoted himself with greater zeal to journalistic campaigns against the Dutch rule in Belgium, which had been established by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In 1824, in collaboration with his lifelong friends Paul Devaux and Joseph Lebeau, he founded the journal ''Mathieu Laensberg'' (afterwards ''Le Politique''). With its arden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri De Man
Henri (Hendrik) de Man (17 November 1885 – 20 June 1953) was a Belgian politician and leader of the Belgian Labour Party (POB-BWP). He was one of the leading socialist theoreticians of his period and, during the German occupation of Belgium during World War II, was heavily involved in collaboration. World War I and the interwar period A politically-active socialist, he nevertheless fought with the Belgian army and supported the Allied cause in World War I. After the war, he taught sociology for a time at the University of Washington, then started a workers' education school in Belgium, before moving back to Germany where he taught for some years at the University of Frankfurt. He was at odds there with the predominant, leftwing and communist movements surrounding some of his colleagues. He was allied with Eugen Diederichs, a conservative publisher in Jena. Henri de Man's antisemitism, expressed openly in his memoir of 1941, ''Après Coup'', developed during his years in Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Clifford
Camilla Antoinette Clifford (29 June 1885 – 28 June 1971), known professionally as Camille Clifford, was a Belgian-born stage actress and the most famous model for the "Gibson Girl" illustrations. Her towering coiffure and hourglass figure defined the Gibson Girl style. Early life Clifford was born on 29 June 1885 in Antwerp, Belgium, to Reynold Clifford and Matilda Ottersen. Camille was raised in Sweden, Norway and Boston. Career In the early 1900s, she won $2,000 in a magazine contest sponsored by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson to find a living version of his Gibson Girl drawings: his ideal woman. Clifford became an actress, performing in the United States from 1902 and in England from 1904. She returned from London to Boston on 3 July 1906. While generally playing walk-on, non-speaking roles, Clifford became famous nonetheless: not for her talent, but for her beauty, and in the musical show ''The Catch of the Season'' which opened at London's Vaudeville Theatre on 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raoul Van Overstraeten
Raoul François Casimir Van Overstraeten (Ath, 29 January 1885—Brussels, 30 January 1977) was a Belgian general who fought during the First World War and Second World War and, from 1938 to 1940, military adviser of king Leopold III of Belgium. Early life Van Overstraeten spoke Dutch and French fluently, since his father was a Fleming and his mother a Wallonian. Furthermore, he spoke English and German. His father was an officer at the infantry and ended his career as a general. First World War During the German invasion of Belgium, Van Overstraeten was a part of the first line in Liège. He participated in the Battle of Halen, the siege of Antwerp, and the Race to the Sea. In 1916, he went to the Belgian Congo as a volunteer and participated in the Battle of Tabora under general Charles Tombeur in German East Africa. Second World War From 1938 to 1940, Raoul Van Overstraeten was the military adviser of King Leopold III. He refused the function of chief of staff. Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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