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1886 In Belgium
The following lists events that happened during 1886 in the Belgium, Kingdom of Belgium. Incumbents *Monarchy of Belgium, Monarch: Leopold II of Belgium, Leopold II *Prime Minister of Belgium, Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert Events * 18–29 March – Belgian strike of 1886, Series of strikes and disturbances in industrial areas of Wallonia * 22 March – Law on copyright passed. * 4 April – Henri-Charles Lambrecht consecrated coadjutor bishop of Ghent * 10 April – Soldiers fire on strikers in Roux, Belgium, Roux * 23 May – Provincial elections * 8 June – Belgian general election, 1886, Partial legislative elections of 1886 * 8 July – Royal decree establishing Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Royal Flemish Academy of Language and Literature Publications ;Periodicals * ''Het Belfort'' begins publication * ''La Wallonie'' begins publication * ''Bulletin du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique'', vol. 4. ;Books * Adolphe Bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886
Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is published in New York and London. * January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck. * January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. * January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885). * February 6– 9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington. * February 8 – The West End Riots following a popular meeting in Trafalgar Square, London. * February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Verhaeren
Émile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren (; 21 May 1855 – 27 November 1916) was a Belgian poet and art critic who wrote in the French language. He was one of the founders of the school of Symbolism and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on six occasions. Early life Émile Verhaeren was born into a middle-class family in Sint-Amands, a rural commune in Belgium's Province of Antwerp. In addition to the local Dutch dialect, he adopted French as his language of culture, as was common for Belgian elites at the time. At the age of eleven, he was sent to a strict boarding school in Ghent run by Jesuits, the Jesuit College of Sainte Barbe, where he formed a friendship with Georges Rodenbach. He then studied law at the University of Leuven, where he produced his first literary efforts in a student paper, ''La Semaine'' (''The Week''), which he edited in conjunction with the opera singer Ernest van Dyck. ''La Semaine'' was suppressed by the authorities, as was its successor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886 In Belgium
The following lists events that happened during 1886 in the Belgium, Kingdom of Belgium. Incumbents *Monarchy of Belgium, Monarch: Leopold II of Belgium, Leopold II *Prime Minister of Belgium, Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert Events * 18–29 March – Belgian strike of 1886, Series of strikes and disturbances in industrial areas of Wallonia * 22 March – Law on copyright passed. * 4 April – Henri-Charles Lambrecht consecrated coadjutor bishop of Ghent * 10 April – Soldiers fire on strikers in Roux, Belgium, Roux * 23 May – Provincial elections * 8 June – Belgian general election, 1886, Partial legislative elections of 1886 * 8 July – Royal decree establishing Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, Royal Flemish Academy of Language and Literature Publications ;Periodicals * ''Het Belfort'' begins publication * ''La Wallonie'' begins publication * ''Bulletin du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique'', vol. 4. ;Books * Adolphe Bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Abeloos
Jean-François Abeloos (1819–1886) was a Belgian sculptor and art educator. Life Abeloos was born in Leuven on 14 December 1819, the son of Pierre Abeloos and Catherine Van den Put. He trained as a sculptor under Karel Geerts at the Leuven Academy of Fine Arts, as did his younger brother Michaël Abeloos.Victor Tourneur, "Abeloos (Jean-François)", '' Biographie Nationale de Belgique''vol. 30(Brussels, 1958), 3-4. In 1855, he succeeded Geerts. He was also a practising sculptor, exhibiting a Madonna and a St. Cecilia at the Brussels Salon of 1854 and working on the restoration of Leuven Town Hall around 1860. He was particularly active producing statues for churches.Edmond Marchal, ''La sculpture et les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'orfèvrerie belges'' (Brussels, F. Hayez, 1895)p. 704 He died in Leuven Leuven (, ) or Louvain (, , ; german: link=no, Löwen ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Malou
Jules Edouard Xavier Malou (19 October 1810 – July 1886) was a Belgian statesman, a leader of the clerical party. Career Malou was born at Ypres. He was a civil servant in the department of justice when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by his native constituency in 1841, and was for some time governor of the province of Antwerp. He served as Minister of Finance in the coalition ministry of Jean Baptiste, Baron Nothomb in 1844 and formed with B. T. de Theux de Meylandt a Catholic cabinet in 1846 which lost power after the Liberal victory of 1847. Malou then became a member of the senate, and his party only regained ascendancy in 1870. The distinctly clerical ministry of Baron Jules d'Anethan retired in December 1871 after serious rioting in Brussels, and Malou was the real, though not the nominal, head of the more moderate clerical administrations of de Theux and Aspremont-Lynden (1870–1878). He disavowed the sympathy of Belgian Ultramontane politicians with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Baugniet
Charles-Louis Baugniet (27 February 1814 – 5 July 1886) was a Belgian painter, lithographer and aquarellist. His name remains attached to the lithographing of portraits of famous and lesser-known figures from Belgium, France and England. They are politicians, senior officials, prominent clergy, both from the Roman Catholic and Anglican Church, industrialists, professors, artists, musicians, actors, and people from the vaudeville world. Biography He was born in Brussels and attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels during 1827–29, where he studied under Joseph Paelinck and Florent Willems. His first attempts lithography date from 1827, and his reputation grew steadily with the appearance of his first portraits in the magazine ''L'Artiste'' in 1833. He collaborated with from 1835 until 1842 in producing a series of portraits of the Belgian House of Representatives. Louis Huard finished only 6 portraits, Baugniet doing the remainder. This was followed in 1836 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Joseph Charlier
Jean-Joseph Charlier (15 April 179430 March 1886) was a Belgian artisan and revolutionary who became an iconic figure in the Belgian Revolution. His participation as an amputee in the fighting near Brussels Park during the Dutch attack on Brussels in September 1830 was widely praised, and he gained the nickname Wooden Leg (french: Jambe de Bois). Biography Charlier was born in Liège on 15 April 1794. He worked as a weaver before enlisting in the French ''Grande Armée'' and served as an artilleryman. He is believed to have been wounded at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and had one of his legs was amputated. He subsequently lived with a wooden pegleg. After the outbreak of the Belgian Revolution on 25 August 1830, Charlier was among the 250 volunteers from Liège who left on 3 September to defend Brussels against an attack by a Dutch Army under Prince Frederick. He participated in fighting during the so-called September Days (''Journées de séptembre'') from 23 to 26 September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Speelman
Edmond Speelman (1819–1886) was a Belgian ecclesiastical writer. Life Speelman was born in Ghent on 10 September 1819. He was educated at the Jesuit college in Aalst and in 1836 joined the Society of Jesus himself. He taught rhetoric at Jesuit schools in Drongen, Tournai and Namur, and then Church history in Leuven. In 1859 he left the Society but continued in the priesthood and as a teacher in Catholic schools. As a writer, he produced Church history and college drama. He retired in 1880, and died in Lede Lede may refer to: * Lead paragraph (US English), the first paragraph of a composition Places * Lede, Belgium, a municipality in Flanders * Lède, a river in France * Lede Formation, a geologic formation in Belgium People * Marquess of Lede of ... on 9 February 1886. Writings Speelman was a regular contributor to the ''Revue catholique'' and ''Précis historiques''. His other writings include: * Cornelius Smet, ''Belgique catholique: Saints et grands hommes du catholic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Wolfers
Marcel Wolfers (1886–1976) was a Belgian sculptor, and medallist, well known for his war memorials completed in the Interwar Period (1919–39). Early life Marcel Wolfers was born into a talented artistic family in Brussels. His grandfather Louis Wolfers (1820–92) and father Philippe (1858-1929) were well-established decorative artists working in a variety of media, including ceramics and metalwork as well as sculpture. By the turn of the century, Philippe had become one of the best-known Belgian decorative artists in the style called Art Nouveau, frequently collaborating with other prominent figures such as the architect Victor Horta. Marcel Wolfers matriculated to the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, where he studied under the multitalented artist Isidore de Rudder (1855-1943), who had actually also trained his father. There Marcel became proficient in sculpture, mainly in ceramics but also in other materials such as metal and stone. Career Marcel Wolfers bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Bladel
Maurice Bladel (12 February 1886 Р14 February 1968) was a Belgian writer. He won a bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'̩t̩ de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van ... in the mixed literature section of the art competitions. References 1886 births 1968 deaths 20th-century Belgian writers Olympic bronze medalists in art competitions Olympic bronze medalists for Belgium Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics 20th-century Belgian male writers Art competitors at the 1920 Summer Olympics {{Belgium-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René-Gabriel Van Den Hout
René-Gabriel van den Hout (1886–1969) was a Belgian Catholic priest and the editor of '' Revue catholique des idées et des faits'' (1921–1940). Life Van den Hout was born in Antwerp on 4 February 1886. His grandfather was a carpenter and his father was a shipping clerk.Christian Grognard, "van den Hout, René-Gabriel", '' Nouvelle Biographie Nationale''vol. 3(Brussels, 1994), pp. 327-331. He was sent to secondary school at the Jesuit college in Namur, and went on to study at the Jesuit commercial college in Antwerp but was prevented from completing his studies by ill health. In 1910, having worked for several years in the commercial sector, he felt a call to the priesthood and sought an interview with Cardinal Mercier. He spent three years studying at the Leo XIII Seminary and the Higher Institute of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven. During the German occupation of Belgium in World War I, Mercier had him produce a translation of Emil Prüm's ''Der Witwenstand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantin Meunier
Constantin Meunier (12 April 1831 – 4 April 1905) was a Belgian painter and sculptor. He made an important contribution to the development of modern art by elevating the image of the industrial worker, docker and miner to an icon of modernity. His work is a reflection of the industrial, social and political developments of his day and represents a compassionate and committed view of man and the world. Early life and education Constantin Meunier was born in the traditionally working-class area of Etterbeek in Brussels. His family was poor and suffered from the negative economic impact caused by the Belgian Revolution which had taken place the year before Meunier's birth. Meunier's father committed suicide when he was just four years old.Constantin Meu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
