Events in the year 1890 in

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

- Leopold II *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

Auguste Marie François Beernaert Auguste Marie François Beernaert (26 July 1829 – 6 October 1912) was the prime minister of Belgium from October 1884 to March 1894, and the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Life Born in Ostend in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands 1829, h ...

Events

* 25 May – Provincial elections * 27 May –

Belgian National Day Belgian National Day ( nl, Nationale feestdag van België; french: Fête nationale belge; german: Belgischer Nationalfeiertag) is the national holiday of Belgium commemorated annually on 21 July. It is one of the country's ten public holidays a ...

is made a legal holiday * 10 June – Belgian general election, 1890 * 2 July –

Brussels Conference Act of 1890 The Brussels Conference Act of 1890 (full title: Convention Relative to the Slave Trade and Importation into Africa of Firearms, Ammunition, and Spiritous Liquors) was a collection of anti-slavery measures signed in Brussels on 2 July 1890 (and wh ...

(anti-slavery convention) * 21 July – first observance of 21 July as

; king lays the foundation stone of the

Arcade du Cinquantenaire The Cinquantenaire Arcade (french: Arcade(s) du Cinquantenaire, nl, Arcade(s) van het Jubelpark) is a memorial arcade in the centre of the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark in Brussels, Belgium. The centrepiece is a monumental triple arch kno ...

in Brussels. * 16 to 21 August – Seventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Antwerp, with an estimated 150,000 participants. * establishment of Sint-Leocollege in

Bruges Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the countr ...

Publications

* Sylvain Balau, ''Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique (1815-1884)'', 3rd edition, with a preface by

Charles Woeste Charles, Count Woeste (26 February 1837 – 5 April 1922), was a Belgian Roman Catholic politician of German descent. He was born in Brussels, the son of Edouard Woeste, who was of Prussian descent who became a naturalized Belgian on 15 January ...

(Liège, L. Grandmont-Donders, and Ghent, A. Siffer). * Prosper de Haulleville, ''Les nonciatures apostoliques en Belgique depuis 1830'' * Paul Fredericq and Henrietta Leonard, ''The Study of History in Holland and Belgium'' (Johns Hopkins University Press) *

Iwan Gilkin Iwan Gilkin (7 January 1858 – 28 September 1924) was a Belgian poet. Born in Brussels, Gilkin was associated with the Symbolist school in Belgium. His works include ''Les ténèbres'' (1892, featuring a frontispiece by Odilon Redon) and ''Le ...

, ''La Damnation de l'artiste'' (Brussels,

Edmond Deman Edmond Deman (1857–1918) was a publisher, antiquarian bookseller and prints dealer in fin-de-siècle Brussels.Adrienne and Luc Fontainas, "Deman, Edmond", ''Nouvelle Biographie Nationale''vol. 4(Brussels, 1997), pp. 109-112. Life Deman was born ...

) * Alexis Marie Gochet, ''Les Congolais: leurs moeurs et usages. Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo'' (Liège, H. Dessain) * Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke, ''La Lutte de l'Irlande'' (Lille, Société de Saint-Augustin)

Births

* 1 January –

Alphonse Six Alphonse Léopold Bauduin Six (1 January 1890 – 19 August 1914) was a Belgian football player. Six was born in Bruges and is mainly remembered for his goal-scoring capacities. In his period with Cercle Brugge he scored 93 times in only 89 mat ...

, footballer * 5 March –

Ann Codee Ann Codee (born Anna Marie Vannuefflin, 5 March 1890 – 18 May 1961) was a Belgian actress with numerous hit films on her résumé, such as '' Can-Can'', ''Kiss Me Kate'', and ''Interrupted Melody''. Born in Antwerp, Belgium, her name was s ...

, actress (died 1961) * 25 June –

Camille Tihon Camille Tihon (1890–1972) was a Belgian archivist and historian. Life Tihon was born in Remicourt, Belgium, on 25 June 1890. He studied at the University of Liège under Eugène Hubert and Karl Hanquet, graduating with a doctorate for a thesis o ...

, archivist (died 1972) * 10 October –

Jan Vanderheyden Jan Vanderheyden (10 October 1890 – 27 March 1961) was a Belgian film producer and director known for the Flemish comedies he made in the 1930s and 1940s. During the German occupation of Belgium between 1940 and 1944, he produced four of the ...

, 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 Eugène Albert (April 26, 1816 – May 11, 1890) was a Belgian woodwind instrument maker, primarily known for his clarinets, based in Brussels. His work started around 1839, and his sons, Jean-Baptiste (1845–99), Jacques (1849–1918), and E.J. ...

(born 1816), clarinet maker * 23 May – Louis Artan (born 1837), artist * 5 July –

Pierre Van Humbeeck Pierre Edouard Van Humbeeck (Brussels, 17 May 1829-Brussels, 5 July 1890) was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician. He was a member of the city council of Brussels, the Belgian parliament and minister. He was the first Belgian minister of edu ...

(born 1829), politician * 3 September – Willem Linnig the Younger (born 1842), artist * 22 September –

Joanna Courtmans Joanna Courtmans, born Joanna-Desideria Berchmans (6 September 1811 – 22 September 1890), was a Flemish writer. Biography Her father was mayor of Oudegem, and she spent her first years at the local village school, later at the age of 9, she wa ...

(born 1811), writer * 23 October – Charles Verlat (born 1824), painter * 16 November – Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler (born 1819), philologist * 19 December –

César De Paepe César De Paepe (12 July 1841 in Ostend, Belgium – 1890 in Cannes, France) was a Belgian medical doctor, socialist activist and a prominent proponent of syndicalism whose work strongly influenced the Industrial Workers of the World and the syndi ...

(born 1841), syndicalist * 21 December – Eugène Anspach (born 1833), governor of the national bank

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