Events in the year 1894 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 ...

(until 26 March),

Jules de Burlet Jules Philippe Marie de Burlet (10 April 1844 – 1 March 1897) was a Belgian Catholic Party politician. Born in Ixelles, de Burlet was educated as a lawyer. He practised law in Nivelles, where he made his home, and he served as mayor of the to ...

(starting 26 March)

Events

*February – Edouard Whettnall appointed ambassador to London. *25-26 March –

Belgian Labour Party The Belgian Labour Party ( nl, Belgische Werkliedenpartij, BWP; french: Parti ouvrier belge, POB) was the first major socialist party in Belgium. Founded in 1885, the party was officially disbanded in 1940 and superseded by the Belgian Socialist P ...

adopts the

Charter of Quaregnon The Charter of Quaregnon (french: Charte de Quaregnon, nl, Charter van Quaregnon) is a political manifesto agreed to in 1894 that formed the doctrinal basis for successive socialist parties in Belgium until 1979. In 1894, Belgian elections were, ...

*5 May – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers opens (to 5 November) *12 May – Publication of an Anglo-Belgian Agreement leasing

Bahr el Ghazal Bahr el-Ghazal (Arabic بحر الغزال , also transliterated ''Bahr al-Ghazal'', ''Baḩr al-Ghazāl'', ''Bahr el-Gazel'', or versions of these without the hyphen) may refer to two distinct places, both named after ephemeral or dry rivers. Chad ...

to the

Congo Free State ''(Work and Progress) , national_anthem = Vers l'avenir , capital = Vivi Boma , currency = Congo Free State franc , religion = Catholicism (''de facto'') , leader1 = Leopo ...

and a stretch of Congolese territory to the British. The exchange of territory was later rescinded under French and German pressure in the diplomatic build-up to the 1898

Fashoda Incident The Fashoda Incident, also known as the Fashoda Crisis ( French: ''Crise de Fachoda''), was an international incident and the climax of imperialist territorial disputes between Britain and France in East Africa, occurring in 1898. A French exped ...

. *4-11 August – International congress of applied chemistry held in Brussels and Antwerp *14 October – First Belgian general election under universal manhood suffrage. * 28 October – Provincial elections *5 November – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers ends.

Publications

Periodicals * '' Revue Néoscholastique'' begins publication. * ''

Durendal Durendal, also spelled Durandal, is the sword of Roland, a legendary paladin and partially historical officer of Charlemagne in French epic literature. It is also said to have belonged to young Charlemagne at one point, and, passing through Sarac ...

begins publication. Other * Alphonse Dubois, ''Faune des vertébrés de la Belgique: Série des oiseaux'' (Brussels, A la librairie C. Muquardt, Th. Falk Sr), vol. 2 *

Maurice Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

, ''Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et La mort de Tintagiles: trois petits drames pour marionnettes'' (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 ...

) *

Max Rooses Max Rooses (10 February 1839 – 15 July 1914) was a Belgian writer, literary critic, and curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp. Rooses was born in Antwerp, and went to school there up to 1858, after which he attended the University of ...

, ''Letterkundige studiën'' * Edmond-Louis de Taeye, ''Les artistes belges contemporains''

Art and architecture

;Exhibitions * 17 February-15 March – first exhibition of

La Libre Esthétique ''La Libre Esthétique'' ( French; "The Free Aesthetics") was an artistic society founded in 1893 in Brussels, Belgium to continue the efforts of the artists' group ''Les XX'' dissolved the same year. To reduce conflicts between artists invited or ...

in Brussels.''La Libre Esthétique: Catalogue de la première exposition à Bruxelles'' (1894
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Eugène Laermans Eugène Jules Joseph Baron Laermans (22 October 1864 – 22 February 1940) was a Belgian painter. Life He was born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. At the age of eleven, he contracted meningitis, which left him deaf and nearly mute (although some source ...

, ''The Emigrants'' *

Théo van Rysselberghe Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe (23 November 1862 – 13 December 1926) was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the twentieth century. Biography Early years Born i ...

, '' Portrait of Irma Sèthe'' Photography * Édouard Hannon, ''Matinée d'Automne'' ("Autumn Morning")

Births

*1 March —

Marguerite Lefèvre Marguerite Alice Lefèvre (1894–1967) was an academic geographer and the first woman to hold a professorship at the Catholic University of Leuven. A prize at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a street in Leuven are named in her honour. Lif ...

, geographer (died 1967) *17 July –

Georges Lemaître Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître ( ; ; 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the first to th ...

, physicist and astronomer (died 1966)

Deaths

* 22 January –

Hendrik Beyaert Hendrik Beyaert (Dutch language, Dutch) or Henri Beyaert (French language, French) (29 July 1823 – 22 January 1894) was a Belgian architect. He is considered one of the most important Belgian architects of the 19th century. Biography B ...

(born 1823), architect * 4 February –

Adolphe Sax Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (; 6 November 1814 – 4 February 1894) was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846. He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba. He played the fl ...

(born 1814), inventor of the saxophone * 27 April –

Ernest Slingeneyer Ernest Slingeneyer, Ernest Isidore Hubert Slingeneyer or Ernst Slingeneyer Jean-Baptiste Bethune Jean-Baptiste Bethune {April 25, 1821 - June 18, 1894) was a Belgian architect, artisan and designer who played a pivotal role in the Belgian and Catholic Gothic Revival movement. He was called by some the "''Pugin of Belgium''", with reference ...

(born 1821), architect * 15 August –

Ernest Baert Ernest Baert (12 August 1860 – 15 August 1894) was a Belgian soldier, explorer and colonial administrator who was active in the Congo Free State. Early years (1860–1885) Ernest Baert was born in Brussels on 12 August 1860. His parents were Po ...

(born 1860), explorer

References

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