1895 In Belgium

Events in the year 1895 in Belgium.

Incumbents

*Monarch: Leopold II
*Prime Minister: Jules de Burlet

Events

* 24 January – Compagnie Maritime Belge founded
* 3 February – Marie-Thérèse Joniaux condemned to death for multiple poisonings
* 21 July – International choral competition in Liège opens
* 1 September – Royal Belgian Football Association founded
* 13 November – Lumière brothers demonstrate the cinematograph at the Physics Museum of the Catholic University of Leuven, one of the first such demonstrations outside France.
* 5 December – Founding committee of the Belgian Automobile Club holds first meeting in Taverne de la Régence, Place Royale, Brussels.

Publications

;Periodicals
* ''Le Vingtième Siècle'' begins publication
* ''Le Congo illustré'' ends publication

;Scholarship
* '' Biographie Nationale de Belgique'', vol. 13.
* Maurice De Wulf, ''Histoire de la Philosophie Scolastique dans les Pays-Bas et la Principauté de Liège, jusqu'à la Révolution française''
* Auguste Lameere, ''Manuel de la faune de Belgique: Animaux non insectes''
* Edmond Marchal, ''La sculpture et les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'orfèvrerie belges'' (Brussels, F. Hayez)
* Édouard van den Corput, ''L'alcoolisme, l'hérédité et la question sociale'' (1895)

;Literature
* Maurice Maeterlinck, ''Interior'', premiered at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, 15 March.Bettina Knapp, ''Maurice Maeterlinck'' (Boston, 1975), p. 83.
* Émile Verhaeren, '' Les villes tentaculaires'' (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
* Émile Verhaeren, ''Almanach'', a collection of verse with illustrations by Théo van Rysselberghe

Art and Architecture

;Painting
* Prix de Rome: Jean Delville

;Architecture
* Victor Horta, Hôtel van Eetvelde, built for Edmond van Eetvelde

Births

* undated
** Henri Smets, athlete (died 1994)
* 6 February – Jean-Pierre Vermetten, Olympic swimmer
* 13 February – Paul Nougé, poet (died 1967)
* 10 March
**Mathieu Bragard, footballer (died 1952)
**Jules Vanhevel, cyclist (died 1969)
* 9 April – Clément Doucet, pianist (died 1950)
* 19 April – Herman Roosdorp, racing driver (died 1965)
* 23 April – Robert Coppée, footballer (died 1970)
* 7 May – Adolphe Goemaere, Olympic sportsman (died 1970)
* 18 May – Herman de Gaiffier d'Hestroy, Olympic equestrian (died 1960)
* 28 May – Yvonne Hubert, pianist (died 1988)
* 5 June – August Baeyens, composer (died 1966)
* 25 June – Alice Frey, painter (died 1981)
* 24 July – Jozef Peeters, artist (died 1960)
* 17 August – Nicolas Lazarévitch, anarchist (died 1975)
* 29 August – Jeanne Cappe, author (died 1956)
* 18 September – Constant Janssen, pharmaceutical entrepreneur (died 1970)
* 24 September – Frans De Haes, weightlifter (died 1923)
* 7 October – Maurice Grevisse, grammarian (died 1980)
* 21 October –  Nand Geersens, broadcaster (died 1959)
* 25 October – Robert van Genechten, Dutch politician (died 1945)
* 11 November – Victor Soultanbeieff, chess master (died 1972)
* 14 November – Léopold Buffin de Chosal, pentathlete (died 1947)
* 25 November – Marcel Gustin, Olympic athlete (died 1977)
* 27 November – Eugène Gabriels, Olympic rower (died 1969)
* 29 November – Henri Liebaert, politician (died 1977)
* 30 December – August De Boodt, politician (died 1986)

Deaths

* 8 February – Jean-François Portaels (born 1818), painter
* 24 May – Joseph Quinaux (born 1822), painter
* 16 June – Alfred van der Smissen (born 1823), general
* 15 September – Alfred Verwee (born 1838), painter
* 16 September – Alphonse Balat (born 1818), architect
* 17 November – Jean-Édouard Bommer (born 1829), botanist

References

{{Year in Europe, 1895

1890s in Belgium