1894 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1894 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold II[1]
 - Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert (until 26 March), Jules de Burlet (starting 26 March)[2]
 
Events

- February – Edouard Whettnall appointed ambassador to London.[3]
 - 25-26 March – Belgian Labour Party adopts the Charter of Quaregnon
 - 5 May – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers opens (to 5 November)
 - 12 May – Publication of an Anglo-Belgian Agreement leasing Bahr el Ghazal to the Congo Free State 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 The exchange of territory was later rescinded under French and German pressure in the diplomatic build-up to the 1898 Fashoda Incident.[4]
 - 4-11 August – International congress of applied chemistry held in Brussels and Antwerp[5]
 - 14 October – First Belgian general election under universal manhood suffrage.[6]
 - 28 October – Provincial elections
 - 5 November – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers ends.
 
Publications
Periodicals
Other
- Alphonse Dubois, Faune des vertébrés de la Belgique: Série des oiseaux (Brussels, A la librairie C. Muquardt, Th. Falk Sr), vol. 2[9]
 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et La mort de Tintagiles: trois petits drames pour marionnettes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)[10]
 - Max Rooses, Letterkundige studiën
 - Edmond-Louis de Taeye, Les artistes belges contemporains
 
Art and architecture


- Exhibitions
 
- 17 February-15 March – first exhibition of La Libre Esthétique in Brussels.[11]
 
Paintings
- Eugène Laermans, The Emigrants
 - Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Irma Sèthe
 
Photography
- Édouard Hannon, Matinée d'Automne ("Autumn Morning")
 
Births
- 1 March — Marguerite Lefèvre, geographer (died 1967)
 - 17 July – Georges Lemaître, physicist and astronomer (died 1966)
 
Deaths
- 22 January – Hendrik Beyaert (born 1823), architect
 - 4 February – Adolphe Sax (born 1814), inventor of the saxophone
 - 27 April – Ernest Slingeneyer (born 1820), painter
 - 18 June – Jean-Baptiste Bethune (born 1821), architect
 - 15 August – Ernest Baert (born 1860), explorer
 
References
- ^ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
 - ^ Dumont, Georges-Henri (2017). Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (in French). Le Cri. p. 326. ISBN 978-2-39001-055-5.
 - ^ J. Scott-Keltie (ed.), The Statesman's Yearbook (London and New York, 1895), p. 392.
 - ^ M. P. Hornik, "The Anglo-Belgian Agreement of 12 May 1894", The English Historical Review, Vol. 57, No. 226 (1942), pp. 227-243.
 - ^ Sachs, François (1894). Congrès international de chimie appliquée, Bruxelles-Anvers, 4-11 août 1894.
 - ^ Mackie, Thomas T.; Rose, Richard (2016). The International Almanac of Electoral History. Springer. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-349-09851-4.
 - ^ Mercier, Désiré (1894). "La Philosophie Néo-Scolastique". Revue néo-scolastique. 1 (1).
 - ^ "Durendal: Revue catholique d'art et de littérature (1894-1914; 1921)". Périodiques numérisés dans le cadre de l'Action de Recherche Concertée. Université libre de Bruxelles.
 - ^ "Faune des vertde la Belgique". Bruxelles, C. Muquardt. 1887.
 - ^ "Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et la mort de Tintagiles: Trois petits drames pour marionnettes". Bruxelles, E. Deman. 1894.
 - ^ La Libre Esthétique: Catalogue de la première exposition à Bruxelles (1894) On Internet Archive
 
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