1896 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1896 in Belgium.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch: Leopold II[1]
- Prime Minister: Jules de Burlet (until 25 February), Paul de Smet de Naeyer (from 25 February)[2]
Events
[edit]- 7 January – Official founding of the Belgian Automobile Club.[3]
- 15 April – Law on the making and importation of alcohol replaces duty on the capacity of distillery equipment (adopted in 1833) with a duty on the proportional alcohol content of the distilled product.[4]
- 25 April – Murder of Delphina-Angelica Borée in Brussels.[5]
- 14 May – Parish of St Anthony of Padua established in newly expanded Heirnis section of Ghent.
- 5 July – Belgian general election, 1896[6]
- 26 July – Provincial elections
Publications
[edit]- Pol de Mont, Dit zijn Vlaamsche wondersprookjes
- Maurice De Wulf, Études Historiques sur l'Esthétique de Saint Thomas d'Aquin[7]
- Maurice Maeterlinck, Le Trésor des humbles
- Édouard van den Corput, Bruxellensia: Croquis artistiques et historiques
- Emile Vandervelde, L'Evolution industrielle et le collectivisme[8]
- Émile Verhaeren, Les heures claires (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Art and architecture
[edit]- Paintings
Births
[edit]- 11 February – René Joannes-Powell, athlete (died 1940)
- 22 February – Paul van Ostaijen, poet (died 1928)
- 10 April – Jean-Baptiste Piron, soldier (died 1974)
- 14 August – Julien Lehouck, athlete (died 1944)
- 10 October – Omer Corteyn, athlete (died 1979)
Deaths
[edit]- 2 January – Walthère Frère-Orban (born 1812), politician[9]
- 9 January – Guillaume Vogels (born 1836), painter
- 6 February – Julie Dorus-Gras (born 1805), soprano
- 3 March – Constant de Deken (born 1852), missionary
- 6 May – Constantin Héger (born 1809), educator
- 7 June – Florent Crabeels (born 1829), painter
- 11 August – Xavier De Cock (born 1818), painter
- 9 December – Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (born 1819), genealogist
- 13 December – Xavier de Theux de Meylandt et Montjardin (born 1838), bibliophile
References
[edit]- ^ "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 9782390010555.
- ^ Donald Weber, De blijde intrede van de automobiel in België 1895-1940 (Ghent, Academia Press, 2010), p. 53.
- ^ Eric Van Schoonenberghe, Alcohol tijdens de negentiende eeuw: Biotechnologie in volle evolutie (Snoeck, 2012), p. 28.
- ^ Lagast, Cedric (29 July 2019). "Moordmysteries: de moord op een steenrijke Brusselse weduwe in 1896". Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch).
- ^ Mackie, Thomas T.; Rose, Richard (2016). The International Almanac of Electoral History. Springer. p. 17. ISBN 9781349098514.
- ^ Études Historiques at Internet Archive.
- ^ English translation published in 1901 as Collectivism and Industrial Evolution
- ^ "Walthère Frère-Orban, prime minister of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
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