1894 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1894 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold II
- Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert (until 26 March), Jules de Burlet (starting 26 March)
Events
- February – Edouard Whettnall appointed ambassador to London.
- 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 The exchange of territory was later rescinded under French and German pressure in the diplomatic build-up to the 1898 Fashoda Incident.
- 4-11 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 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, Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et La mort de Tintagiles: trois petits drames pour marionnettes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
- 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.
- 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
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