1898 in Belgium
# 1898 in Belgium

Events in the year 1898 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Leopold II
* Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer

## Events

* 18 April - Coremans-De Vriendt law gives Dutch and French equal legal status in Belgian public life.
* 22 May - Belgian general election, 1898
* 5 June – Provincial elections
* 23 June – Opening of the Château royal d'Ardenne as a luxury hotel run by the Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels.
* 13–17 July – Eleventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Brussels.
* 27 July – Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation comes to an end, due to notification of the United Kingdom's withdrawal a year earlier.

## Publications

* Léon Bloy, Mendiant ingrat (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
* J. Nyssens-Hart, The Outer Port and the Inner Port of Bruges (Brussels, A> Lesigne)
* Max Rooses (ed.), Het schildersboek: Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, vol. 1, vol. 2.
* Emile Vandervelde, Le Socialisme en Belgique
* Émile Verhaeren, Les aubes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

## Art and architecture

### Paintings

* Eugène Laermans, The Drunkard

### Buildings

* Victor Horta, Hôtel Solvay

## Births

* 8 February - André Fierens, footballer (d. 1972)
* 5 March – Lucien Leboutte, air chief (d. 1988)
* 17 March - Raymond Decorte, cyclist (d. 1972)

## Deaths

* 12 January – Jean Jules Linden (born 1817), botanist
* 14 January – Polydore de Keyser (born 1832), Lord Mayor of London
* 25 January – François Roffiaen (born 1820), painter
* 22 March – Pieter De Rudder (born 1822), labourer
* 25 April – Prosper de Haulleville (born 1830), newspaperman
* 1 May – Alphonse Wauters (born 1817), archivist
* 3 June – Emma De Vigne (born 1850), painter
* 9 June – Joseph Jaquet (born 1822), sculptor
* 13 July – Émile Banning (born 1836), government adviser
* 23 August – Félicien Rops (born 1833), illustrator
* 11 September – Adolphe Samuel (born 1824), composer
* 30 September – Léon Mignon (born 1847), sculptor
* 25 December – Georges Rodenbach (born 1855), author
