1884 in Belgium
# 1884 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1884 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Leopold II
* Prime Minister:
   * until 16 June: Walthère Frère-Orban
   * 16 June–26 October: Jules Malou
   * starting 26 October: Auguste Marie François Beernaert

## Events

* Belgian State Railways Type 25 taken into service
* 15 May – North Sea Fisheries Convention (signed 1882) comes into effect
* 16 June – Jules Malou replaces Walthère Frère-Orban as Prime Minister
* 25 May – Provincial elections
* June and July – Belgian general election, 1884
* 5 July – Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property obtains legal force
* 26 October – Auguste Beernaert replaces Jules Malou as Prime Minister
* End of the First School War between confessional Catholic Party and secularist Liberal Party

## Publications

### Periodicals

* Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique, vol. 28.
* La Belgique Horticole, vol. 34, edited by Édouard Morren.
* Bibliographie de la Belgique, vol. 10.
* Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez).
* La Jeune Belgique, vol. 3.
* Jurisprudence du port d'Anvers, vol. 29.
* Le Magasin littéraire et scientifique begins publication.
* Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, vol. 45.
* Messager des sciences historiques.
* Le Mouvement Géographique begins publication.
* Le Patriote begins publication.

### Books

* Maria Doolaeghe, Jongste dichtbundel
* Louis Hymans, Bruxelles à travers les âges (3 vols., Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe)
* Isidoor Teirlinck and Reimond Stijns, Arm Vlaanderen
* Léon Vanderkindere, L'Université de Bruxelles: Notice historique, faite à la demande du Conseil d'Administration (Brussels, P. Weissenbruch)

## Art and architecture

### Exhibitions

* February – First exhibition of Les XX opens

### Paintings

* Théo van Rysselberghe, Four Breakwaters
* James Ensor, The Rooftops of Ostend

## Births

* 19 January – Valerius Geerebaert, Redemptorist (did 1957)
* 17 February – Arthur Vanderpoorten, politician (died 1945)
* 21 March – Paul Demasy, playwright (died 1974)
* 26 May – Félix Goblet d'Alviella, newspaperman (died 1957)
* 3 June – Julius Raes, Capuchin archivist (died 1961)
* 8 June – Paul Ermens, colonial officer (died 1957)
* 13 June – Jean Brusselmans, painter (died 1953)
* 6 September – Julien Lahaut, communist (died 1950)
* 22 November – Oscar Sevrin, missionary (died 1975)
* 30 November – Yvan Goor, motorcyclist (died 1958)
* 10 December – Robert Gillon, politician (died 1972)
* 20 December – Jean-Baptiste Sipido, anarchist (died 1959)

## Deaths

* 7 April – Maria Doolaeghe (born 1803), poet
* 22 May – Louis Hymans (born 1829), writer and politician
* 10 July – Henri Delmotte (born 1822), writer
* 23 July – Louis Galesloot (born 1821), archivist
* 5 November – Edouard d'Huart (born 1800), politician
* 1 December – Louis-Gustave Amelot (born 1857), engineer
* 4 December – Frédéric Faber (born 1837), bibliophile
* 28 December – Edmond Hanssens (born 1843), colonial administrator
