1902 in Belgium
# 1902 in Belgium

Events in the year 1902 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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

## Events

* 6 February – Contract signed for the Belgian concession of Tianjin.
* 18 April – Clashes in Leuven between the civic guard and demonstrators for universal manhood suffrage leave six workers dead and fourteen injured.
* 25 May – Belgian general election, 1902
* 15 June – Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges opens (to 5 October).
* 3 July – Prince Albert and Princess Elisabeth visit Bruges for the Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges.
* 17–25 August – "Groeninghefeesten": pageants and celebrations to mark the sixth centenary of the Battle of the Golden Spurs in Kortrijk.
* 19 August – Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent, consecrates the new abbey church of Dendermonde Abbey, built in Gothic Revival style.
* 3–7 September – Fourteenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Namur.
* 15 November – Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino fails to assassinate Leopold II.

## Publications

### Studies and reports

* Annuaire de la Législation du Travail, 1901 (Brussels, Ministère de l'Industrie et du Travail, 1902)

### Exhibitions

* William Henry James Weale, Exposition des Primitifs flamands et d'Art ancien (Bruges, Desclée, De Brouwer)

### Scholarship

* Paul Fredericq, Corpus documentorum inquisitionis haereticae pravitatis Neerlandicae, vol. 5.
* Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 1, revised edition.
* Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 2.

### Literature

* Stijn Streuvels, Langs de wegen

## Art and architecture

### Buildings

* Gothic Revival Abbey Church in Dendermonde

## Births

* 21 January – Paul Harsin, historian (died 1983)
* 3 March — Hélène Mallebrancke, civil engineer and resister (died 1940)
* 19 March – Louisa Ghijs, actress (died 1985)
* 11 July – Leo Collard, politician (died 1981)
* 21 August – Omer Becu, trade unionist (died 1982)
* 10 November – Jean Denis, collaborator (died 1992)

## Deaths

* 23 November – Cornelius Van Leemputten (born 1841), painter
