1891 in Belgium
# 1891 in Belgium

Events in the year 1891 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Leopold II
* Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert

## Events

* 29 January – Funeral of Prince Baudouin of Belgium.
* 2–20 May – Miners' strike in Liège, spreading to other parts of Wallonia.
* 10 May – Dock strikes in Antwerp and Ghent in support of coalminers in Wallonia.
* 16–22 August – International Socialist Labor Congress of Brussels
* 31 August – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 enters into force.
* 30 September – French politician Georges Ernest Boulanger commits suicide at the tomb of his mistress in Ixelles Cemetery.
* 27 November – New law against tramps and beggars

## Publications

### Periodicals

* Gazet van Antwerpen begins publication
* Het Volk begins publication
* Annales de la Société d'archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 5.
* La Jeune Belgique, vol. 10.

### Literature

* Jules Destrée, L'oeuvre lithographique de Odilon Redon (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
* Maurice Maeterlinck, Les Sept Princesses
* Stephane Mallarmé, Pages (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
* John of Ruusbroec, L'Ornement des noces spirituelles, translated by Maurice Maeterlinck
* Émile Verhaeren, Les flambeaux noirs (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

## Art and architecture

* L'Essor disbands

### Paintings

* James Ensor, The Man of Sorrows
* Fernand Khnopff, I lock my door upon myself
* Théo van Rysselberghe, Maria Sèthe at the Harmonium

## Births

* 19 January – Joseph De Craecker, fencer (died 1975)
* 29 January – Henri Van Lerberghe, cyclist (died 1966)
* 18 February – Henry George, cyclist (died 1976)
* 25 March – Filip De Pillecyn, writer (died 1962)
* 2 April – Marthe Crick-Kuntziger, museum curator (died 1963)
* 3 May – Henri Rolin, politician (died 1973)
* 20 June – Jeanne Hebbelynck, artist (died 1959)
* 24 June – René Pinchart, gymnast (died 1970)
* 10 August – Andries Mac Leod, mathematician (died 1977)
* 7 September – Georges Cuisenaire, educator (died 1975)
* 12 September – Jean-François Martial, actor (died 1977)
* 18 November – Marie Delcourt, classicist (died 1979)
* 23 November – Pierre Ryckmans, governor of Belgian Congo (died 1959)
* 9 December
   * Léon Bekaert, industrialist and politician (died 1961)
   * John Langenus, football referee (died 1952)
* 29 December – Alphonse Van Mele, gymnast (died 1972)

## Deaths

* 4 January – Pierre de Decker (born 1812), politician
* 23 January – Prince Baudouin of Belgium (born 1869)
* 28 January – Eduard Wallays (born 1813), artist
* 4 March – Camille Coquilhat (born 1853), colonial officer
* 20 May – Paul Émile de Puydt (born 1810), writer
* 31 July – Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (born 1814), glass painter
* 17 August – Jean-Joseph Thonissen (born 1817), legal historian and politician
* 16 November – Camille van Camp (born 1834), painter
* 2 December – Caroline Boussart (born 1808), feminist
* 13 December – Jean Stas (born 1813), analytical chemist
* 20 December – Victor Jacobs (born 1838), politician

### Date to be determined

* Chantal Coché (born 1826), industrialist
