1897 in Belgium
# 1897 in Belgium

Events in the year 1897 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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

## Events

* 10 May – Brussels International Exposition opens
* 28 July – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom gives notification of his country's intention to withdraw from the Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation (1862), to come into effect one year later.
* 16 August – Belgian Antarctic Expedition sets sail from Antwerp
* 8 November – Brussels International Exposition closes
* 16 December – Charles-Gustave Walravens appointed bishop of Tournai

## Publications

### Exhibitions

* Camille Lemonnier, Alphonse Wauters, and Armand Heins, Le Palais de la ville de Bruxelles à l'Exposition universelle de 1897

### Books

* Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 14.
* Grant Allen, Cities of Belgium (London, G. Richards)
* Guido Gezelle, Rijmsnoer
* Gustave Kahn, Limbes de lumières, illustrated by Georges Lemmen (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
* Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Les Origines de la psychologie contemporaine
* Emile Vandervelde, Le question agraire en Belgique

## Births

* 1 January – Albert De Vleeschauwer, politician (died 1971)
* 24 January – Fernand Ledoux, actor (died 1994)
* 29 January – Honoré Vlamynck, footballer (died 1974)
* 11 April – Paul Graeffe, bobsledder (died 1957)
* 7 May – Marcel Maas, pianist (died 1950)
* 11 May – Joris Minne, artist (died 1988)
* 2 June – Léon Trulin, intelligence agent (died 1915)
* 8 June – Domien Jacob, gymnast (died 1984)
* 19 June – Ernest Casimir-Lambert, bobsledder (died 1931)
* 1 August – Camil Van Hulse, pianist (died 1988)
* 25 August – Léoncé Oleffe, athlete (died 1972)
* 12 September – Albert Wyckmans, cyclist (died 1995)
* 4 November – Paul Finet, politician (died 1965)
* 5 November – Paul Kronacker, politician (died 1994)
* 24 November
   * Lode Craeybeckx, politician (died 1976)
   * Pierre Devaux, athlete (died 1984)
* 5 December – Gust De Muynck, broadcaster (died 1986)
* 18 December – Fernand Collin, banker (died 1990)

## Deaths

* 13 February – Gustave Den Duyts (born 1850), artist
* 1 March – Jules de Burlet (born 1844), politician
* 12 July – Félix Godefroid (born 1818), harpist
* 23 September – Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux (born 1826), bishop of Tournai
* 22 November – Frans Verhas (born 1827), painter
