1893 in Belgium
# 1893 in Belgium

Events in the year 1893 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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

## Events

* 12–18 April – general strike to demand universal manhood suffrage.
* 15 April – Social-Christian Christene Volkspartij founded
* 12 August – First Paris–Brussels road cycle race

## Publications

### Periodicals

* Annuaire de la section d'art et d'enseignement de la maison du Peuple
* Van Nu en Straks begins publication

### Reference and reports

* Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 12.
* Chemins de fer, postes, télégraphes, téléphones et marine. Compte rendu des opérations pendant l'année 1892 (Brussels, J. Goemaere)
* Frans de Potter, Vlaamsche bibliographie: Lijst der boeken, vlug- en tijdschriften, muziekwerken, kaarten, platen en tabellen, in België van 1830 tot 1890 verschenen (Ghent, Alfons Siffer)
* Arthur Van Gehuchten, L'Anatomie du système nerveux de l'homme (Leuven)

### Literature

* Cyriel Buysse, Het recht van de sterkste
* Guido Gezelle, Tijdkrans
* Prosper de Haulleville, Portraits et silhouettes, vol. 2
* Émile Verhaeren, Les campagnes hallucinées (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

## Art and architecture

* Les XX disband
* La Libre Esthétique founded

### Buildings

* Victor Horta, Hôtel Tassel completed

### Paintings

* Eugène Laermans, Evening strike

### Performances

* 17 May – Premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande

## Births

* 2 January – Félix Sellier, cyclist (died 1965)
* 12 January – Victor Lenaers, cyclist (died 1968)
* 20 February – Gabrielle Petit, patriot (died 1916)
* 23 March
   * Robert de Foy, head of the State Security Service (died 1960)
   * René Vermandel, cyclist (died 1958)
* 4 September – Robert Poulet, writer (died 1989)
* 13 October – René Goormaghtigh, engineer (died 1960)
* 23 October – Jean Absil, composer (died 1974)
* 11 November – Paul van Zeeland, politician (died 1973)
* 9 December – Prosper Dezitter, collaborationist (died 1948)

## Deaths

* 23 January – Eugène-François de Block (born 1812), artist
* 27 January – Alfred Belpaire (born 1820), locomotive engineer
* 28 January – Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (born 1829), painter
* 24 May – Félix Nève (born 1816), Orientalist
* 11 July – Eugène Simonis (born 1810), sculptor
* 7 November – Constant Lievens (born 1856), Jesuit priest
* 20 November – Léopold Harzé (born 1831), sculptor
