1883 in Belgium
# 1883 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1883 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Leopold II
* Prime Minister: Walthère Frère-Orban

## Events

* 20 March – Belgium a signatory to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.
* 5 to 10 June – Third International Eucharistic Congress held in Liège, with over 10,000 in attendance.
* 15 October – Inauguration of Palais de Justice, Brussels.
* 28 October – Founding meeting of the art association Les XX.
* 6 December – Steamer Plantyn abandoned in the North Atlantic after being damaged in a storm.

## Publications

* Frans Jozef Peter van den Branden, Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche Schilder-school.
* Émile Verhaeren, Les Flamandes

## Art and architecture

### Paintings

* Fernand Khnopff, Listening to Schumann; Portrait de Mademoiselle Van der Hecht

### Buildings

* Joseph Poelaert, Palais de Justice, Brussels

## Births

* 18 February – Jacques Ochs, artist and fencer (died 1971)
* 21 March – Jules Van Nuffel, priest and musicologist (died 1953)
* 1 April – Albert-Édouard Janssen, banker (died 1966)
* 3 April – Frits Van den Berghe, painter (died 1939)
* 22 April – Joseph Jacquemotte, anarcho-syndicalist (died 1936)
* 13 May – Caroline Lacroix, royal mistress (died 1948)
* 24 June – Arthur Devère, film actor (died 1961)
* 29 June – Fernand Bosmans, fencer (died 1960)
* 3 July – Pierre Charles (Jesuit) (died 1954)
* 25 July – Félix de Roy, astronomer (died 1942)
* 27 July – Fernand Verhaegen, artist (died 1975)
* 2 September – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (died 1963)
* 4 September – Karel Candael, composer (died 1948)
* 8 September – Théodore Pilette, racing driver (died 1921)
* 12 December – Leon van der Essen, historian (died 1963)
* 16 December – Cyrille van Hauwaert, cyclist (died 1974)
* 23 December – Hubert Pierlot, politician (died 1963)
* 30 December – Marie Gevers, novelist (died 1975)

## Deaths

* 5 February – Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim (born 1808), banker
* 1 May – Octave Pirmez (born 1832), author
* 16 May – Ferdinand de Braekeleer the Elder (born 1792), painter
* 15 September – Joseph Plateau (born 1801), mathematician
* 29 November – Elisabeth Dieudonné Vincent (born 1798), Haitian-born businesswoman
* 3 December – André Jolly (born 1799), politician
