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Other events of 1890
List of years in Belgium

Map of Belgium and Luxembourg from Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas (1890)

Events in the year 1890 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Events

25 May – Provincial elections
27 May – Belgian National Day is made a legal holiday
10 June – Belgian general election, 1890
2 July – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 (anti-slavery convention)
21 July – first observance of 21 July as Belgian National Day; king lays the foundation stone of the Arcade du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.^[3]
16 to 21 August – Seventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Antwerp, with an estimated 150,000 participants.^[4]
establishment of Sint-Leocollege in Bruges

Publications

Sylvain Balau, Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique (1815-1884), 3rd edition, with a preface by Charles Woeste (Liège, L. Grandmont-Donders, and Ghent, A. Siffer).^[5]
Dom Bernard, Geschiedenis der Benedictijner Abdij van Affligem (Ghent, A. Siffer)^[6]
Prosper de Haulleville, Les nonciatures apostoliques en Belgique depuis 1830
Paul Fredericq, The Study of History in Holland and Belgium, translated by Henrietta Leonard (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press)^[7]
Iwan Gilkin, La Damnation de l'artiste (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Alexis Marie Gochet, Les Congolais: leurs moeurs et usages. Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo (Liège, H. Dessain)^[8]
Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke, La Lutte de l'Irlande (Lille, Société de Saint-Augustin)^[9]

Births

1 January – Alphonse Six, footballer (died 1914)
5 March – Ann Codee, actress (died 1961)
25 June – Camille Tihon, archivist (died 1972)
10 October – Jan Vanderheyden, film-maker (died 1961)
13 November – Oscar Blansaer, Olympic athlete (died 1962)

Deaths

2 March – Eudore Pirmez (born 1830), politician
22 March – Désiré de Haerne (born 1804), priest
11 May – Eugène Albert (born 1816), clarinet maker
23 May – Louis Artan (born 1837), artist
5 July – Pierre Van Humbeeck (born 1829), politician
3 September – Willem Linnig the Younger (born 1842), artist
22 September – Joanna Courtmans (born 1811), writer
23 October – Charles Verlat (born 1824), painter
16 November – Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler (born 1819), philologist
19 December – César De Paepe (born 1841), syndicalist
21 December – Eugène Anspach (born 1833), governor of the national bank

References

^ "Leopold II - king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
^ "Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert - Belgian-Flemish statesman". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
^ "Arcade et hémicycle, Parc du Cinquantenaire". Inventaire du patrimoine architectural (in French). Brussels Capital Region.
^ C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65.
^ "Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique (1815-1884)". Internet Archive. 1890.
^ "Geschiedenis der Benedictijner Abdij van Affligem". Google Books. 1890.
^ "The Study of History in Holland and Belgium". Google Books. 1890.
^ "Les Congolais : Leurs moeurs et usages : Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo". Internet Archive. 1890.
^ "La lutte de l'Irlande". Internet Archive. 1890.

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