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See also:	Other events of 1896 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1896 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II^[1]
• Prime Minister: Jules de Burlet (until 25 February), Paul de Smet de Naeyer (from 25 February)^[2]

Events

• 7 January – Official founding of the Belgian Automobile Club.^[3]
• 15 April – Law on the making and importation of alcohol replaces duty on the capacity of distillery equipment (adopted in 1833) with a duty on the proportional alcohol content of the distilled product.^[4]
• 25 April – Murder of Delphina-Angelica Borée in Brussels.^[5]
• 5 July – Belgian general election, 1896^[6]
• 26 July – Provincial elections

Publications

• Pol de Mont, Dit zijn Vlaamsche wondersprookjes
• Maurice De Wulf, Études Historiques sur l'Esthétique de Saint Thomas d'Aquin^[7]
• Maurice Maeterlinck, Le Trésor des humbles
• Édouard van den Corput, Bruxellensia: Croquis artistiques et historiques
• Emile Vandervelde, L'Evolution industrielle et le collectivisme^[8]
• Émile Verhaeren, Les heures claires (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

Art and architecture

Paintings

• Fernand Khnopff, Caress of the Sphinx

Births

• 11 February – René Joannes-Powell, athlete (died 1940)
• 22 February – Paul van Ostaijen, poet (died 1928)
• 10 April – Jean-Baptiste Piron, soldier (died 1974)
• 14 August – Julien Lehouck, athlete (died 1944)
• 10 October – Omer Corteyn, athlete (died 1979)

Deaths

• 2 January – Walthère Frère-Orban (born 1812), politician^[9]
• 9 January – Guillaume Vogels (born 1836), painter
• 6 February – Julie Dorus-Gras (born 1805), soprano
• 3 March – Constant de Deken (born 1852), missionary
• 6 May – Constantin Héger (born 1809), educator
• 7 June – Florent Crabeels (born 1829), painter
• 11 August – Xavier De Cock (born 1818), painter
• 9 December – Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (born 1819), genealogist