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See also:	Other events of 1902 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1902 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II^[1]
• Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer

Events

• 6 February – Contract signed for the Belgian concession of Tianjin.
• 18 April – Clashes in Leuven between the civic guard and demonstrators for universal manhood suffrage leave six workers dead and fourteen injured.^[2]
• 25 May – Belgian general election, 1902^[3][4][5]
• 15 June – Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges opens (to 5 October).
• 3 July – Prince Albert and Princess Elisabeth visit Bruges for the Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges.
• 17–25 August – "Groeninghefeesten": pageants and celebrations to mark the sixth centenary of the Battle of the Golden Spurs in Kortrijk.^[6]
• 19 August –  Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent, consecrates the new abbey church of Dendermonde Abbey, built in Gothic Revival style.
• 3–7 September – Fourteenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Namur.^[7][8]
• 15 November – Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino fails to assassinate Leopold II.^[9]

Publications

Studies and reports

• Annuaire de la Législation du Travail, 1901 (Brussels, Ministère de l'Industrie et du Travail, 1902)

Exhibitions

• William Henry James Weale, Exposition des Primitifs flamands et d'Art ancien (Bruges, Desclée, De Brouwer)^[10]

Scholarship

• Paul Fredericq, Corpus documentorum inquisitionis haereticae pravitatis Neerlandicae, vol. 5.^[11]
• Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 1, revised edition.^[12]
• Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 2.^[13]

Literature

• Stijn Streuvels, Langs de wegen

Art and architecture

Buildings

• Gothic Revival Abbey Church in Dendermonde

Births

• 21 January – Paul Harsin, historian (died 1983)
• 3 March — Hélène Mallebrancke, civil engineer and resister (died 1940)
• 19 March – Louisa Ghijs, actress (died 1985)
• 11 July – Leo Collard, politician (died 1981)
• 21 August – Omer Becu, trade unionist (died 1982)
• 10 November – Jean Denis, collaborator (died 1992)

Deaths

• 23 November – Cornelius Van Leemputten (born 1841), painter