1890 in Belgium
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
- 21 July – first observance of 21 July as Belgian National Day; king lays the foundation stone of the Arcade du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.
- 16 to 21 August – Seventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Antwerp, with an estimated 150,000 participants.
- establishment of Sint-Leocollege in Bruges
Publications
- Sylvain Balau, Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique , 3rd edition, with a preface by Charles Woeste.
- Dom Bernard, Geschiedenis der Benedictijner Abdij van Affligem
- Prosper de Haulleville, Les nonciatures apostoliques en Belgique depuis 1830
- Paul Fredericq, The Study of History in Holland and Belgium, translated by Henrietta Leonard
- Iwan Gilkin, La Damnation de l'artiste
- Alexis Marie Gochet, Les Congolais: leurs moeurs et usages. Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo
- Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke, ''La Lutte de l'Irlande''
Births
- 1 January – Alphonse Six, footballer
- 5 March – Ann Codee, actress
- 25 June – Camille Tihon, archivist
- 10 October – Jan Vanderheyden, film-maker
- 13 November – Oscar Blansaer, Olympic athlete
Deaths
- 2 March – Eudore Pirmez, politician
- 22 March – Désiré de Haerne, priest
- 11 May – Eugène Albert, clarinet maker
- 23 May – Louis Artan, artist
- 5 July – Pierre Van Humbeeck, politician
- 3 September – Willem Linnig the Younger, artist
- 22 September – Joanna Courtmans, writer
- 23 October – Charles Verlat, painter
- 16 November – Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler, philologist
- 19 December – César De Paepe, syndicalist
- 21 December – Eugène Anspach, governor of the national bank