1891 in Belgium
Events in the year 1891 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- 29 January – Funeral of Prince Baudouin of Belgium.
- 2–20 May – Miners' strike in Liège, spreading to other parts of Wallonia.
- 10 May – Dock strikes in Antwerp and Ghent in support of coalminers in Wallonia.
- 16–22 August – International Socialist Labor Congress of Brussels
- 31 August – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 enters into force.
- 8–12 September – Catholic Congress in Mechelen
- 30 September – French politician Georges Ernest Boulanger commits suicide at the tomb of his mistress in Ixelles Cemetery.
- 27 November – New law against tramps and beggars
Publications
;PeriodicalsGazet van Antwerpen begins publicationHet Volk begins publicationAnnales de la Société d'archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 5.La Jeune Belgique, vol. 10.;Literature
- Jules Destrée, L'oeuvre lithographique de Odilon Redon
- Maurice Maeterlinck, Les Sept Princesses
- Stephane Mallarmé, Pages
- John of Ruusbroec, L'Ornement des noces spirituelles, translated by Maurice Maeterlinck
- Émile Verhaeren, ''Les flambeaux noirs''
Art and architecture
- L'Essor disbands
- James Ensor, The Man of Sorrows
- Fernand Khnopff, I lock my door upon myself
- Théo van Rysselberghe, ''Maria Sèthe at the Harmonium''
Births
- 19 January – Joseph De Craecker, fencer
- 29 January – Henri Van Lerberghe, cyclist
- 18 February – Henry George, cyclist
- 25 March – Filip De Pillecyn, writer
- 2 April – Marthe Crick-Kuntziger, museum curator
- 3 May – Henri Rolin, politician
- 20 June – Jeanne Hebbelynck, artist
- 24 June – René Pinchart, gymnast
- 10 August – Andries Mac Leod, mathematician
- 7 September – Georges Cuisenaire, educator
- 12 September – Jean-François Martial, actor
- 18 November – Marie Delcourt, classicist
- 23 November – Pierre Ryckmans, governor of Belgian Congo
- 9 December
- * Léon Bekaert, industrialist and politician
- * John Langenus, football referee
- 29 December – Alphonse Van Mele, gymnast
Deaths
- 4 January – Pierre de Decker, politician
- 23 January – Prince Baudouin of Belgium
- 28 January – Eduard Wallays, artist
- 4 March – Camille Coquilhat, colonial officer
- 20 May – Paul Émile de Puydt, writer
- 31 July – Jean-Baptiste Capronnier, glass painter
- 17 August – Jean-Joseph Thonissen, legal historian and politician
- 28 October – Louis Roersch, philologist
- 16 November – Camille van Camp, painter
- 2 December – Caroline Boussart, feminist
- 13 December – Jean Stas, analytical chemist
- 20 December – Victor Jacobs, politician
- Chantal Coché, industrialist