1893 in Belgium
Events in the year 1893 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- 12–18 April – general strike to demand universal manhood suffrage.
- 15 April – Social-Christian Christene Volkspartij founded
- 12 August – First Paris–Brussels road cycle race
Publications
;PeriodicalsAnnuaire de la section d'art et d'enseignement de la maison du PeupleVan Nu en Straks begins publication;Reference and reportsBiographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 12.Chemins de fer, postes, télégraphes, téléphones et marine. Compte rendu des opérations pendant l'année 1892
- Frans de Potter, Vlaamsche bibliographie: Lijst der boeken, vlug- en tijdschriften, muziekwerken, kaarten, platen en tabellen, in België van 1830 tot 1890 verschenen
- Arthur Van Gehuchten, L'Anatomie du système nerveux de l'homme
- Cyriel Buysse, Het recht van de sterkste
- Guido Gezelle, Tijdkrans
- Prosper de Haulleville, Portraits et silhouettes, vol. 2
- Émile Verhaeren, ''Les campagnes hallucinées''
Art and architecture
- Les XX disband
- La Libre Esthétique founded
- Victor Horta, Hôtel Tassel completed
- Eugène Laermans, Evening strike
- 17 May – Premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck's ''Pelléas et Mélisande''
Births
- 2 January – Félix Sellier, cyclist
- 12 January – Victor Lenaers, cyclist
- 20 February – Gabrielle Petit, patriot
- 23 March
- *Robert de Foy, head of the State Security Service
- *René Vermandel, cyclist
- 4 September – Robert Poulet, writer
- 13 October – René Goormaghtigh, engineer
- 23 October – Jean Absil, composer
- 11 November – Paul van Zeeland, politician
- 9 December – Prosper Dezitter, collaborationist
Deaths
- 23 January – Eugène-François de Block, artist
- 27 January – Alfred Belpaire, locomotive engineer
- 28 January – Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, painter
- 24 May – Félix Nève, Orientalist
- 11 July – Eugène Simonis, sculptor
- 7 November – Constant Lievens, Jesuit priest
- 20 November – Léopold Harzé, sculptor