1894 in Belgium
Events in the year 1894 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- February – Edouard Whettnall appointed ambassador to London.
- 25-26 March – Belgian Labour Party adopts the Charter of Quaregnon
- 5 May – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers opens
- 12 May – Publication of an Anglo-Belgian Agreement leasing Bahr el Ghazal to the Congo Free State and a stretch of Congolese territory to the British. The exchange of territory was later rescinded under French and German pressure in the diplomatic build-up to the 1898 Fashoda Incident.
- 4-11 August – International congress of applied chemistry held in Brussels and Antwerp
- 14 October – First Belgian general election under universal manhood suffrage.
- 28 October – Provincial elections
- 5 November – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers ends.
Publications
PeriodicalsRevue Néoscholastique begins publication.Durendal begins publication.Other
- Alphonse Dubois, Faune des vertébrés de la Belgique: Série des oiseaux, vol. 2
- Maurice Maeterlinck, Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et La mort de Tintagiles: trois petits drames pour marionnettes
- Max Rooses, Letterkundige studiën
- Edmond-Louis de Taeye, ''Les artistes belges contemporains''
Art and architecture
;Exhibitions- 17 February-15 March – first exhibition of La Libre Esthétique in Brussels.
- Eugène Laermans, The Emigrants
- Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Irma Sèthe
- Édouard Hannon, ''Matinée d'Automne''
Births
- 1 March — Marguerite Lefèvre, geographer
- 17 July – Georges Lemaître, physicist and astronomer
Deaths
- 22 January – Hendrik Beyaert, architect
- 4 February – Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone
- 27 April – Ernest Slingeneyer, painter
- 18 June – Jean-Baptiste Bethune, architect
- 15 August – Ernest Baert, explorer