1895 in Belgium
Events in the year 1895 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- 24 January – Compagnie Maritime Belge founded
- 3 February – Marie-Thérèse Joniaux condemned to death for multiple poisonings
- 21 July – International choral competition in Liège opens
- 1 September – Royal Belgian Football Association founded
- 13 November – Lumière brothers demonstrate the cinematograph at the Physics Museum of the Catholic University of Leuven, one of the first such demonstrations outside France.
- 5 December – Founding committee of the Belgian Automobile Club holds first meeting in Taverne de la Régence, Place Royale, Brussels.
Publications
;PeriodicalsLe Vingtième Siècle begins publicationLe Congo illustré ends publication;ScholarshipBiographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 13.
- Maurice De Wulf, Histoire de la Philosophie Scolastique dans les Pays-Bas et la Principauté de Liège, jusqu'à la Révolution française.
- Henri La Fontaine and Paul Otlet, Conférence bibliographique internationale, Bruxelles, 1895: Documents
- Auguste Lameere, Manuel de la faune de Belgique: Animaux non insectes
- Edmond Marchal, La sculpture et les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'orfèvrerie belges
- Édouard van den Corput, L'alcoolisme, l'hérédité et la question sociale
- Maurice Maeterlinck, Interior, premiered at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, 15 March.
- Émile Verhaeren, Les villes tentaculaires
- Émile Verhaeren, Almanach, a collection of verse with illustrations by Théo van Rysselberghe
Art and Architecture
;Painting;Architecture
- Victor Horta, Hôtel van Eetvelde, built for Edmond van Eetvelde
Births
- undated
- * Henri Smets, athlete
- 6 February – Jean-Pierre Vermetten, Olympic swimmer
- 13 February – Paul Nougé, poet
- 10 March
- *Mathieu Bragard, footballer
- *Jules Vanhevel, cyclist
- 9 April – Clément Doucet, pianist
- 19 April – Herman Roosdorp, racing driver
- 23 April – Robert Coppée, footballer
- 7 May – Adolphe Goemaere, Olympic sportsman
- 18 May – Herman de Gaiffier d'Hestroy, Olympic equestrian
- 28 May – Yvonne Hubert, pianist
- 5 June – August Baeyens, composer
- 25 June – Alice Frey, painter
- 24 July – Jozef Peeters, artist
- 17 August – Nicolas Lazarévitch, anarchist
- 19 August – François Demol, footballer
- 29 August – Jeanne Cappe, author
- 18 September – Constant Janssen, pharmaceutical entrepreneur
- 24 September – Frans De Haes, weightlifter
- 7 October – Maurice Grevisse, grammarian
- 21 October – Nand Geersens, broadcaster
- 25 October – Robert van Genechten, Dutch politician
- 11 November – Victor Soultanbeieff, chess master
- 14 November – Léopold Buffin de Chosal, pentathlete
- 25 November – Marcel Gustin, Olympic athlete
- 27 November – Eugène Gabriels, Olympic rower
- 29 November – Henri Liebaert, politician
- 30 December – August De Boodt, politician
Deaths
- 8 February – Jean-François Portaels, painter
- 24 May – Joseph Quinaux, painter
- 16 June – Alfred van der Smissen, general
- 15 September – Alfred Verwee, painter
- 16 September – Alphonse Balat, architect
- 17 November – Jean-Édouard Bommer, botanist