1895 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II
• Prime Minister: Jules de Burlet

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

• 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

• Prix de Rome: Jean Delville

• 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