1897 in Belgium
Events in the year 1897 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- 10 May – Brussels International Exposition opens
- 28 July – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom gives notification of his country's intention to withdraw from the Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, to come into effect one year later.
- 16 August – Belgian Antarctic Expedition sets sail from Antwerp
- 8 November – Brussels International Exposition closes
- 16 December – Charles-Gustave Walravens appointed bishop of Tournai
Publications
;Exhibitions- Camille Lemonnier, Alphonse Wauters, and Armand Heins, Le Palais de la ville de Bruxelles à l'Exposition universelle de 1897
- Grant Allen, Cities of Belgium
- Louis Cloquet, Les grandes cathédrales du monde catholique
- Guido Gezelle, Rijmsnoer
- Gustave Kahn, Limbes de lumières, illustrated by Georges Lemmen
- Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Les Origines de la psychologie contemporaine
- Emile Vandervelde, ''Le question agraire en Belgique''
Births
- 1 January – Albert De Vleeschauwer, politician
- 24 January – Fernand Ledoux, actor
- 29 January – Honoré Vlamynck, footballer
- 11 April – Paul Graeffe, bobsledder
- 7 May – Marcel Maas, pianist
- 11 May – Joris Minne, artist
- 2 June – Léon Trulin, intelligence agent
- 8 June – Domien Jacob, gymnast
- 19 June – Ernest Casimir-Lambert, bobsledder
- 1 August – Camil Van Hulse, pianist
- 25 August – Léoncé Oleffe, athlete
- 12 September – Albert Wyckmans, cyclist
- 4 November – Paul Finet, politician
- 5 November – Paul Kronacker, politician
- 24 November
- * Lode Craeybeckx, politician
- * Pierre Devaux, athlete
- 5 December – Gust De Muynck, broadcaster
- 18 December – Fernand Collin, banker
Deaths
- 13 February – Gustave Den Duyts, artist
- 1 March – Jules de Burlet, politician
- 12 July – Félix Godefroid, harpist
- 23 September – Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux, bishop of Tournai
- 22 November – Frans Verhas, painter