1902 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II
• Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer

Events

• 6 February – Contract signed for the Belgian concession of Tianjin.
• 11 February – Police and universal suffrage demonstrators are involved in a physical altercation in Brussels.
• 18 April – Clashes in Leuven between the civic guard and demonstrators for universal manhood suffrage leave six workers dead and fourteen injured.
• 25 May – Belgian general election, 1902
• 15 June – Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges opens.
• 3 July – Prince Albert and Princess Elisabeth visit Bruges for the Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges.
• 17–25 August – "Groeninghefeesten": pageants and celebrations to mark the sixth centenary of the Battle of the Golden Spurs in Kortrijk.
• 19 August –  Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent, consecrates the new abbey church of Dendermonde Abbey, built in Gothic Revival style.
• 3–7 September – Fourteenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Namur.
• 15 November – Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino fails to assassinate Leopold II.

Publications

• William Henry James Weale, Exposition des Primitifs flamands et d'Art ancien

• Paul Fredericq, Corpus documentorum inquisitionis haereticae pravitatis Neerlandicae, vol. 5.
• Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 1, revised edition.
• Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 2.

• Stijn Streuvels, ''Langs de wegen''

Art and architecture

• Gothic Revival Abbey Church in Dendermonde

Births

• 21 January – Paul Harsin, historian
• 3 March — Hélène Mallebrancke, civil engineer and resister
• 19 March – Louisa Ghijs, actress
• 11 July – Leo Collard, politician
• 21 August – Omer Becu, trade unionist
• 10 November – Jean Denis, collaborator

Deaths

• 23 November – Cornelius Van Leemputten, painter