1894 in Belgium

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1894
in
Belgium

Decades:
See also:Other events of 1894
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1894 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Events

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  • 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 (to 5 November)
  • 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 The exchange of territory was later rescinded under French and German pressure in the diplomatic build-up to the 1898 Fashoda Incident.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

Periodicals
  • Revue Néoscholastique begins publication.
  • Durendal begins publication.
Other
  • Alphonse Dubois, Faune des vertébrés de la Belgique: Série des oiseaux (Brussels, A la librairie C. Muquardt, Th. Falk Sr), vol. 2
  • Maurice Maeterlinck, Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et La mort de Tintagiles: trois petits drames pour marionnettes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
  • Max Rooses, Letterkundige studiën
  • Edmond-Louis de Taeye, Les artistes belges contemporains

Art and architecture

Eugène Laermans, The Emigrants (1894)
Édouard Hannon, Matinée d'Automne (1894)
Exhibitions
Paintings
Photography

Births

Deaths


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