1902 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1902 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- 25 May – Belgian general election, 1902[2][3][4]
- 15 June – Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges opens (to 5 October).
- 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.[5]
- 15 November – Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino fails to assassinate Leopold II.[6]
Publications
- Studies and reports
- Annuaire de la Législation du Travail, 1901 (Brussels, Ministère de l'Industrie et du Travail, 1902)
- Exhibitions
- William Henry James Weale, Exposition des Primitifs flamands et d'Art ancien (Bruges, Desclée, De Brouwer)[7]
- Scholarship
- Paul Fredericq, Corpus documentorum inquisitionis haereticae pravitatis Neerlandicae, vol. 5.[8]
- Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 1, revised edition.[9]
- Literature
- Stijn Streuvels, Langs de wegen
Births
- 11 July – Leo Collard, politician (died 1981)
- 21 August – Omer Becu, trade unionist (died 1982)
- 10 November – Jean Denis, collaborator (died 1992)
Deaths
- 23 November – Cornelius Van Leemputten (born 1841), painter
References
- ^ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ Nohlen, Dieter; Stöver, Philip (31 May 2010). Elections in Europe: A data handbook. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. p. 289. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7.
- ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p308
- ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p295
- ^ Em. de Visschere, Eeuwfeesten 1302-1902 naar Groeninge (Bruges, Van de Vyvere-Petyt for Davidsfonds, 1902.
- ^ Paul F. State, Historical Dictionary of Brussels, 2nd edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), p. 249.
- ^ https://archive.org/details/expositiondesprimi00expo
- ^ Digitised by Düsseldorf University
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=C3LdZqb2dX8C