1883 in Belgium

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The following lists events that happened during 1883 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II^[1]
Prime Minister: Walthère Frère-Orban

Events

Palais de Justice, Brussels (inaugurated 15 October 1883)

20 March – Belgium a signatory to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.
5 to 10 June – Third International Eucharistic Congress held in Liège, with over 10,000 in attendance.^[2]
15 October – Inauguration of Palais de Justice, Brussels.
28 October – Founding meeting of the art association Les XX.
6 December – Steamer Plantyn abandoned in the North Atlantic after being damaged in a storm.

Publications

Frans Jozef Peter van den Branden, Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche Schilder-school.^[3]
Émile Verhaeren, Les Flamandes

Art and architecture

Fernand Khnopff, Listening to Schumann (1883)

Paintings

Fernand Khnopff, Listening to Schumann; Portrait de Mademoiselle Van der Hecht

Buildings

Joseph Poelaert, Palais de Justice, Brussels

Births

18 February – Jacques Ochs, artist and fencer (died 1971)
21 March – Jules Van Nuffel, priest and musicologist (died 1953)
1 April – Albert-Édouard Janssen, banker (died 1966)
3 April – Frits Van den Berghe, painter (died 1939)
22 April – Joseph Jacquemotte, anarcho-syndicalist (died 1936)
13 May – Caroline Lacroix, royal mistress (died 1948)
24 June – Arthur Devère, film actor (died 1961)
29 June – Fernand Bosmans, fencer (died 1960)
3 July – Pierre Charles (Jesuit) (died 1954)
25 July – Félix de Roy, astronomer (died 1942)
27 July – Fernand Verhaegen, artist (died 1975)
2 September – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (died 1963)
4 September – Karel Candael, composer (died 1948)
8 September – Théodore Pilette, racing driver (died 1921)
12 December – Leon van der Essen, historian (died 1963)
16 December – Cyrille van Hauwaert, cyclist (died 1974)
23 December – Hubert Pierlot, politician (died 1963)
30 December – Marie Gevers, novelist (died 1975)

Deaths

5 February – Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim (born 1808), banker
1 May – Octave Pirmez (born 1832), author
16 May – Ferdinand de Braekeleer the Elder (born 1792), painter
15 September – Joseph Plateau (born 1801), mathematician
29 November – Elisabeth Dieudonné Vincent (born 1798), Haitian-born businesswoman
3 December – André Jolly (born 1799), politician

References

^ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
^ C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65.
^ Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche Schilder-school on Google Books.

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