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Map of Belgium and Luxembourg from Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas (1890)

Events in the year 1890 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Events

  • 25 May – Provincial elections
  • 27 May – Belgian National Day is made a legal holiday
  • 10 June – Belgian general election, 1890
  • 2 July – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 (anti-slavery convention)
  • 21 July – first observance of 21 July as Belgian National Day; king lays the foundation stone of the Arcade du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.[3]
  • 16 to 21 August – Seventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Antwerp, with an estimated 150,000 participants.[4]
  • establishment of Sint-Leocollege in Bruges

Publications

  • Sylvain Balau, Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique (1815-1884), 3rd edition, with a preface by Charles Woeste (Liège, L. Grandmont-Donders, and Ghent, A. Siffer).[5]
  • Dom Bernard, Geschiedenis der Benedictijner Abdij van Affligem (Ghent, A. Siffer)[6]
  • Prosper de Haulleville, Les nonciatures apostoliques en Belgique depuis 1830
  • Paul Fredericq, The Study of History in Holland and Belgium, translated by Henrietta Leonard (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press)[7]
  • Iwan Gilkin, La Damnation de l'artiste (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
  • Alexis Marie Gochet, Les Congolais: leurs moeurs et usages. Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo (Liège, H. Dessain)[8]
  • Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke, La Lutte de l'Irlande (Lille, Société de Saint-Augustin)[9]

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ "Leopold II - king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert - Belgian-Flemish statesman". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  3. ^ "Arcade et hémicycle, Parc du Cinquantenaire". Inventaire du patrimoine architectural (in French). Brussels Capital Region.
  4. ^ C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65.
  5. ^ "Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique (1815-1884)". Internet Archive. 1890.
  6. ^ "Geschiedenis der Benedictijner Abdij van Affligem". Google Books. 1890.
  7. ^ "The Study of History in Holland and Belgium". Google Books. 1890.
  8. ^ "Les Congolais : Leurs moeurs et usages : Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo". Internet Archive. 1890.
  9. ^ "La lutte de l'Irlande". Internet Archive. 1890.

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