1900 in Belgium

Events in the year 1900 in Belgium.

← 1899 1898 1897 1900 in Belgium → 1901 1902 1903
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1900 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II^[1]
• Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer

Events

• 4 April – Jean-Baptiste Sipido shoots at the Prince of Wales in Brussels-North railway station^[2]
• 27 May – Belgian general election, 1900
• 3 June – Provincial elections
• 2 October – Wedding of Albert I of Belgium and Elisabeth of Bavaria.

Publications

Periodicals

• Annales de la Société d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 14 (Brussels, Alfred Vromant)^[3]

Scholarship

• Maurice De Wulf, Histoire de la Philosophie Médiévale (Leuven, Paris and Brussels)^[4]
• Karl Hanquet, Étude critique sur la Chronique de Saint-Hubert dite Cantatorium
• Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 1.
• Max Rooses (ed.), Het schildersboek: Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, vol. 4,^[5]
• Emile Vandervelde, Le propriété foncière en Belgique

Literature

• Émile Verhaeren, Le cloître (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
• Émile Verhaeren, Petites légendes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

Arts and architecture

Louis Tytgadt, Beguines at Work

• Louis Tytgadt, Beguines at Work

Births

• 13 March – Andrée Bosquet, painter (died 1980)
• 1 April – Albert Ayguesparse, writer (died 1996)
• 22 May – Vina Bovy, operatic soprano (died 1983)
• 19 September – Marguerite Massart, engineer (died 1979)

Deaths

• 4 August – Étienne Lenoir (born 1822), engineer
• 22 November – Georges Brugmann (born 1829), banker