1893 in Belgium

Events in the year 1893 in Belgium.

← 1892 1891 1890 1893 in Belgium → 1894 1895 1896
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1893 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch - Leopold II^[1]
• Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert^[2]

Events

Eugène Laermans, Evening strike (1893)

• 12–18 April – general strike to demand universal manhood suffrage.
• 15 April – Social-Christian Christene Volkspartij founded
• 12 August – First Paris–Brussels road cycle race

Publications

Periodicals

• Annuaire de la section d'art et d'enseignement de la maison du Peuple^[3]
• Van Nu en Straks begins publication^[4]

Reference and reports

• Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 12.
• Chemins de fer, postes, télégraphes, téléphones et marine. Compte rendu des opérations pendant l'année 1892 (Brussels, J. Goemaere)^[5]
• Frans de Potter, Vlaamsche bibliographie: Lijst der boeken, vlug- en tijdschriften, muziekwerken, kaarten, platen en tabellen, in België van 1830 tot 1890 verschenen (Ghent, Alfons Siffer)^[6]
• Arthur Van Gehuchten, L'Anatomie du système nerveux de l'homme (Leuven)^[7]

Literature

• Cyriel Buysse, Het recht van de sterkste
• Guido Gezelle, Tijdkrans
• Prosper de Haulleville, Portraits et silhouettes, vol. 2
• Émile Verhaeren, Les campagnes hallucinées (Brussels, Edmond Deman)^[8]

Art and architecture

Stairway in the Hôtel Tassel

• Les XX disband
• La Libre Esthétique founded

Buildings

• Victor Horta, Hôtel Tassel completed

Paintings

• Eugène Laermans, Evening strike

Performances

• 17 May – Premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande

Births

• 2 January – Félix Sellier, cyclist (died 1965)
• 12 January – Victor Lenaers, cyclist (died 1968)
• 20 February – Gabrielle Petit, patriot (died 1916)
• 23 March
  • Robert de Foy, head of the State Security Service (died 1960)
  • René Vermandel, cyclist (died 1958)
• 4 September – Robert Poulet, writer (died 1989)
• 13 October – René Goormaghtigh, engineer (died 1960)
• 23 October – Jean Absil, composer (died 1974)
• 11 November – Paul van Zeeland, politician (died 1973)
• 9 December – Prosper Dezitter, collaborationist (died 1948)

Deaths

• 23 January – Eugène-François de Block (born 1812), artist
• 27 January – Alfred Belpaire (born 1820), locomotive engineer
• 28 January – Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (born 1829), painter
• 24 May – Félix Nève (born 1816), Orientalist
• 11 July – Eugène Simonis (born 1810), sculptor
• 7 November – Constant Lievens (born 1856), Jesuit priest
• 20 November – Léopold Harzé (born 1831), sculptor