1894 in Belgium

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List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1894 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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* Monarch: Leopold II[1]
* Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert (until 26 March), Jules de Burlet (starting 26 March)[2]

## Events

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* February – Edouard Whettnall appointed ambassador to London.[3]
* 25-26 March – Belgian Labour Party adopts the Charter of Quaregnon
* 5 May – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers opens (to 5 November)
* 12 May – Publication of an Anglo-Belgian Agreement leasing Bahr el Ghazal to the Congo Free State and a stretch of Congolese territory to the British. The exchange of territory was later rescinded under French and German pressure in the diplomatic build-up to the 1898 Fashoda Incident.[4]
* 4-11 August – International congress of applied chemistry held in Brussels and Antwerp[5]
* 14 October – First Belgian general election under universal manhood suffrage.[6]
* 28 October – Provincial elections
* 5 November – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers ends.

## Publications

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Periodicals

* Revue Néoscholastique begins publication.[7]
* Durendal begins publication.[8]

Other

* Alphonse Dubois, Faune des vertébrés de la Belgique: Série des oiseaux (Brussels, A la librairie C. Muquardt, Th. Falk Sr), vol. 2[9]
* Maurice Maeterlinck, Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et La mort de Tintagiles: trois petits drames pour marionnettes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)[10]
* Max Rooses, Letterkundige studiën
* Edmond-Louis de Taeye, Les artistes belges contemporains

## Art and architecture

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Eugène Laermans, The Emigrants (1894) Édouard Hannon, Matinée d'Automne (1894)

Exhibitions

* 17 February-15 March – first exhibition of La Libre Esthétique in Brussels.[11]

Paintings

* Eugène Laermans, The Emigrants
* Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Irma Sèthe

Photography

* Édouard Hannon, Matinée d'Automne ("Autumn Morning")

## Births

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* 1 March — Marguerite Lefèvre, geographer (died 1967)
* 17 July – Georges Lemaître, physicist and astronomer (died 1966)

## Deaths

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* 22 January – Hendrik Beyaert (born 1823), architect
* 4 February – Adolphe Sax (born 1814), inventor of the saxophone
* 27 April – Ernest Slingeneyer (born 1820), painter
* 18 June – Jean-Baptiste Bethune (born 1821), architect
* 15 August – Ernest Baert (born 1860), explorer

## References

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1. ^ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
2. ^ Dumont, Georges-Henri (2017). Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (in French). Le Cri. p. 326\. ISBN 978-2-39001-055-5.
3. ^ J. Scott-Keltie (ed.), The Statesman's Yearbook (London and New York, 1895), p. 392.
4. ^ M. P. Hornik, "The Anglo-Belgian Agreement of 12 May 1894", The English Historical Review, Vol. 57, No. 226 (1942), pp. 227-243.
5. ^ Sachs, François (1894). Congrès international de chimie appliquée, Bruxelles-Anvers, 4-11 août 1894.
6. ^ Mackie, Thomas T.; Rose, Richard (2016). The International Almanac of Electoral History. Springer. p. 17\. ISBN 978-1-349-09851-4.
7. ^ Mercier, Désiré (1894). "La Philosophie Néo-Scolastique". Revue néo-scolastique. 1 (1).
8. ^ "Durendal: Revue catholique d'art et de littérature (1894-1914; 1921)". Périodiques numérisés dans le cadre de l'Action de Recherche Concertée. Université libre de Bruxelles.
9. ^ "Faune des vertde la Belgique". Bruxelles, C. Muquardt. 1887.
10. ^ "Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et la mort de Tintagiles: Trois petits drames pour marionnettes". Bruxelles, E. Deman. 1894.
11. ^ La Libre Esthétique: Catalogue de la première exposition à Bruxelles (1894) On Internet Archive

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