1902 in Belgium

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List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1902 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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

## Events

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* 6 February – Contract signed for the Belgian concession of Tianjin.
* 11 February – Police and universal suffrage demonstrators are involved in a physical altercation in Brussels.
* 18 April – Clashes in Leuven between the civic guard and demonstrators for universal manhood suffrage leave six workers dead and fourteen injured.[2]
* 25 May – Belgian general election, 1902[3][4][5]
* 15 June – Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges opens (to 5 October).
* 3 July – Prince Albert and Princess Elisabeth visit Bruges for the Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges.
* 17–25 August – "Groeninghefeesten": pageants and celebrations to mark the sixth centenary of the Battle of the Golden Spurs in Kortrijk.[6]
* 19 August –  Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent, consecrates the new abbey church of Dendermonde Abbey, built in Gothic Revival style.
* 3–7 September – Fourteenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Namur.[7][8]
* 15 November – Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino fails to assassinate Leopold II.[9]

## Publications

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Studies and reports

* Annuaire de la Législation du Travail, 1901 (Brussels, Ministère de l'Industrie et du Travail, 1902)

Exhibitions

* William Henry James Weale, Exposition des Primitifs flamands et d'Art ancien (Bruges, Desclée, De Brouwer)[10]

Scholarship

* Paul Fredericq, Corpus documentorum inquisitionis haereticae pravitatis Neerlandicae, vol. 5.[11]
* Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 1, revised edition.[12]
* Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 2.[13]

Literature

* Stijn Streuvels, Langs de wegen

## Art and architecture

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Abbey Church in Dendermonde

Buildings

* Gothic Revival Abbey Church in Dendermonde

## Births

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* 21 January – Paul Harsin, historian (died 1983)
* 3 March — Hélène Mallebrancke, civil engineer and resister (died 1940)
* 19 March – Louisa Ghijs, actress (died 1985)
* 11 July – Leo Collard, politician (died 1981)
* 21 August – Omer Becu, trade unionist (died 1982)
* 10 November – Jean Denis, collaborator (died 1992)

## Deaths

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* 23 November – Cornelius Van Leemputten (born 1841), painter

## References

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1. ^ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. ^ "Vooruit".
3. ^ Nohlen, Dieter; Stöver, Philip (31 May 2010). Elections in Europe: A data handbook. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. p. 289\. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7.
4. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p308
5. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p295
6. ^ Em. de Visschere, Eeuwfeesten 1302-1902 naar Groeninge (Bruges, Van de Vyvere-Petyt for Davidsfonds, 1902.
7. ^ C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65.
8. ^ "Inventaire des Congrès Eucharistiques Internationaux". pwt.wroc.pl. Papieski Wydział Teologiczny we Wrocławiu. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
9. ^ Paul F. State, Historical Dictionary of Brussels, 2nd edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), p. 249.
10. ^ "Exposition des primitifs flamands et d'art ancien : Bruges : 15 juin au 15 septembre, 1902 : Première section, tableaux : Catalogue". 1902.
11. ^ Digitised by Düsseldorf University
12. ^ Pirenne, Henri (1902). "Histoire de Belgique".
13. ^ "Digital Viewer by KBR".

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