1894 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1894 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Events

  • 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 The exchange of territory was later rescinded under French and German pressure in the diplomatic build-up to the 1898 Fashoda Incident.[4]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

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

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

Paintings

Photography

Births

Deaths

References

  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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