1884 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1884 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

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See also:

Other events of 1884
List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

Auguste Beernaert (1829–1912), Prime Minister 1884–1894

Monarch: Leopold II[1]
Prime Minister:
- until 16 June: Walthère Frère-Orban
- 16 June–26 October: Jules Malou
- starting 26 October: Auguste Marie François Beernaert

Events

Belgian State Railways Type 25 taken into service
15 May – North Sea Fisheries Convention (signed 1882) comes into effect
16 June – Jules Malou replaces Walthère Frère-Orban as Prime Minister
25 May – Provincial elections
June and July – Belgian general election, 1884[2]
5 July – Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property obtains legal force
26 October – Auguste Beernaert replaces Jules Malou as Prime Minister
End of the First School War between confessional Catholic Party and secularist Liberal Party

Publications

Frontispiece from Bruxelles à travers les âges (3 vols., 1884)

Periodicals

Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique, vol. 28.[3]
La Belgique Horticole, vol. 34, edited by Édouard Morren.[4]
Bibliographie de la Belgique, vol. 10.[5]
Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez).[6]
La Jeune Belgique, vol. 3.[7]
Jurisprudence du port d'Anvers, vol. 29.[8]
Le Magasin littéraire et scientifique begins publication.
Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, vol. 45.[9]
Messager des sciences historiques.[10]
Le Mouvement Géographique begins publication.
Le Patriote begins publication.

Books

Maria Doolaeghe, Jongste dichtbundel
Louis Hymans, Bruxelles à travers les âges (3 vols., Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe)[11]
Isidoor Teirlinck and Reimond Stijns, Arm Vlaanderen
Léon Vanderkindere, L'Université de Bruxelles: Notice historique, faite à la demande du Conseil d'Administration (Brussels, P. Weissenbruch)[12]

Art and architecture

Photograph of the first exhibition of Les XX (1884)

Exhibitions

February – First exhibition of Les XX opens[13]

Paintings

Théo van Rysselberghe, Four Breakwaters
James Ensor, The Rooftops of Ostend

Births

19 January – Valerius Geerebaert, Redemptorist (did 1957)
17 February – Arthur Vanderpoorten, politician (died 1945)
21 March – Paul Demasy, playwright (died 1974)
26 May – Félix Goblet d'Alviella, newspaperman (died 1957)
3 June – Julius Raes, Capuchin archivist (died 1961)
8 June – Paul Ermens, colonial officer (died 1957)
13 June – Jean Brusselmans, painter (died 1953)
6 September – Julien Lahaut, communist (died 1950)
22 November – Oscar Sevrin, missionary (died 1975)
30 November – Yvan Goor, motorcyclist (died 1958)
10 December – Robert Gillon, politician (died 1972)
20 December – Jean-Baptiste Sipido, anarchist (died 1959)

Deaths

Maria Doolaeghe (1803–1884), Flemish writer

7 April – Maria Doolaeghe (born 1803), poet
22 May – Louis Hymans (born 1829), writer and politician
10 July – Henri Delmotte (born 1822), writer
23 July – Louis Galesloot (born 1821), archivist
5 November – Edouard d'Huart (born 1800), politician
1 December – Louis-Gustave Amelot (born 1857), engineer
4 December – Frédéric Faber (born 1837), bibliophile
28 December – Edmond Hanssens (born 1843), colonial administrator

References

"Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
Sternberger, D, Vogel, B & Nohlen, D (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa - Erster Halbband, p105
"Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique". 1864.
"La Belgique horticole : Journal des jardins". 1851.
"Bibliographie de la Belgique, ou catalogue général de l'imprimerie et de la librairie belges". 1884.
"Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique". 1884.
"La Jeune Belgique". 1884.
"Jurisprudence du port d'Anvers". 1884.
"Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des ..., Volume 45". l'Académie.
"Messager des sciences historiques, ou, Archives des arts et de la bibliographie de Belgique".
vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3
L'Université de Bruxelles on Google Books.
Michel Draguet, Fernand Khnopff (Brussels, Fonds Mercator, 2018), p. 8.

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