1898 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1898 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1898 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II[1]
• Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer[2]

Events

Luxury hotel Château royal d'Ardenne, opened 23 June 1898

• 18 April - Coremans-De Vriendt law gives Dutch and French equal legal status in Belgian public life.[3]
• 22 May - Belgian general election, 1898[4]
• 5 June – Provincial elections
• 23 June – Opening of the Château royal d'Ardenne as a luxury hotel run by the Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels.
• 13–17 July – Eleventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Brussels.[5]
• 27 July – Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation comes to an end, due to notification of the United Kingdom's withdrawal a year earlier.

Publications

• Léon Bloy, Mendiant ingrat (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
• J. Nyssens-Hart, The Outer Port and the Inner Port of Bruges (Brussels, A> Lesigne)[6]
• Max Rooses (ed.), Het schildersboek: Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, vol. 1,[7] vol. 2.[8]
• Emile Vandervelde, Le Socialisme en Belgique
• Émile Verhaeren, Les aubes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

Art and architecture

Eugène Laermans, The Drunkard (1898)

Paintings

• Eugène Laermans, The Drunkard

Buildings

• Victor Horta, Hôtel Solvay

Births

• 8 February - André Fierens, footballer (d. 1972)[9]
• 5 March – Lucien Leboutte, air chief (d. 1988)
• 17 March - Raymond Decorte, cyclist (d. 1972)[10]

Deaths

• 12 January – Jean Jules Linden (born 1817), botanist
• 14 January – Polydore de Keyser (born 1832), Lord Mayor of London
• 25 January – François Roffiaen (born 1820), painter
• 22 March – Pieter De Rudder (born 1822), labourer
• 25 April – Prosper de Haulleville (born 1830), newspaperman
• 1 May – Alphonse Wauters (born 1817), archivist
• 3 June – Emma De Vigne (born 1850), painter
• 9 June – Joseph Jaquet (born 1822), sculptor
• 13 July – Émile Banning (born 1836), government adviser
• 23 August – Félicien Rops (born 1833), illustrator
• 11 September – Adolphe Samuel (born 1824), composer
• 30 September – Léon Mignon (born 1847), sculptor
• 25 December – Georges Rodenbach (born 1855), author

References

1. "Leopold II - king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
2. "Gouvernement de Smet de Naeyer I". www.histoire-des-belges.be (in French).
3. Missinne, Johannes Koll, Loek Geeraedts, Amand Berteloot, Lut. Nationale Bewegungen in Belgien (in German). Waxmann Verlag. p. 112. ISBN 9783830964650.
4. Mackie, Thomas T.; Rose, Richard (2016). The International Almanac of Electoral History. Springer. p. 17. ISBN 9781349098514.
5. C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65.
6. Online at Flandrica.be
7. https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/roos015schi03_01/
8. https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/roos015schi04_01/
9. "André FIERENS - Olympic Football". International Olympic Committee. 15 June 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
10. "Raymond Decorte". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 14 May 2018.