1902 in Belgium

← 1901 1900 1899 1902 in Belgium → 1903 1904 1905
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1902 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1902 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 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

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

Abbey Church in Dendermonde

Buildings

• Gothic Revival Abbey Church in Dendermonde

Births

• 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

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

References

1. "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. https://www.s-p-a.be/artikel/uitnodiging-herdenking-100-jaar-aes/
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. https://archive.org/details/expositiondesprimi00expo
11. Digitised by Düsseldorf University
12. https://books.google.com/books?id=C3LdZqb2dX8C
13. https://uurl.kbr.be/1427495