1881 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1881 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold II
 * Prime Minister:Walthère Frère-Orban

Events

 * 10 May – Princess Stéphanie of Belgium marries Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, in the Augustinian Church, Vienna.
 * 8 September – Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux performs the canonical coronation of Our Lady of Tongre in Chièvres, mandated in a papal brief of Pope Leo XIII.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * L'Art Moderne begins publication.


 * Books
 * Exposition de l'art ancien au Pays de Liège: Catalogue officiel (Liège, L. Grandmont-Donders)
 * A Handbook for Travellers in Holland and Belgium (London, John Murray).
 * Alfred Giron, Le droit administratif de la Belgique (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe)
 * François Nizet, Voyage de Bruxelles à Aix-la-Chapelle: Excursions de Sa Majesté la Reine des Belges (Brussels)

Art and architecture

 * Buildings
 * Adolphe Vanderheggen, Halles Saint-Géry (Brussels)

Births

 * 15 January – Maurice Corneil de Thoran, musician (died 1953)
 * 6 February – Huib Hoste, architect (died 1957)
 * 28 February – Geo Verbanck, sculptor (died 1961)
 * 17 March – Raoul Daufresne de la Chevalerie, sportsman and soldier (died 1967)
 * 12 March – Henri Grégoire, scholar and translator (died 1964)
 * 12 April – François Poels, trade unionist (died 1926)
 * 28 July – Léon Spilliaert, artist (died 1946)

Deaths

 * 6 June – Henri Vieuxtemps (born 1820), composer
 * 27 July – François-Joseph Scohy (born 1831), archaeologist
 * 7 November – Auguste Vander Meersch (born 1810), biographer
 * 12 November – Jan Michiel Ruyten (born 1813), artist
 * 28 December – André-Eugène Pirson (born 1817), banker and politician