1884 in Belgium

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

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold II
 * 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
 * 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

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

Art and architecture

 * Exhibitions
 * February – First exhibition of Les XX opens


 * 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

 * 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