1886 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1886 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold II
 * Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert

Events

 * 18–29 March – Series of strikes and disturbances in industrial areas of Wallonia
 * 22 March – Law on copyright passed.
 * 4 April – Henri-Charles Lambrecht consecrated coadjutor bishop of Ghent
 * 10 April – Soldiers fire on strikers in Roux
 * 23 May – Provincial elections
 * 8 June – Partial legislative elections of 1886
 * 8 July – Royal decree establishing Royal Flemish Academy of Language and Literature

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Het Belfort begins publication
 * La Wallonie begins publication
 * Bulletin du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, vol. 4.


 * Books
 * Adolphe Burdo, Les Belges dans l'Afrique Centrale: De Zanzibar au lac Tanganika (P. Maes)
 * Jean Stecher, Histoire de la Littérature néerlandaise en Belgique (Brussels, 1886)
 * Émile Verhaeren, Les Moines

Art and architecture

 * Paintings
 * Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Marguerite van Mons


 * Sculptures
 * Constantin Meunier, The Puddeler

Births

 * 4 February – René-Gabriel van den Hout, priest and editor (died 1969)
 * 12 February – Maurice Bladel, writer (died 1968)
 * 18 May – Marcel Wolfers, sculptor (died 1976)

Deaths

 * 9 February – Edmond Speelman (born 1819), Jesuit
 * 30 March – Jean-Joseph Charlier (born 1794), revolutionary
 * 5 July – Charles Baugniet (born 1814), artist
 * 11 July – Jules Malou (born 1810), politician
 * 6 August – Jean-François Abeloos (born 1819), sculptor