1887 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1887 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * Progressive Party founded, led by Paul Janson
 * 24 August – Soldiers fire upon Ostend trawlermen protesting the favouritism shown to British trawlermen
 * 21 December – Achel Abbey buys the buildings of Rochefort Abbey to restore the monastery there

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Le Soir begins publication


 * Books
 * Alphonse Dubois, Faune des vertébrés de la Belgique: Série des oiseaux (Brussels, A la librairie C. Muquardt, Th. Falk Sr), vol. 1

Art and architecture

 * Brussels City Museum inaugurated


 * Paintings
 * James Ensor, Carnaval sur la plage
 * Fernand Khnopff, Portrait of Marguerite Khnopff


 * Buildings
 * Franz Seulen, Schaarbeek railway station
 * Work starts on Provinciaal Hof, Bruges

Births

 * 6 January – Berthe Bovy, actress (died 1977)
 * 14 January – Félix Rousseau, historian (died 1981)
 * 28 March – Pierre Nothomb, writer (died 1966)
 * 23 April – Georges-Marie de Jonghe d'Ardoye, papal diplomat (died 1961)
 * 8 June – Émile Dupont, Olympic marksman (died 1959)
 * 25 October – Léon Darrien, gymnast (died 1973)
 * 27 October – Philippe Le Hardy de Beaulieu, fencer (died 1942)
 * 23 November – Paul de Maleingreau, composer (died 1956)

Deaths

 * 11 February – François Laurent (born 1810), historian
 * 4 March – Peter Jan Beckx (born 1795), Jesuit
 * 16 July – Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck (born 1809), palaeontologist
 * 17 July – Nicaise De Keyser (born 1813), painter
 * 20 November – Louis Gallait (born 1810), painter
 * 29 December – Jules Van Praet (born 1806), diplomat