1890 in Belgium

Events in the year 1890 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 25 May – Provincial elections
 * 27 May – Belgian National Day is made a legal holiday
 * 10 June – Belgian general election, 1890
 * 2 July – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 (anti-slavery convention)
 * 21 July – first observance of 21 July as Belgian National Day; king lays the foundation stone of the Arcade du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.
 * 16 to 21 August – Seventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Antwerp, with an estimated 150,000 participants.
 * establishment of Sint-Leocollege in Bruges

Publications

 * Sylvain Balau, Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique (1815-1884), 3rd edition, with a preface by Charles Woeste (Liège, L. Grandmont-Donders, and Ghent, A. Siffer).
 * Dom Bernard, Geschiedenis der Benedictijner Abdij van Affligem (Ghent, A. Siffer)
 * Prosper de Haulleville, Les nonciatures apostoliques en Belgique depuis 1830
 * Paul Fredericq, The Study of History in Holland and Belgium, translated by Henrietta Leonard (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press)
 * Iwan Gilkin, La Damnation de l'artiste (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
 * Alexis Marie Gochet, Les Congolais: leurs moeurs et usages. Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo (Liège, H. Dessain)
 * Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke, La Lutte de l'Irlande (Lille, Société de Saint-Augustin)

Births

 * 1 January – Alphonse Six, footballer (died 1914)
 * 5 March – Ann Codee, actress (died 1961)
 * 25 June – Camille Tihon, archivist (died 1972)
 * 10 October – Jan Vanderheyden, film-maker (died 1961)
 * 13 November – Oscar Blansaer, Olympic athlete (died 1962)

Deaths

 * 2 March – Eudore Pirmez (born 1830), politician
 * 22 March – Désiré de Haerne (born 1804), priest
 * 11 May – Eugène Albert (born 1816), clarinet maker
 * 23 May – Louis Artan (born 1837), artist
 * 5 July – Pierre Van Humbeeck (born 1829), politician
 * 3 September – Willem Linnig the Younger (born 1842), artist
 * 22 September – Joanna Courtmans (born 1811), writer
 * 23 October – Charles Verlat (born 1824), painter
 * 16 November – Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler (born 1819), philologist
 * 19 December – César De Paepe (born 1841), syndicalist
 * 21 December – Eugène Anspach (born 1833), governor of the national bank