1891 in Belgium

Events in the year 1891 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 29 January – Funeral of Prince Baudouin of Belgium.
 * 2–20 May – Miners' strike in Liège, spreading to other parts of Wallonia.
 * 10 May – Dock strikes in Antwerp and Ghent in support of coalminers in Wallonia.
 * 16–22 August – International Socialist Labor Congress of Brussels
 * 31 August – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 enters into force.
 * 30 September – French politician Georges Ernest Boulanger commits suicide at the tomb of his mistress in Ixelles Cemetery.
 * 27 November – New law against tramps and beggars

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Gazet van Antwerpen begins publication
 * Het Volk begins publication
 * Annales de la Société d'archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 5.
 * La Jeune Belgique, vol. 10.


 * Literature
 * Jules Destrée, L'oeuvre lithographique de Odilon Redon (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
 * Maurice Maeterlinck, Les Sept Princesses
 * Stephane Mallarmé, Pages (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
 * John of Ruusbroec, L'Ornement des noces spirituelles, translated by Maurice Maeterlinck
 * Émile Verhaeren, Les flambeaux noirs (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

Art and architecture

 * L'Essor disbands


 * Paintings
 * James Ensor, The Man of Sorrows
 * Fernand Khnopff, I lock my door upon myself
 * Théo van Rysselberghe, Maria Sèthe at the Harmonium

Births

 * 19 January – Joseph De Craecker, fencer (died 1975)
 * 29 January – Henri Van Lerberghe, cyclist (died 1966)
 * 18 February – Henry George, cyclist (died 1976)
 * 25 March – Filip De Pillecyn, writer (died 1962)
 * 2 April – Marthe Crick-Kuntziger, museum curator (died 1963)
 * 3 May – Henri Rolin, politician (died 1973)
 * 20 June – Jeanne Hebbelynck, artist (died 1959)
 * 24 June – René Pinchart, gymnast (died 1970)
 * 10 August – Andries Mac Leod, mathematician (died 1977)
 * 7 September – Georges Cuisenaire, educator (died 1975)
 * 12 September – Jean-François Martial, actor (died 1977)
 * 18 November – Marie Delcourt, classicist (died 1979)
 * 23 November – Pierre Ryckmans, governor of Belgian Congo (died 1959)
 * 9 December
 * Léon Bekaert, industrialist and politician (died 1961)
 * John Langenus, football referee (died 1952)
 * 29 December – Alphonse Van Mele, gymnast (died 1972)

Deaths

 * 4 January – Pierre de Decker (born 1812), politician
 * 23 January – Prince Baudouin of Belgium (born 1869)
 * 28 January – Eduard Wallays (born 1813), artist
 * 4 March – Camille Coquilhat (born 1853), colonial officer
 * 20 May – Paul Émile de Puydt (born 1810), writer
 * 31 July – Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (born 1814), glass painter
 * 17 August – Jean-Joseph Thonissen (born 1817), legal historian and politician
 * 28 October – Louis Roersch (born 1831), philologist
 * 16 November – Camille van Camp (born 1834), painter
 * 2 December – Caroline Boussart (born 1808), feminist
 * 13 December – Jean Stas (born 1813), analytical chemist
 * 20 December – Victor Jacobs (born 1838), politician


 * Date to be determined
 * Chantal Coché (born 1826), industrialist