1893 in Belgium

Events in the year 1893 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 12–18 April – general strike to demand universal manhood suffrage.
 * 15 April – Social-Christian Christene Volkspartij founded
 * 12 August – First Paris–Brussels road cycle race

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Annuaire de la section d'art et d'enseignement de la maison du Peuple
 * Van Nu en Straks begins publication


 * Reference and reports
 * Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 12.
 * Chemins de fer, postes, télégraphes, téléphones et marine. Compte rendu des opérations pendant l'année 1892 (Brussels, J. Goemaere)
 * Frans de Potter, Vlaamsche bibliographie: Lijst der boeken, vlug- en tijdschriften, muziekwerken, kaarten, platen en tabellen, in België van 1830 tot 1890 verschenen (Ghent, Alfons Siffer)
 * Arthur Van Gehuchten, L'Anatomie du système nerveux de l'homme (Leuven)


 * Literature
 * Cyriel Buysse, Het recht van de sterkste
 * Guido Gezelle, Tijdkrans
 * Prosper de Haulleville, Portraits et silhouettes, vol. 2
 * Émile Verhaeren, Les campagnes hallucinées (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

Art and architecture

 * Les XX disband
 * La Libre Esthétique founded


 * Buildings
 * Victor Horta, Hôtel Tassel completed


 * Paintings
 * Eugène Laermans, Evening strike


 * Performances
 * 17 May – Premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande

Births

 * 2 January – Félix Sellier, cyclist (died 1965)
 * 12 January – Victor Lenaers, cyclist (died 1968)
 * 20 February – Gabrielle Petit, patriot (died 1916)
 * 23 March
 * Robert de Foy, head of the State Security Service (died 1960)
 * René Vermandel, cyclist (died 1958)
 * 4 September – Robert Poulet, writer (died 1989)
 * 13 October – René Goormaghtigh, engineer (died 1960)
 * 23 October – Jean Absil, composer (died 1974)
 * 11 November – Paul van Zeeland, politician (died 1973)
 * 9 December – Prosper Dezitter, collaborationist (died 1948)

Deaths

 * 23 January – Eugène-François de Block (born 1812), artist
 * 27 January – Alfred Belpaire (born 1820), locomotive engineer
 * 28 January – Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (born 1829), painter
 * 24 May – Félix Nève (born 1816), Orientalist
 * 11 July – Eugène Simonis (born 1810), sculptor
 * 7 November – Constant Lievens (born 1856), Jesuit priest
 * 20 November – Léopold Harzé (born 1831), sculptor