1894 in Belgium

Events in the year 1894 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold II
 * Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert (until 26 March), Jules de Burlet (starting 26 March)

Events

 * February – Edouard Whettnall appointed ambassador to London.
 * 25-26 March – Belgian Labour Party adopts the Charter of Quaregnon
 * 5 May – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers opens (to 5 November)
 * 12 May – Publication of an Anglo-Belgian Agreement leasing Bahr el Ghazal to the Congo Free State and a stretch of Congolese territory to the British. The exchange of territory was later rescinded under French and German pressure in the diplomatic build-up to the 1898 Fashoda Incident.
 * 4-11 August – International congress of applied chemistry held in Brussels and Antwerp
 * 14 October – First Belgian general election under universal manhood suffrage.
 * 28 October – Provincial elections
 * 5 November – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers ends.

Publications
Periodicals
 * Revue Néoscholastique begins publication.
 * ''Durendal begins publication.

Other
 * Alphonse Dubois, Faune des vertébrés de la Belgique: Série des oiseaux (Brussels, A la librairie C. Muquardt, Th. Falk Sr), vol. 2
 * Maurice Maeterlinck, Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et La mort de Tintagiles: trois petits drames pour marionnettes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
 * Max Rooses, Letterkundige studiën
 * Edmond-Louis de Taeye, Les artistes belges contemporains

Art and architecture

 * Exhibitions
 * 17 February-15 March – first exhibition of La Libre Esthétique in Brussels.

Paintings
 * Eugène Laermans, The Emigrants
 * Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Irma Sèthe

Photography
 * Édouard Hannon, Matinée d'Automne ("Autumn Morning")

Births

 * 1 March — Marguerite Lefèvre, geographer (died 1967)
 * 17 July – Georges Lemaître, physicist and astronomer (died 1966)

Deaths

 * 22 January – Hendrik Beyaert (born 1823), architect
 * 4 February – Adolphe Sax (born 1814), inventor of the saxophone
 * 27 April – Ernest Slingeneyer (born 1820), painter
 * 18 June – Jean-Baptiste Bethune (born 1821), architect
 * 15 August – Ernest Baert (born 1860), explorer