1895 in Belgium

Events in the year 1895 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold II
 * Prime Minister: Jules de Burlet

Events

 * 24 January – Compagnie Maritime Belge founded
 * 3 February – Marie-Thérèse Joniaux condemned to death for multiple poisonings
 * 21 July – International choral competition in Liège opens
 * 1 September – Royal Belgian Football Association founded
 * 13 November – Lumière brothers demonstrate the cinematograph at the Physics Museum of the Catholic University of Leuven, one of the first such demonstrations outside France.
 * 5 December – Founding committee of the Belgian Automobile Club holds first meeting in Taverne de la Régence, Place Royale, Brussels.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Le Vingtième Siècle begins publication
 * Le Congo illustré ends publication


 * Scholarship
 * Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 13.
 * Maurice De Wulf, Histoire de la Philosophie Scolastique dans les Pays-Bas et la Principauté de Liège, jusqu'à la Révolution française (Mémoires de l'Académie royale de Belgique 51).
 * Henri La Fontaine and Paul Otlet, Conférence bibliographique internationale, Bruxelles, 1895: Documents (Brussels)
 * Auguste Lameere, Manuel de la faune de Belgique: Animaux non insectes
 * Edmond Marchal, La sculpture et les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'orfèvrerie belges (Brussels, F. Hayez)
 * Édouard van den Corput, L'alcoolisme, l'hérédité et la question sociale (1895)


 * Literature
 * Maurice Maeterlinck, Interior, premiered at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, 15 March.
 * Émile Verhaeren, Les villes tentaculaires (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
 * Émile Verhaeren, Almanach, a collection of verse with illustrations by Théo van Rysselberghe

Art and Architecture

 * Painting
 * Prix de Rome: Jean Delville


 * Architecture
 * Victor Horta, Hôtel van Eetvelde, built for Edmond van Eetvelde

Births

 * undated
 * Henri Smets, athlete (died 1994)
 * 6 February – Jean-Pierre Vermetten, Olympic swimmer
 * 13 February – Paul Nougé, poet (died 1967)
 * 10 March
 * Mathieu Bragard, footballer (died 1952)
 * Jules Vanhevel, cyclist (died 1969)
 * 9 April – Clément Doucet, pianist (died 1950)
 * 19 April – Herman Roosdorp, racing driver (died 1965)
 * 23 April – Robert Coppée, footballer (died 1970)
 * 7 May – Adolphe Goemaere, Olympic sportsman (died 1970)
 * 18 May – Herman de Gaiffier d'Hestroy, Olympic equestrian (died 1960)
 * 28 May – Yvonne Hubert, pianist (died 1988)
 * 5 June – August Baeyens, composer (died 1966)
 * 25 June – Alice Frey, painter (died 1981)
 * 24 July – Jozef Peeters, artist (died 1960)
 * 17 August – Nicolas Lazarévitch, anarchist (died 1975)
 * 19 August – François Demol, footballer (died 1966)
 * 29 August – Jeanne Cappe, author (died 1956)
 * 18 September – Constant Janssen, pharmaceutical entrepreneur (died 1970)
 * 24 September – Frans De Haes, weightlifter (died 1923)
 * 7 October – Maurice Grevisse, grammarian (died 1980)
 * 21 October – Nand Geersens, broadcaster (died 1959)
 * 25 October – Robert van Genechten, Dutch politician (died 1945)
 * 11 November – Victor Soultanbeieff, chess master (died 1972)
 * 14 November – Léopold Buffin de Chosal, pentathlete (died 1947)
 * 25 November – Marcel Gustin, Olympic athlete (died 1977)
 * 27 November – Eugène Gabriels, Olympic rower (died 1969)
 * 29 November – Henri Liebaert, politician (died 1977)
 * 30 December – August De Boodt, politician (died 1986)

Deaths

 * 8 February – Jean-François Portaels (born 1818), painter
 * 24 May – Joseph Quinaux (born 1822), painter
 * 16 June – Alfred van der Smissen (born 1823), general
 * 15 September – Alfred Verwee (born 1838), painter
 * 16 September – Alphonse Balat (born 1818), architect
 * 17 November – Jean-Édouard Bommer (born 1829), botanist