1898 in Belgium

Events in the year 1898 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold II
 * Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer

Events

 * 18 April - Coremans-De Vriendt law gives Dutch and French equal legal status in Belgian public life.
 * 22 May - Belgian general election, 1898
 * 5 June – Provincial elections
 * 23 June – Opening of the Château royal d'Ardenne as a luxury hotel run by the Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels.
 * 13–17 July – Eleventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Brussels.
 * 27 July – Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation comes to an end, due to notification of the United Kingdom's withdrawal a year earlier.

Publications

 * Léon Bloy, Mendiant ingrat (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
 * J. Nyssens-Hart, The Outer Port and the Inner Port of Bruges (Brussels, A> Lesigne)
 * Max Rooses (ed.), Het schildersboek: Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, vol. 1, vol. 2.
 * Emile Vandervelde, Le Socialisme en Belgique
 * Émile Verhaeren, Les aubes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

Art and architecture

 * Paintings
 * Eugène Laermans, The Drunkard
 * Buildings
 * Victor Horta, Hôtel Solvay

Births

 * 8 February - André Fierens, footballer (d. 1972)
 * 5 March – Lucien Leboutte, air chief (d. 1988)
 * 17 March - Raymond Decorte, cyclist (d. 1972)

Deaths

 * 12 January – Jean Jules Linden (born 1817), botanist
 * 14 January – Polydore de Keyser (born 1832), Lord Mayor of London
 * 25 January – François Roffiaen (born 1820), painter
 * 22 March – Pieter De Rudder (born 1822), labourer
 * 25 April – Prosper de Haulleville (born 1830), newspaperman
 * 1 May – Alphonse Wauters (born 1817), archivist
 * 3 June – Emma De Vigne (born 1850), painter
 * 9 June – Joseph Jaquet (born 1822), sculptor
 * 13 July – Émile Banning (born 1836), government adviser
 * 23 August – Félicien Rops (born 1833), illustrator
 * 11 September – Adolphe Samuel (born 1824), composer
 * 30 September – Léon Mignon (born 1847), sculptor
 * 25 December – Georges Rodenbach (born 1855), author