1900 in Belgium

Events in the year 1900 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 4 April – Jean-Baptiste Sipido shoots at the Prince of Wales in Brussels-North railway station
 * 27 May – Belgian general election, 1900
 * 3 June – Provincial elections
 * 2 October – Wedding of King Albert I of Belgium and Elisabeth of Bavaria.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Annales de la Société d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 14 (Brussels, Alfred Vromant)


 * Scholarship
 * Maurice De Wulf, Histoire de la Philosophie Médiévale (Leuven, Paris and Brussels)
 * Karl Hanquet, Étude critique sur la Chronique de Saint-Hubert dite Cantatorium
 * Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 1.
 * Max Rooses (ed.), Het schildersboek: Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, vol. 4,
 * Emile Vandervelde, Le propriété foncière en Belgique


 * Literature
 * Émile Verhaeren, Le cloître (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
 * Émile Verhaeren, Petites légendes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

Arts and architecture

 * Louis Tytgadt, Beguines at Work

Births

 * 13 March – Andrée Bosquet, painter (died 1980)
 * 1 April – Albert Ayguesparse, writer (died 1996)
 * 22 May – Vina Bovy, operatic soprano (died 1983)
 * 19 September – Marguerite Massart, engineer (died 1979)

Deaths

 * 4 August – Étienne Lenoir (born 1822), engineer
 * 22 November – Georges Brugmann (born 1829), banker