1901 in Belgium

Events in the year 1901 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 25 July – Bishop Antoon Stillemans consecrates Church of St Anthony of Padua, Ghent
 * 2 August – Deposits of coal discovered at As in the province of Limburg

Publications

 * Series
 * Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 16.
 * Maurice De Wulf launches 15-volume collection Les Philosophes Belges
 * Ernest Gilliat-Smith, The Story of Bruges, illustrated by Edith Calvert and Herbert Railton (London, J.M. Dent)
 * Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 1.


 * Studies
 * Eugène Demolder, Constantin Meunier (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
 * Pol de Mont, Het schildersboek: Vlaamsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, ed. Max Rooses, vol. 5.

Art and architecture

 * Paintings
 * Théo van Rysselberghe, La Promenade

Births

 * 21 May – Suzanne Lilar, writer (died 1992)
 * 3 November – Leopold III of Belgium (died 1983)
 * 25 December – Marie-Noële Kelly, traveller and hostess (died 1995)

Deaths

 * 20 January – Zénobe Gramme (born 1826), electrical engineer
 * 18 February – Egide Walschaerts (born 1820), inventor
 * 30 May – Victor D'Hondt (born 1841), lawyer and mathematician
 * 22 October – Alfred Ronner (born 1851), artist