1902 in Belgium

Events in the year 1902 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 6 February – Contract signed for the Belgian concession of Tianjin.
 * 18 April – Clashes in Leuven between the civic guard and demonstrators for universal manhood suffrage leave six workers dead and fourteen injured.
 * 25 May – Belgian general election, 1902
 * 15 June – Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges opens (to 5 October).
 * 3 July – Prince Albert and Princess Elisabeth visit Bruges for the Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges.
 * 17–25 August – "Groeninghefeesten": pageants and celebrations to mark the sixth centenary of the Battle of the Golden Spurs in Kortrijk.
 * 19 August –  Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent, consecrates the new abbey church of Dendermonde Abbey, built in Gothic Revival style.
 * 3–7 September – Fourteenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Namur.
 * 15 November – Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino fails to assassinate Leopold II.

Publications

 * Studies and reports
 * Annuaire de la Législation du Travail, 1901 (Brussels, Ministère de l'Industrie et du Travail, 1902)


 * Exhibitions
 * William Henry James Weale, Exposition des Primitifs flamands et d'Art ancien (Bruges, Desclée, De Brouwer)


 * Scholarship
 * Paul Fredericq, Corpus documentorum inquisitionis haereticae pravitatis Neerlandicae, vol. 5.
 * Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 1, revised edition.
 * Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 2.


 * Literature
 * Stijn Streuvels, Langs de wegen

Art and architecture

 * Buildings
 * Gothic Revival Abbey Church in Dendermonde

Births

 * 21 January – Paul Harsin, historian (died 1983)
 * 3 March — Hélène Mallebrancke, civil engineer and resister (died 1940)
 * 19 March – Louisa Ghijs, actress (died 1985)
 * 11 July – Leo Collard, politician (died 1981)
 * 21 August – Omer Becu, trade unionist (died 1982)
 * 10 November – Jean Denis, collaborator (died 1992)

Deaths

 * 23 November – Cornelius Van Leemputten (born 1841), painter