1883 in Belgium
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See also: | Other events of 1883 List of years in Belgium |
The following lists events that happened during 1883 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold II[1]
- Prime Minister: Walthère Frère-Orban
Events
- 20 March – Belgium a signatory to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.
- 5 to 10 June – Third International Eucharistic Congress held in Liège, with over 10,000 in attendance.[2]
- 15 October – Inauguration of Palais de Justice, Brussels.
- 28 October – Founding meeting of the art association Les XX.
- 6 December – Steamer Plantyn abandoned in the North Atlantic after being damaged in a storm.
Publications
- Frans Jozef Peter van den Branden, Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche Schilder-school.[3]
- Émile Verhaeren, Les Flamandes
Art and architecture
- Paintings
- Fernand Khnopff, Listening to Schumann; Portrait de Mademoiselle Van der Hecht
- Buildings
Births
- 18 February – Jacques Ochs, artist and fencer (died 1971)
- 21 March – Jules Van Nuffel, priest and musicologist (died 1953)
- 1 April – Albert-Édouard Janssen, banker (died 1966)
- 3 April – Frits Van den Berghe, painter (died 1939)
- 22 April – Joseph Jacquemotte, anarcho-syndicalist (died 1936)
- 13 May – Caroline Lacroix, royal mistress (died 1948)
- 24 June – Arthur Devère, film actor (died 1961)
- 29 June – Fernand Bosmans, fencer (died 1960)
- 3 July – Pierre Charles (Jesuit) (died 1954)
- 25 July – Félix de Roy, astronomer (died 1942)
- 27 July – Fernand Verhaegen, artist (died 1975)
- 2 September – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (died 1963)
- 4 September – Karel Candael, composer (died 1948)
- 8 September – Théodore Pilette, racing driver (died 1921)
- 12 December – Leon van der Essen, historian (died 1963)
- 16 December – Cyrille van Hauwaert, cyclist (died 1974)
- 23 December – Hubert Pierlot, politician (died 1963)
- 30 December – Marie Gevers, novelist (died 1975)
Deaths
- 5 February – Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim (born 1808), banker
- 1 May – Octave Pirmez (born 1832), author
- 16 May – Ferdinand de Braekeleer the Elder (born 1792), painter
- 15 September – Joseph Plateau (born 1801), mathematician
- 29 November – Elisabeth Dieudonné Vincent (born 1798), Haitian-born businesswoman
- 3 December – André Jolly (born 1799), politician
References
- ^ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65.
- ^ Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche Schilder-school on Google Books.
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