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Events in the year 1894 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II
• Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert (until 26 March), Jules de Burlet (starting 26 March)

Events

• February – Edouard Whettnall appointed ambassador to London.
• 25-26 March – Belgian Labour Party adopts the Charter of Quaregnon
• 5 May – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers opens (to 5 November)
• 12 May – Publication of an Anglo-Belgian Agreement leasing Bahr el Ghazal to the Congo Free State and a stretch of Congolese territory to the British. The exchange of territory was later rescinded under French and German pressure in the diplomatic build-up to the 1898 Fashoda Incident.
• 4-11 August – International congress of applied chemistry held in Brussels and Antwerp
• 14 October – First Belgian general election under universal manhood suffrage.
• 28 October – Provincial elections
• 5 November – Exposition Internationale d'Anvers ends.

Publications

Periodicals

• Revue Néoscholastique begins publication.
• Durendal begins publication.

Other

• Alphonse Dubois, Faune des vertébrés de la Belgique: Série des oiseaux (Brussels, A la librairie C. Muquardt, Th. Falk Sr), vol. 2
• Maurice Maeterlinck, Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et La mort de Tintagiles: trois petits drames pour marionnettes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
• Max Rooses, Letterkundige studiën
• Edmond-Louis de Taeye, Les artistes belges contemporains

Art and architecture

Exhibitions

• 17 February-15 March – first exhibition of La Libre Esthétique in Brussels.

Paintings

• Eugène Laermans, The Emigrants
• Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Irma Sèthe

Photography

• Édouard Hannon, Matinée d'Automne ("Autumn Morning")

Births

• 1 March — Marguerite Lefèvre, geographer (died 1967)
• 17 July – Georges Lemaître, physicist and astronomer (died 1966)

Deaths

• 22 January – Hendrik Beyaert (born 1823), architect
• 4 February – Adolphe Sax (born 1814), inventor of the saxophone
• 27 April – Ernest Slingeneyer (born 1820), painter
• 18 June – Jean-Baptiste Bethune (born 1821), architect
• 15 August – Ernest Baert (born 1860), explorer

References

1. "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
2. Dumont, Georges-Henri (2017). Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (in French). Le Cri. p. 326. ISBN 978-2-39001-055-5.
3. J. Scott-Keltie (ed.), The Statesman's Yearbook (London and New York, 1895), p. 392.
4. M. P. Hornik, "The Anglo-Belgian Agreement of 12 May 1894", The English Historical Review, Vol. 57, No. 226 (1942), pp. 227-243.
5. Sachs, François (1894). Congrès international de chimie appliquée, Bruxelles-Anvers, 4-11 août 1894.
6. Mackie, Thomas T.; Rose, Richard (2016). The International Almanac of Electoral History. Springer. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-349-09851-4.
7. Mercier, Désiré (1894). "La Philosophie Néo-Scolastique". Revue néo-scolastique. 1 (1).
8. "Durendal: Revue catholique d'art et de littérature (1894-1914; 1921)". Périodiques numérisés dans le cadre de l'Action de Recherche Concertée. Université libre de Bruxelles.
9. "Faune des vertde la Belgique". Bruxelles, C. Muquardt. 1887.
10. "Alladine et Palomides, Interieur, et la mort de Tintagiles: Trois petits drames pour marionnettes". Bruxelles, E. Deman. 1894.
11. La Libre Esthétique: Catalogue de la première exposition à Bruxelles (1894) On Internet Archive

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