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See also:	Other events of 1901 List of years 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

References

1. "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. At Internet Archive.
3. "Digital Viewer by KBR".
4. "Pol de Mont, Het schildersboek. Deel 5. Vlaamsche schilders der negentiende eeuw · DBNL".

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