1895 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1895; List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1895 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Events

24 January – Compagnie Maritime Belge founded
3 February – Marie-Thérèse Joniaux condemned to death for multiple poisonings
21 July – International choral competition in Liège opens
1 September – Royal Belgian Football Association founded
13 November – Lumière brothers demonstrate the cinematograph at the Physics Museum of the Catholic University of Leuven, one of the first such demonstrations outside France.^[3]
5 December – Founding committee of the Belgian Automobile Club holds first meeting in Taverne de la Régence, Place Royale, Brussels.^[4]

Publications

Periodicals

Le Vingtième Siècle begins publication
Le Congo illustré ends publication

Scholarship

Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 13.^[5]
Maurice De Wulf, Histoire de la Philosophie Scolastique dans les Pays-Bas et la Principauté de Liège, jusqu'à la Révolution française (Mémoires de l'Académie royale de Belgique 51).^[6]
Henri La Fontaine and Paul Otlet, Conférence bibliographique internationale, Bruxelles, 1895: Documents (Brussels)^[7]
Auguste Lameere, Manuel de la faune de Belgique: Animaux non insectes
Edmond Marchal, La sculpture et les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'orfèvrerie belges (Brussels, F. Hayez)^[8]
Édouard van den Corput, L'alcoolisme, l'hérédité et la question sociale (1895)

Literature

Maurice Maeterlinck, Interior, premiered at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, 15 March.^[9]
Émile Verhaeren, Les villes tentaculaires (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Émile Verhaeren, Almanach, a collection of verse with illustrations by Théo van Rysselberghe

Art and Architecture

Painting

Prix de Rome: Jean Delville

Architecture

Victor Horta, Hôtel van Eetvelde, built for Edmond van Eetvelde

Births

undated
- Henri Smets, athlete (died 1994)
6 February – Jean-Pierre Vermetten, Olympic swimmer
13 February – Paul Nougé, poet (died 1967)
10 March
- Mathieu Bragard, footballer (died 1952)
- Jules Vanhevel, cyclist (died 1969)
9 April – Clément Doucet, pianist (died 1950)
19 April – Herman Roosdorp, racing driver (died 1965)
23 April – Robert Coppée, footballer (died 1970)
7 May – Adolphe Goemaere, Olympic sportsman (died 1970)
18 May – Herman de Gaiffier d'Hestroy, Olympic equestrian (died 1960)
28 May – Yvonne Hubert, pianist (died 1988)
5 June – August Baeyens, composer (died 1966)
25 June – Alice Frey, painter (died 1981)
24 July – Jozef Peeters, artist (died 1960)
17 August – Nicolas Lazarévitch, anarchist (died 1975)
19 August – François Demol, footballer (died 1966)
29 August – Jeanne Cappe, author (died 1956)
18 September – Constant Janssen, pharmaceutical entrepreneur (died 1970)
24 September – Frans De Haes, weightlifter (died 1923)
7 October – Maurice Grevisse, grammarian (died 1980)
21 October – Nand Geersens, broadcaster (died 1959)
25 October – Robert van Genechten, Dutch politician (died 1945)
11 November – Victor Soultanbeieff, chess master (died 1972)
14 November – Léopold Buffin de Chosal, pentathlete (died 1947)
25 November – Marcel Gustin, Olympic athlete (died 1977)
27 November – Eugène Gabriels, Olympic rower (died 1969)
29 November – Henri Liebaert, politician (died 1977)
30 December – August De Boodt, politician (died 1986)

Deaths

8 February – Jean-François Portaels (born 1818), painter
24 May – Joseph Quinaux (born 1822), painter
16 June – Alfred van der Smissen (born 1823), general
15 September – Alfred Verwee (born 1838), painter
16 September – Alphonse Balat (born 1818), architect
17 November – Jean-Édouard Bommer (born 1829), botanist

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