1902 in Belgium
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List of years in Belgium
Events in the year 1902 in Belgium .
Incumbents
[edit ]- Monarch: Leopold II [1]
- Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer
Events
[edit ]- 6 February – Contract signed for the Belgian concession of Tianjin.
- 11 February – Police and universal suffrage demonstrators are involved in a physical altercation in Brussels.
- 18 April – Clashes in Leuven between the civic guard and demonstrators for universal manhood suffrage leave six workers dead and fourteen injured.[2]
- 25 May – Belgian general election, 1902 [3] [4] [5]
- 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.[6]
- 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.[7] [8]
- 15 November – Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino fails to assassinate Leopold II.[9]
Publications
[edit ]- 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)[10]
- Scholarship
- Paul Fredericq, Corpus documentorum inquisitionis haereticae pravitatis Neerlandicae, vol. 5.[11]
- Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique , vol. 1, revised edition.[12]
- Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 2.[13]
- Literature
- Stijn Streuvels, Langs de wegen
Art and architecture
[edit ]
- Buildings
Births
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]- 23 November – Cornelius Van Leemputten (born 1841), painter
References
[edit ]- ↑ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ↑ "Vooruit".
- ↑ Nohlen, Dieter; Stöver, Philip (31 May 2010). Elections in Europe: A data handbook. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. p. 289. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7.
- ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p308
- ↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p295
- ↑ Em. de Visschere, Eeuwfeesten 1302-1902 naar Groeninge (Bruges, Van de Vyvere-Petyt for Davidsfonds, 1902.
- ↑ C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review , 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65.
- ↑ "Inventaire des Congrès Eucharistiques Internationaux". pwt.wroc.pl. Papieski Wydział Teologiczny we Wrocławiu. Archived from the original on 2016年03月03日. Retrieved 2019年12月05日.
- ↑ Paul F. State, Historical Dictionary of Brussels, 2nd edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), p. 249.
- ↑ "Exposition des primitifs flamands et d'art ancien : Bruges : 15 juin au 15 septembre, 1902 : Première section, tableaux : Catalogue". 1902.
- ↑ Digitised by Düsseldorf University
- ↑ Pirenne, Henri (1902). "Histoire de Belgique".
- ↑ "Digital Viewer by KBR".
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