title: 1891 in Belgium
text: # 1891 in Belgium
  
  Events in the year 1891 in Belgium.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Leopold II
  * Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert
  
  ## Events
  
  * 29 January – Funeral of Prince Baudouin of Belgium.
  * 2–20 May – Miners' strike in Liège, spreading to other parts of Wallonia.
  * 10 May – Dock strikes in Antwerp and Ghent in support of coalminers in Wallonia.
  * 16–22 August – International Socialist Labor Congress of Brussels
  * 31 August – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 enters into force.
  * 30 September – French politician Georges Ernest Boulanger commits suicide at the tomb of his mistress in Ixelles Cemetery.
  * 27 November – New law against tramps and beggars
  
  ## Publications
  
  ### Periodicals
  
  * Gazet van Antwerpen begins publication
  * Het Volk begins publication
  * Annales de la Société d'archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 5.
  * La Jeune Belgique, vol. 10.
  
  ### Literature
  
  * Jules Destrée, L'oeuvre lithographique de Odilon Redon (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
  * Maurice Maeterlinck, Les Sept Princesses
  * Stephane Mallarmé, Pages (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
  * John of Ruusbroec, L'Ornement des noces spirituelles, translated by Maurice Maeterlinck
  * Émile Verhaeren, Les flambeaux noirs (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
  
  ## Art and architecture
  
  * L'Essor disbands
  
  ### Paintings
  
  * James Ensor, The Man of Sorrows
  * Fernand Khnopff, I lock my door upon myself
  * Théo van Rysselberghe, Maria Sèthe at the Harmonium
  
  ## Births
  
  * 19 January – Joseph De Craecker, fencer (died 1975)
  * 29 January – Henri Van Lerberghe, cyclist (died 1966)
  * 18 February – Henry George, cyclist (died 1976)
  * 25 March – Filip De Pillecyn, writer (died 1962)
  * 2 April – Marthe Crick-Kuntziger, museum curator (died 1963)
  * 3 May – Henri Rolin, politician (died 1973)
  * 20 June – Jeanne Hebbelynck, artist (died 1959)
  * 24 June – René Pinchart, gymnast (died 1970)
  * 10 August – Andries Mac Leod, mathematician (died 1977)
  * 7 September – Georges Cuisenaire, educator (died 1975)
  * 12 September – Jean-François Martial, actor (died 1977)
  * 18 November – Marie Delcourt, classicist (died 1979)
  * 23 November – Pierre Ryckmans, governor of Belgian Congo (died 1959)
  * 9 December
     * Léon Bekaert, industrialist and politician (died 1961)
     * John Langenus, football referee (died 1952)
  * 29 December – Alphonse Van Mele, gymnast (died 1972)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 4 January – Pierre de Decker (born 1812), politician
  * 23 January – Prince Baudouin of Belgium (born 1869)
  * 28 January – Eduard Wallays (born 1813), artist
  * 4 March – Camille Coquilhat (born 1853), colonial officer
  * 20 May – Paul Émile de Puydt (born 1810), writer
  * 31 July – Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (born 1814), glass painter
  * 17 August – Jean-Joseph Thonissen (born 1817), legal historian and politician
  * 16 November – Camille van Camp (born 1834), painter
  * 2 December – Caroline Boussart (born 1808), feminist
  * 13 December – Jean Stas (born 1813), analytical chemist
  * 20 December – Victor Jacobs (born 1838), politician
  
  ### Date to be determined
  
  * Chantal Coché (born 1826), industrialist
  