title: 1893 in Belgium
text: # 1893 in Belgium
  
  Events in the year 1893 in Belgium.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch - Leopold II
  * Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert
  
  ## Events
  
  * 12–18 April – general strike to demand universal manhood suffrage.
  * 15 April – Social-Christian Christene Volkspartij founded
  * 12 August – First Paris–Brussels road cycle race
  
  ## Publications
  
  ### Periodicals
  
  * Annuaire de la section d'art et d'enseignement de la maison du Peuple
  * Van Nu en Straks begins publication
  
  ### Reference and reports
  
  * Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 12.
  * Chemins de fer, postes, télégraphes, téléphones et marine. Compte rendu des opérations pendant l'année 1892 (Brussels, J. Goemaere)
  * Frans de Potter, Vlaamsche bibliographie: Lijst der boeken, vlug- en tijdschriften, muziekwerken, kaarten, platen en tabellen, in België van 1830 tot 1890 verschenen (Ghent, Alfons Siffer)
  * Arthur Van Gehuchten, L'Anatomie du système nerveux de l'homme (Leuven)
  
  ### Literature
  
  * Cyriel Buysse, Het recht van de sterkste
  * Guido Gezelle, Tijdkrans
  * Prosper de Haulleville, Portraits et silhouettes, vol. 2
  * Émile Verhaeren, Les campagnes hallucinées (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
  
  ## Art and architecture
  
  * Les XX disband
  * La Libre Esthétique founded
  
  ### Buildings
  
  * Victor Horta, Hôtel Tassel completed
  
  ### Paintings
  
  * Eugène Laermans, Evening strike
  
  ### Performances
  
  * 17 May – Premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande
  
  ## Births
  
  * 2 January – Félix Sellier, cyclist (died 1965)
  * 12 January – Victor Lenaers, cyclist (died 1968)
  * 20 February – Gabrielle Petit, patriot (died 1916)
  * 23 March
     * Robert de Foy, head of the State Security Service (died 1960)
     * René Vermandel, cyclist (died 1958)
  * 4 September – Robert Poulet, writer (died 1989)
  * 13 October – René Goormaghtigh, engineer (died 1960)
  * 23 October – Jean Absil, composer (died 1974)
  * 11 November – Paul van Zeeland, politician (died 1973)
  * 9 December – Prosper Dezitter, collaborationist (died 1948)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 23 January – Eugène-François de Block (born 1812), artist
  * 27 January – Alfred Belpaire (born 1820), locomotive engineer
  * 28 January – Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (born 1829), painter
  * 24 May – Félix Nève (born 1816), Orientalist
  * 11 July – Eugène Simonis (born 1810), sculptor
  * 7 November – Constant Lievens (born 1856), Jesuit priest
  * 20 November – Léopold Harzé (born 1831), sculptor
  