The following lists events that happened during 1884 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Incumbents
Monarch: Leopold II Prime Minister: until 16 June: Walthère Frère-Orban 16 June–26 October: Jules Malou starting 26 October: Auguste Marie François Beernaert
Events Belgian State Railways Type 25 taken into service 15 May – North Sea Fisheries Convention (signed 1882) comes into effect 16 June – Jules Malou replaces Walthère Frère-Orban as Prime Minister 25 May – Provincial elections June and July – Belgian general election, 1884Sternberger, D, Vogel, B & Nohlen, D (1969) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa - Erster Halbband, p105 5 July – Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property obtains legal force 26 October – Auguste Beernaert replaces Jules Malou as Prime Minister End of the First School War between confessional Catholic Party and secularist Liberal Party
Publications
Periodicals Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique, vol. 28. La Belgique Horticole, vol. 34, edited by Édouard Morren. Bibliographie de la Belgique, vol. 10. Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez). La Jeune Belgique, vol. 3. Jurisprudence du port d'Anvers, vol. 29. Le Magasin littéraire et scientifique begins publication. Mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, vol. 45. Messager des sciences historiques. Le Mouvement Géographique begins publication. Le Patriote begins publication.
Books Maria Doolaeghe, Jongste dichtbundel Louis Hymans, Bruxelles à travers les âges (3 vols., Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe)vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3 Isidoor Teirlinck and Reimond Stijns, Arm Vlaanderen Léon Vanderkindere, L'Université de Bruxelles: Notice historique, faite à la demande du Conseil d'Administration (Brussels, P. Weissenbruch)L'Université de Bruxelles on Google Books.
Art and architecture
Exhibitions February – First exhibition of Les XX opensMichel Draguet, Fernand Khnopff (Brussels, Fonds Mercator, 2018), p. 8.
Paintings Théo van Rysselberghe, Four Breakwaters James Ensor, The Rooftops of Ostend
Births 19 January – Valerius Geerebaert, Redemptorist (died 1957) 17 February – Arthur Vanderpoorten, politician (died 1945) 21 March – Paul Demasy, playwright (died 1974) 26 May – Félix Goblet d'Alviella, newspaperman (died 1957) 3 June – Julius Raes, Capuchin archivist (died 1961) 8 June – Paul Ermens, colonial officer (died 1957) 13 June – Jean Brusselmans, painter (died 1953) 6 September – Julien Lahaut, communist (died 1950) 22 November – Oscar Sevrin, missionary (died 1975) 30 November – Yvan Goor, motorcyclist (died 1958) 10 December – Robert Gillon, politician (died 1972) 20 December – Jean-Baptiste Sipido, anarchist (died 1959)
Deaths
7 April – Maria Doolaeghe (born 1803), poet 22 May – Louis Hymans (born 1829), writer and politician 29 May – Auguste Chauvin (born 1810), artist and educator 10 July – Henri Delmotte (born 1822), writer 23 July – Louis Galesloot (born 1821), archivist 5 November – Edouard d'Huart (born 1800), politician 1 December – Louis-Gustave Amelot (born 1857), engineer 4 December – Frédéric Faber (born 1837), bibliophile 28 December – Edmond Hanssens (born 1843), colonial administrator
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