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Events in the year 1900 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold II [1]
- Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer
Events
- 4 April – Jean-Baptiste Sipido shoots at the Prince of Wales in Brussels-North railway station [2]
- 27 May – Belgian general election, 1900
- 3 June – Provincial elections
- 2 October – Wedding of King Albert I of Belgium and Elisabeth of Bavaria.
Publications
- Periodicals
- Annales de la Société d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, vol. 14 (Brussels, Alfred Vromant) [3]
- Scholarship
- Maurice De Wulf, Histoire de la Philosophie Médiévale (Leuven, Paris and Brussels) [4]
- Karl Hanquet, Étude critique sur la Chronique de Saint-Hubert dite Cantatorium
- Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 1.
- Max Rooses (ed.), Het schildersboek: Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, vol. 4, [5]
- Emile Vandervelde, Le propriété foncière en Belgique
- Literature
- Émile Verhaeren, Le cloître (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
- Émile Verhaeren, Petites légendes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Arts and architecture
- Louis Tytgadt, Beguines at Work
Births
- 13 March – Andrée Bosquet, painter (died 1980)
- 1 April – Albert Ayguesparse, writer (died 1996)
- 22 May – Vina Bovy, operatic soprano (died 1983)
- 19 September – Marguerite Massart, engineer (died 1979)
Deaths
- 4 August – Étienne Lenoir (born 1822), engineer
- 22 November – Georges Brugmann (born 1829), banker
References
- ^ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ Paul F. State, Historical Dictionary of Brussels (Lanham MD, 2015), p. xxvi.
- ^ "Annales". 1900.
- ^ Histoire de la Philosophie Médiévale at Internet Archive
- ^ Max Rooses. "Het schildersboek. Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw". DBNL.
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