1884 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1884 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

← 1883 1882 1881 1884 in Belgium → 1885 1886 1887
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1884 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

Auguste Beernaert (1829–1912), Prime Minister 1884–1894

• 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, 1884
• 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

Frontispiece from Bruxelles à travers les âges (3 vols., 1884)

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)
• 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)

Art and architecture

Photograph of the first exhibition of Les XX (1884)

Exhibitions

• February – First exhibition of Les XX opens

Paintings

• Théo van Rysselberghe, Four Breakwaters
• James Ensor, The Rooftops of Ostend

Births

• 19 January – Valerius Geerebaert, Redemptorist (did 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

Maria Doolaeghe (1803–1884), Flemish writer

• 7 April – Maria Doolaeghe (born 1803), poet
• 22 May – Louis Hymans (born 1829), writer and politician
• 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