1886 in Belgium

← 1885 1884 1883 1886 in Belgium → 1887 1888 1889
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1886 List of years in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1886 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II^[1]
• Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert^[2]

Events

Soldiers fire on strikers in Roux, 10 April 1886

• 18–29 March – Series of strikes and disturbances in industrial areas of Wallonia
• 22 March – Law on copyright passed.^[3]
• 4 April – Henri-Charles Lambrecht consecrated coadjutor bishop of Ghent
• 10 April – Soldiers fire on strikers in Roux
• 23 May – Provincial elections
• 8 June – Partial legislative elections of 1886
• 8 July – Royal decree establishing Royal Flemish Academy of Language and Literature

Publications

Periodicals

• Het Belfort begins publication
• La Wallonie begins publication
• Bulletin du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, vol. 4. ^[4]

Books

• Adolphe Burdo, Les Belges dans l'Afrique Centrale: De Zanzibar au lac Tanganika (P. Maes)
• Jean Stecher, Histoire de la Littérature néerlandaise en Belgique (Brussels, 1886)
• Émile Verhaeren, Les Moines

Art and architecture

Constantin Meunier, The Puddeler (1886)

Paintings

• Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Marguerite van Mons

Sculptures

• Constantin Meunier, The Puddeler

Births

• 4 February – René-Gabriel van den Hout, priest and editor (died 1969)
• 12 February – Maurice Bladel, writer (died 1968)
• 18 May – Marcel Wolfers, sculptor (died 1976)

Deaths

• 9 February – Edmond Speelman (born 1819), Jesuit
• 30 March – Jean-Joseph Charlier (born 1794), revolutionary
• 5 July – Charles Baugniet (born 1814), artist
• 11 July – Jules Malou (born 1810), politician
• 6 August – Jean-François Abeloos (born 1819), sculptor

References

1. "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. "In Memoriam", American Journal of International Law, 7 (1913), pp. 371-374. On Internet Archive.
3. Maurice Benoidt and Louis Descamps, Commentaire législatif de la Loi du 22 mars 1886 sur le droit d'auteur (Brussels, 1886) On Internet Archive
4. "Bulletin du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique; Medeelingen van het Koninklijk Natuurhistorisch Museeun van België". 1882.