1897 in Belgium

Decades:	1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s;
See also:	Other events of 1897; List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1897 in Belgium.

Incumbents

10 May – Brussels International Exposition opens
28 July – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom gives notification of his country's intention to withdraw from the Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation (1862), to come into effect one year later.
16 August – Belgian Antarctic Expedition sets sail from Antwerp
8 November – Brussels International Exposition closes
16 December – Charles-Gustave Walravens appointed bishop of Tournai

Camille Lemonnier, Alphonse Wauters, and Armand Heins, Le Palais de la ville de Bruxelles à l'Exposition universelle de 1897^[3]

Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 14.
Grant Allen, Cities of Belgium (London, G. Richards)^[4]
Guido Gezelle, Rijmsnoer
Gustave Kahn, Limbes de lumières, illustrated by Georges Lemmen (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Les Origines de la psychologie contemporaine^[5]
Emile Vandervelde, Le question agraire en Belgique

1 January – Albert De Vleeschauwer, politician (died 1971)
24 January – Fernand Ledoux, actor (died 1994)
29 January – Honoré Vlamynck, footballer (died 1974)
11 April – Paul Graeffe, bobsledder (died 1957)
7 May – Marcel Maas, pianist (died 1950)
11 May – Joris Minne, artist (died 1988)
2 June – Léon Trulin, intelligence agent (died 1915)
8 June – Domien Jacob, gymnast (died 1984)
19 June – Ernest Casimir-Lambert, bobsledder (died 1931)
1 August – Camil Van Hulse, pianist (died 1988)
25 August – Léoncé Oleffe, athlete (died 1972)
12 September – Albert Wyckmans, cyclist (died 1995)
4 November – Paul Finet, politician (died 1965)
5 November – Paul Kronacker, politician (died 1994)
24 November
- Lode Craeybeckx, politician (died 1976)
- Pierre Devaux, athlete (died 1984)
5 December – Gust De Muynck, broadcaster (died 1986)
18 December – Fernand Collin, banker (died 1990)