1881 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1881 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

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Decades:

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See also:

Other events of 1881
List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

Events

10 May – Princess Stéphanie of Belgium marries Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, in the Augustinian Church, Vienna.
8 September – Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux performs the canonical coronation of Our Lady of Tongre in Chièvres, mandated in a papal brief of Pope Leo XIII.

Publications

Periodicals

L'Art Moderne begins publication.[2]

Books

Exposition de l'art ancien au Pays de Liège: Catalogue officiel (Liège, L. Grandmont-Donders)[3]
A Handbook for Travellers in Holland and Belgium (London, John Murray).[4]
Alfred Giron, Le droit administratif de la Belgique (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe)[5]
François Nizet, Voyage de Bruxelles à Aix-la-Chapelle: Excursions de Sa Majesté la Reine des Belges (Brussels)[6]

Art and architecture

Halles Saint-Géry in Brussels

Buildings

Adolphe Vanderheggen, Halles Saint-Géry (Brussels)

Births

15 January – Maurice Corneil de Thoran, musician (died 1953)
6 February – Huib Hoste, architect (died 1957)
28 February – Geo Verbanck, sculptor (died 1961)
17 March – Raoul Daufresne de la Chevalerie, sportsman and soldier (died 1967)
12 April – François Poels, trade unionist (died 1926)
28 July – Léon Spilliaert, artist (died 1946)

Deaths

6 June – Henri Vieuxtemps (born 1820), composer
27 July – François-Joseph Scohy (born 1831), archaeologist
7 November – Auguste Vander Meersch (born 1810), biographer
12 November – Jan Michiel Ruyten (born 1813), artist
28 December – André-Eugène Pirson (born 1817), banker and politician

References

"Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
René Fayt. "Résumé". Périodiques numérisés dans le cadre de l'Action de Recherche Concertée. Université libre de Bruxelles.
https://archive.org/details/expositiondelar00ligoog/page/n9
On Google Books
vol. 1, vol. 2
https://archive.org/details/voyagedebruxelle00nize/page/n6

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Years in Belgium
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1881 in Europe
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