1896
in
Belgium

Decades:
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
See also:Other events of 1896
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1896 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Events

  • 7 January – Official founding of the Belgian Automobile Club.[3]
  • 15 April – Law on the making and importation of alcohol replaces duty on the capacity of distillery equipment (adopted in 1833) with a duty on the proportional alcohol content of the distilled product.[4]
  • 25 April – Murder of Delphina-Angelica Borée in Brussels.[5]
  • 5 July – Belgian general election, 1896[6]
  • 26 July – Provincial elections

Publications

Art and architecture

Paintings

Births

Deaths

References

  1. "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  2. Dumont, Georges-Henri (2017). Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (in French). Le Cri. p. 326. ISBN 9782390010555.
  3. Donald Weber, De blijde intrede van de automobiel in België 1895-1940 (Ghent, Academia Press, 2010), p. 53.
  4. Eric Van Schoonenberghe, Alcohol tijdens de negentiende eeuw: Biotechnologie in volle evolutie (Snoeck, 2012), p. 28.
  5. Lagast, Cedric (29 July 2019). "Moordmysteries: de moord op een steenrijke Brusselse weduwe in 1896". Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch).
  6. Mackie, Thomas T.; Rose, Richard (2016). The International Almanac of Electoral History. Springer. p. 17. ISBN 9781349098514.
  7. Études Historiques at Internet Archive.
  8. English translation published in 1901 as Collectivism and Industrial Evolution
  9. "Walthère Frère-Orban, prime minister of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
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