1891 in Belgium

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29 January – Funeral of Prince Baudouin of Belgium.
2–20 May – Miners' strike in Liège, spreading to other parts of Wallonia.^[3]
10 May – Dock strikes in Antwerp and Ghent in support of coalminers in Wallonia.^[4]
16–22 August – International Socialist Labor Congress of Brussels
31 August – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 enters into force.
30 September – French politician Georges Ernest Boulanger commits suicide at the tomb of his mistress in Ixelles Cemetery.
27 November – New law against tramps and beggars^[5]

Jules Destrée, L'oeuvre lithographique de Odilon Redon (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Maurice Maeterlinck, Les Sept Princesses
Stephane Mallarmé, Pages (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
John of Ruusbroec, L'Ornement des noces spirituelles, translated by Maurice Maeterlinck
Émile Verhaeren, Les flambeaux noirs (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

19 January – Joseph De Craecker, fencer (died 1975)
29 January – Henri Van Lerberghe, cyclist (died 1966)
18 February – Henry George, cyclist (died 1976)
25 March – Filip De Pillecyn, writer (died 1962)
2 April – Marthe Crick-Kuntziger, museum curator (died 1963)
3 May – Henri Rolin, politician (died 1973)
20 June – Jeanne Hebbelynck, artist (died 1959)
24 June – René Pinchart, gymnast (died 1970)
10 August – Andries Mac Leod, mathematician (died 1977)
7 September – Georges Cuisenaire, educator (died 1975)
12 September – Jean-François Martial, actor (died 1977)
18 November – Marie Delcourt, classicist (died 1979)
23 November – Pierre Ryckmans, governor of Belgian Congo (died 1959)
9 December
- Léon Bekaert, industrialist and politician (died 1961)
- John Langenus, football referee (died 1952)
29 December – Alphonse Van Mele, gymnast (died 1972)

^ "Leopold II - king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
^ "Auguste-Marie-François Beernaert - Belgian-Flemish statesman". Encyclopedia Britannica.
^ Gita Deneckere, Les Turbulences de la Belle Époque, 1878-1905 (Brussels: Le Cri), p. 75.
^ Gita Deneckere, Les Turbulences de la Belle Époque, 1878-1905 (Brussels: Le Cri), p. 75.
^ Loi du 27 novembre 1891 pour la répression du vagabondage et de la mendicité (1893).

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