Events in the year 1896 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold II Prime Minister: Jules de Burlet (until 25 February), Paul de Smet de Naeyer (from 25 February)
Events 7 January – Official founding of the Belgian Automobile Club.Donald Weber, De blijde intrede van de automobiel in België 1895-1940 (Ghent, Academia Press, 2010), p. 53. 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.Eric Van Schoonenberghe, Alcohol tijdens de negentiende eeuw: Biotechnologie in volle evolutie (Snoeck, 2012), p. 28. 25 April – Murder of Delphina-Angelica Borée in Brussels. 14 May – Parish of St Anthony of Padua established in newly expanded Heirnis section of Ghent. 5 July – Belgian general election, 1896 26 July – Provincial elections
Publications Pol de Mont, Dit zijn Vlaamsche wondersprookjes Maurice De Wulf, Études Historiques sur l'Esthétique de Saint Thomas d'AquinÉtudes Historiques at Internet Archive. Maurice Maeterlinck, Le Trésor des humbles Édouard van den Corput, Bruxellensia: Croquis artistiques et historiques Emile Vandervelde, L'Evolution industrielle et le collectivismeEnglish translation published in 1901 as Collectivism and Industrial Evolution Émile Verhaeren, Les heures claires (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
Art and architecture
Paintings Fernand Khnopff, Caress of the Sphinx
Births 11 February – René Joannes-Powell, athlete (died 1940) 22 February – Paul van Ostaijen, poet (died 1928) 10 April – Jean-Baptiste Piron, soldier (died 1974) 14 August – Julien Lehouck, athlete (died 1944) 10 October – Omer Corteyn, athlete (died 1979)
Deaths 2 January – Walthère Frère-Orban (born 1812), politician 9 January – Guillaume Vogels (born 1836), painter 6 February – Julie Dorus-Gras (born 1805), soprano 3 March – Constant de Deken (born 1852), missionary 6 May – Constantin Heger (born 1809), educator 7 June – Florent Crabeels (born 1829), painter 11 August – Xavier De Cock (born 1818), painter 9 December – Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (born 1819), genealogist 13 December – Xavier de Theux de Meylandt et Montjardin (born 1838), bibliophile
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