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Events in the year 1901 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II^[1]
• Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer

Events

• 25 July – Bishop Antoon Stillemans consecrates Church of St Anthony of Padua, Ghent
• 2 August – Deposits of coal discovered at As in the province of Limburg

Publications

Series

• Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 16.
• Maurice De Wulf launches 15-volume collection Les Philosophes Belges
• Ernest Gilliat-Smith, The Story of Bruges, illustrated by Edith Calvert and Herbert Railton (London, J.M. Dent)^[2]
• Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 1.^[3]

Studies

• Eugène Demolder, Constantin Meunier (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
• Pol de Mont, Het schildersboek: Vlaamsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, ed. Max Rooses, vol. 5.^[4]

Art and architecture

Paintings

• Théo van Rysselberghe, La Promenade

Births

• 21 May – Suzanne Lilar, writer (died 1992)
• 3 November – Leopold III of Belgium (died 1983)
• 25 December – Marie-Noële Kelly, traveller and hostess (died 1995)

Deaths

• 20 January – Zénobe Gramme (born 1826), electrical engineer
• 18 February – Egide Walschaerts (born 1820), inventor
• 30 May – Victor D'Hondt (born 1841), lawyer and mathematician
• 22 October – Alfred Ronner (born 1851), artist

References