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← 1889 1888 1887 1890 in Belgium → 1891 1892 1893
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1890 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1890 in Belgium.

• Monarch - Leopold II^[1]
• Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert^[2]

• 25 May – Provincial elections
• 27 May – Belgian National Day is made a legal holiday
• 10 June – Belgian general election, 1890
• 2 July – Brussels Conference Act of 1890 (anti-slavery convention)
• 21 July – first observance of 21 July as Belgian National Day; king lays the foundation stone of the Arcade du Cinquantenaire in Brussels.^[3]
• 16 to 21 August – Seventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Antwerp, with an estimated 150,000 participants.^[4]
• establishment of Sint-Leocollege in Bruges

• Sylvain Balau, Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique (1815-1884), 3rd edition, with a preface by Charles Woeste (Liège, L. Grandmont-Donders, and Ghent, A. Siffer).^[5]
• Dom Bernard, Geschiedenis der Benedictijner Abdij van Affligem (Ghent, A. Siffer)^[6]
• Prosper de Haulleville, Les nonciatures apostoliques en Belgique depuis 1830
• Paul Fredericq, The Study of History in Holland and Belgium, translated by Henrietta Leonard (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press)^[7]
• Iwan Gilkin, La Damnation de l'artiste (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
• Alexis Marie Gochet, Les Congolais: leurs moeurs et usages. Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo (Liège, H. Dessain)^[8]
• Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke, La Lutte de l'Irlande (Lille, Société de Saint-Augustin)^[9]

• 1 January – Alphonse Six, footballer (died 1914)
• 5 March – Ann Codee, actress (died 1961)
• 25 June – Camille Tihon, archivist (died 1972)
• 10 October – Jan Vanderheyden, film-maker (died 1961)
• 13 November – Oscar Blansaer, Olympic athlete (died 1962)

• 2 March – Eudore Pirmez (born 1830), politician
• 22 March – Désiré de Haerne (born 1804), priest
• 11 May – Eugène Albert (born 1816), clarinet maker
• 23 May – Louis Artan (born 1837), artist
• 5 July – Pierre Van Humbeeck (born 1829), politician
• 3 September – Willem Linnig the Younger (born 1842), artist
• 22 September – Joanna Courtmans (born 1811), writer
• 23 October – Charles Verlat (born 1824), painter
• 16 November – Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler (born 1819), philologist
• 19 December – César De Paepe (born 1841), syndicalist
• 21 December – Eugène Anspach (born 1833), governor of the national bank

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