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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]
  • 14 May – Parish of St Anthony of Padua established in newly expanded Heirnis section of Ghent.
  • 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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