1890 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch - Leopold II
• Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert

  Events

• 27 May – Belgian National Day is made a legal holiday
• 10 June – Belgian general election, 1890
• 2 July – Brussels Conference Act of 1890
• 21 July – first observance of Belgian National Day
• 16–21 August – Seventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Antwerp, with an estimated 150,000 participants.
• establishment of Sint-Leocollege in Bruges

  Publications

• Sylvain Balau, Soixante-dix ans d'histoire contemporaine de Belgique , 3rd edition, with a preface by Charles Woeste.
• Prosper de Haulleville, Les nonciatures apostoliques en Belgique depuis 1830
• Paul Fredericq and Henrietta Leonard, The Study of History in Holland and Belgium
• Iwan Gilkin, La Damnation de l'artiste
• Alexis Marie Gochet, Les Congolais: leurs moeurs et usages. Histoire, géographie et ethnographie de l'état indépendant du Congo
• Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke, La Lutte de l'Irlande

  Births

• 1 January – Alphonse Six, footballer
• 5 March – Ann Codee, actress
• 10 October – Jan Vanderheyden, film-maker
• 13 November – Oscar Blansaer, Olympic athlete

  Deaths

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