1893 in Belgium

Incumbents

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

  Events

• 12–18 April – general strike to demand universal manhood suffrage.
• 15 April – Social-Christian Christene Volkspartij founded
• 12 August – First Paris–Brussels road cycle race

  Publications

• Annuaire de la section d'art et d'enseignement de la maison du Peuple
• Van Nu en Straks begins publication

• Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 12.
• Chemins de fer, postes, télégraphes, téléphones et marine. Compte rendu des opérations pendant l'année 1892

• Cyriel Buysse, Het recht van de sterkste
• Guido Gezelle, Tijdkrans
• Prosper de Haulleville, Portraits et silhouettes, vol. 2
• Émile Verhaeren, Les campagnes hallucinées

  Art and architecture

• Les XX disband
• La Libre Esthétique founded

• Victor Horta, Hôtel Tassel completed

• Eugène Laermans, Evening strike

• 17 May – Premiere of Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelléas et Mélisande

  Births

• 2 January – Félix Sellier, cyclist
• 12 January – Victor Lenaers, cyclist
• 20 February – Gabrielle Petit, patriot
• 23 March
• *Robert de Foy, head of the State Security Service
• *René Vermandel, cyclist
• 4 September – Robert Poulet, writer
• 13 October – René Goormaghtigh, engineer
• 23 October – Jean Absil, composer
• 11 November – Paul van Zeeland, politician
• 9 December – Prosper Dezitter, collaborationist

  Deaths

• 23 January – Eugène-François de Block, artist
• 27 January – Alfred Belpaire, locomotive engineer
• 28 January – Gustave Léonard de Jonghe, painter
• 24 May – Félix Nève, Orientalist
• 11 July – Eugène Simonis, sculptor
• 7 November – Constant Lievens, Jesuit priest
• 20 November – Léopold Harzé, sculptor