Events in the year 1902 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold II Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer
Events 6 February – Contract signed for the Belgian concession of Tianjin. 11 February – Police and universal suffrage demonstrators are involved in a physical altercation in Brussels. 18 April – Clashes in Leuven between the civic guard and demonstrators for universal manhood suffrage leave six workers dead and fourteen injured. 25 May – Belgian general election, 1902Nohlen & Stöver, p308Nohlen & Stöver, p295 15 June – Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges opens (to 5 October). 3 July – Prince Albert and Princess Elisabeth visit Bruges for the Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges. 17–25 August – "Groeninghefeesten": pageants and celebrations to mark the sixth centenary of the Battle of the Golden Spurs in Kortrijk.Em. de Visschere, Eeuwfeesten 1302-1902 naar Groeninge (Bruges, Van de Vyvere-Petyt for Davidsfonds, 1902. 19 August – Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent, consecrates the new abbey church of Dendermonde Abbey, built in Gothic Revival style. 3–7 September – Fourteenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Namur.C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65. 15 November – Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino fails to assassinate Leopold II.Paul F. State, Historical Dictionary of Brussels, 2nd edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), p. 249.
Publications
Studies and reports Annuaire de la Législation du Travail, 1901 (Brussels, Ministère de l'Industrie et du Travail, 1902)
Exhibitions William Henry James Weale, Exposition des Primitifs flamands et d'Art ancien (Bruges, Desclée, De Brouwer)
Scholarship Paul Fredericq, Corpus documentorum inquisitionis haereticae pravitatis Neerlandicae, vol. 5.Digitised by Düsseldorf University Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 1, revised edition. Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 2.
Literature Stijn Streuvels, Langs de wegen
Art and architecture
Buildings Gothic Revival Abbey Church in Dendermonde
Births 21 January – Paul Harsin, historian (died 1983) 3 March — Hélène Mallebrancke, civil engineer and resister (died 1940) 19 March – Louisa Ghijs, actress (died 1985) 11 July – Leo Collard, politician (died 1981) 21 August – Omer Becu, trade unionist (died 1982) 10 November – Jean Denis, collaborator (died 1992)
Deaths 23 November – Cornelius Van Leemputten (born 1841), painter
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