1883 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1883 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

← 1882 1881 1880 1883 in Belgium → 1884 1885 1886
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1883 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II
• Prime Minister: Walthère Frère-Orban

Events

Palais de Justice, Brussels (inaugurated 15 October 1883)

• 20 March – Belgium a signatory to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property.
• 5 to 10 June – Third International Eucharistic Congress held in Liège, with over 10,000 in attendance.
• 15 October – Inauguration of Palais de Justice, Brussels.
• 28 October – Founding meeting of the art association Les XX.
• 6 December – Steamer Plantyn abandoned in the North Atlantic after being damaged in a storm.

Publications

• Frans Jozef Peter van den Branden, Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche Schilder-school.
• Émile Verhaeren, Les Flamandes

Art and architecture

Fernand Khnopff, Listening to Schumann (1883)

Paintings

• Fernand Khnopff, Listening to Schumann; Portrait de Mademoiselle Van der Hecht

Buildings

• Joseph Poelaert, Palais de Justice, Brussels

Births

• 18 February – Jacques Ochs, artist and fencer (died 1971)
• 21 March – Jules Van Nuffel, priest and musicologist (died 1953)
• 1 April – Albert-Édouard Janssen, banker (died 1966)
• 3 April – Frits Van den Berghe, painter (died 1939)
• 22 April – Joseph Jacquemotte, anarcho-syndicalist (died 1936)
• 13 May – Caroline Lacroix, royal mistress (died 1948)
• 24 June – Arthur Devère, film actor (died 1961)
• 29 June – Fernand Bosmans, fencer (died 1960)
• 3 July – Pierre Charles (Jesuit) (died 1954)
• 25 July – Félix de Roy, astronomer (died 1942)
• 27 July – Fernand Verhaegen, artist (died 1975)
• 2 September – Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (died 1963)
• 4 September – Karel Candael, composer (died 1948)
• 8 September – Théodore Pilette, racing driver (died 1921)
• 12 December – Leon van der Essen, historian (died 1963)
• 16 December – Cyrille van Hauwaert, cyclist (died 1974)
• 23 December – Hubert Pierlot, politician (died 1963)
• 30 December – Marie Gevers, novelist (died 1975)

Deaths

• 5 February – Jonathan-Raphaël Bischoffsheim (born 1808), banker
• 1 May – Octave Pirmez (born 1832), author
• 16 May – Ferdinand de Braekeleer the Elder (born 1792), painter
• 15 September – Joseph Plateau (born 1801), mathematician
• 29 November – Elisabeth Dieudonné Vincent (born 1798), Haitian-born businesswoman
• 3 December – André Jolly (born 1799), politician