1889 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1889 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

← 1888 1887 1886 1889 in Belgium → 1890 1891 1892
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1889 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

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

Events

Defence lawyers at the Mons subversion trial, May 1889

• 6-25 May – Subversion trial in Mons reveals activity of security service agents provocateurs in the Parti socialiste républicain
• 3 July – FN Herstal arms manufactory founded
• 8 November – Higher Institute of Philosophy founded at Catholic University of Leuven

Publications

• Napoléon de Pauw, Obituarium Sancti Johannis: Nécrologe de l'église St. Jean (St. Bavon) à Gand, du XIIIe au XVIe siècle (Brussels, F. Hayez)
• Alexis Marie Gouchet, La traite des nègres et le croisade africaine (Liège)

Art and architecture

Rémy Cogghe, Cockfights in Flanders (1889)

Paintings

• Rémy Cogghe, Cockfights in Flanders
• James Ensor, Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889
• Léon Herbo, Salome
• Fernand Khnopff, Memories
• Constantin Meunier, Firedamp

Births

• 18 March – Floris Jespers, artist (died 1965)
• 25 April – Paul Deman, cyclist (died 1961)
• 26 May – Victor Linart, cyclist (died 1977)
• 6 July – Louis Mottiat, cyclist (died 1972)
• 30 July – Frans Masereel, artist (died 1972)
• 8 October – Philippe Thys, cyclist (died 1971)
• 11 November – Marcel Buysse, cyclist (died 1939)
• 16 December – Joseph Van Daele, cyclist (died 1948)

Deaths

A photograph of Father Damien taken in February or March 1889, a few weeks before his death

• 15 April – Father Damien (born 1840), missionary
• 2 July – Henri-Charles Lambrecht (born 1848), bishop of Ghent
• 6 September – Guillaume d'Aspremont Lynden (born 1815), politician
• 30 September – François-Antoine Bossuet (born 1798), painter
• 16 October – Pierre-Joseph Witdoeck (born 1803), painter