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The following lists events that happened during 1888 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II^[1]
Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert^[2]

Events

Belgian State Railways Type 12 taken into service.

Jan Verhas, Sir Polydore de Keyser's visit to Dendermonde (1891)

27 May – Provincial elections
12 June – Partial legislative elections of 1888
August – Preaching of Charles Lavigerie in Brussels Minster inspires the founding of the Belgian Anti-Slavery Society
26-27 August – Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of London, visits Dendermonde

Publications

Periodicals

Het Laatste Nieuws begins publication

Studies

Theodore Low De Vinne, Christopher Plantin, and the Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp (Grolier Club, New York)^[3]

Literature

J.-H. Rosny, Les Xipéhuz
Émile Verhaeren, Les Soirs and Les Débâcles

Art and architecture

Robert Alott, Am Strand von Ostende (1888)

Paintings

Robert Alott, Am Strand von Ostende
Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Alice Sethe

Opera

Patrie! performed at Ghent (25 January) and Antwerp (6 March)

Births

2 February – Valerius Coucke, biblical scholar (died 1951)
19 February – Hector Tiberghien, cyclist (died 1951)
29 February – Fanny Heldy, opera singer (died 1973)
4 March – Charles Leirens, photographer and musician (died 1963)
19 March – Léon Scieur, coureur cycliste (died 1969)
23 May – Dieudonné Saive, small arms designer (died 1970)
14 July – Odile Defraye, cyclist (died 1965)
11 August – Paul Loicq, hockey administrator (died 1953)
16 October – Émile Masson, cyclist (died 1973)
2 December – Omer Verschoore, cyclist (died 1932)

Deaths

8 January – Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans (born 1811), painter
6 February – Gaston Errembault de Dudzeele (born 1819), diplomat
17 July – Henricus Franciscus Bracq (born 1804), bishop of Ghent
20 July – Henri de Braekeleer (born 1840), painter
15 August – Alexandre Jamar (born 1821), businessman
8 October – Jules d'Anethan (born 1803), politician

References

^ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
^ "In Memoriam", American Journal of International Law, 7 (1913), pp. 371-374. On Internet Archive.
^ "Christopher Plantin, and the Plantin-Moretus museum at Antwerp". 1888.

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