1901 in Belgium

← 1900 1899 1898 1901 in Belgium → 1902 1903 1904
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1901 List of years in Belgium

A map of Belgium (1901)

Events in the year 1901 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II
• Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer

Events

The customs depot in Antwerp after the fire of 8 June 1901

• 8 June – Customs depot in Antwerp burns out
• 25 July – Bishop Antoon Stillemans consecrates Church of St Anthony of Padua, Ghent
• 2 August – Deposits of coal discovered at As in the province of Limburg

Publications

Series

• Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 16.
• Maurice De Wulf launches 15-volume collection Les Philosophes Belges
• Ernest Gilliat-Smith, The Story of Bruges, illustrated by Edith Calvert and Herbert Railton (Medieval Towns Series; London, J.M. Dent)
• Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 1.

Studies

• Eugène Demolder, Constantin Meunier (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
• Pol de Mont, Het schildersboek: Vlaamsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, ed. Max Rooses, vol. 5.

Art and architecture

Théo van Rysselberghe, La Promenade (1901)

James Ensor, The Roofs of Ostend (1900–1901)

Paintings

• James Ensor, The Roofs of Ostend
• Théo van Rysselberghe, La Promenade

Births

• 21 May – Suzanne Lilar, writer (died 1992)
• 3 November – Leopold III of Belgium (died 1983)
• 25 December – Marie-Noële Kelly, traveller and hostess (died 1995)

Deaths

Commemorative medal with a portrait of Peter Benoit (1834–1901)

• 20 January – Zénobe Gramme (born 1826), electrical engineer
• 18 February – Egide Walschaerts (born 1820), inventor
• 8 March – Peter Benoit (born 1834), composer
• 30 May – Victor D'Hondt (born 1841), lawyer and mathematician
• 7 July – Euphrosine Beernaert (born 1831), landscape painter
• 24 August – Victor Joseph Doutreloux (born 1837), bishop of Liège
• 22 October – Alfred Ronner (born 1851), artist