1886 in Belgium

← 1885 1884 1883 1886 in Belgium → 1887 1888 1889
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1886 List of years in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1886 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

Soldiers fire on strikers in Roux, 10 April 1886

• 18–29 March – Series of strikes and disturbances in industrial areas of Wallonia
• 22 March – Law on copyright passed.
• 4 April – Henri-Charles Lambrecht consecrated coadjutor bishop of Ghent
• 10 April – Soldiers fire on strikers in Roux
• 23 May – Provincial elections
• 8 June – Partial legislative elections of 1886
• 8 July – Royal decree establishing Royal Flemish Academy of Language and Literature

Publications

Periodicals

• Het Belfort begins publication
• La Wallonie begins publication
• Bulletin du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, vol. 4.

Books

• Adolphe Burdo, Les Belges dans l'Afrique Centrale: De Zanzibar au lac Tanganika (P. Maes)
• Jean Stecher, Histoire de la Littérature néerlandaise en Belgique (Brussels, 1886)
• Émile Verhaeren, Les Moines

Art and architecture

Constantin Meunier, The Puddeler (1886)

Paintings

• Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Marguerite van Mons

Sculptures

• Constantin Meunier, The Puddeler

Births

• 4 February – René-Gabriel van den Hout, priest and editor (died 1969)
• 12 February – Maurice Bladel, writer (died 1968)
• 18 May – Marcel Wolfers, sculptor (died 1976)

Deaths

• 9 February – Edmond Speelman (born 1819), Jesuit
• 30 March – Jean-Joseph Charlier (born 1794), revolutionary
• 5 July – Charles Baugniet (born 1814), artist
• 11 July – Jules Malou (born 1810), politician
• 6 August – Jean-François Abeloos (born 1819), sculptor