1898 in Belgium

Events in the year 1898 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II{{cite web|title=Leopold II - king of Belgium|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leopold-II-king-of-Belgium|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=14 May 2018|language=en}}
Prime Minister: Paul de Smet de Naeyer{{cite web|title=Gouvernement de Smet de Naeyer I|url=http://www.histoire-des-belges.be/listes/les-gouvernements-de-la-belgique-unitaire/gouvernement-de-smet-de-naeyer-1896-1899-i|website=www.histoire-des-belges.be|language=fr-fr}}

18 April - Coremans-De Vriendt law gives Dutch and French equal legal status in Belgian public life.{{cite book|last1=Koll|first1=Johannes|last2=Geeraedts|first2=Loek|last3=Berteloot|first3=Armand|last4=Missine|first4=Lut|title=Nationale Bewegungen in Belgien|publisher=Waxmann Verlag|isbn=9783830964650|page=112|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7JEPPYMhsNkC&pg=PA112|language=de}}
22 May - Belgian general election, 1898{{cite book|last1=Mackie|first1=Thomas T.|last2=Rose|first2=Richard|title=The International Almanac of Electoral History|date=2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=9781349098514|page=17|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ysS-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA17|language=en}}
5 June – Provincial elections
23 June – Opening of the Château royal d'Ardenne as a luxury hotel run by the Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels.
13–17 July – Eleventh International Eucharistic Congress held in Brussels.C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65.
27 July – Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation comes to an end, due to notification of the United Kingdom's withdrawal a year earlier.

Léon Bloy, Mendiant ingrat (Brussels, Edmond Deman)
J. Nyssens-Hart, The Outer Port and the Inner Port of Bruges (Brussels, A> Lesigne)[http://www.flandrica.be/items/show/995/ Online] at Flandrica.be
Max Rooses (ed.), Het schildersboek: Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw, vol. 1,{{Cite web|url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/roos015schi03_01/|title = Max Rooses, Het schildersboek. Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw. Deel 1 · DBNL}} vol. 2.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/roos015schi04_01/|title = Max Rooses, Het schildersboek. Nederlandsche schilders der negentiende eeuw. Deel 2 · DBNL}}
Emile Vandervelde, Le Socialisme en Belgique
Émile Verhaeren, Les aubes (Brussels, Edmond Deman)

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8 February - André Fierens, footballer (d. 1972){{cite web|title=André FIERENS - Olympic Football|url=https://www.olympic.org/andre-fierens|website=International Olympic Committee|access-date=14 May 2018|language=en|date=15 June 2016}}
5 March – Lucien Leboutte, air chief (d. 1988)
17 March - Raymond Decorte, cyclist (d. 1972){{cite web|title=Raymond Decorte|url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/mob/rider/raymond-decorte|website=www.procyclingstats.com|access-date=14 May 2018}}