1902 in Belgium

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6 February – Contract signed for the Belgian concession of Tianjin.
18 April – Clashes in Leuven between the civic guard and demonstrators for universal manhood suffrage leave six workers dead and fourteen injured.^[2]
25 May – Belgian general election, 1902^[3]^[4]^[5]
15 June – Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges opens (to 5 October).
3 July – Prince Albert and Princess Elisabeth visit Bruges for the Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges.
17–25 August – "Groeninghefeesten": pageants and celebrations to mark the sixth centenary of the Battle of the Golden Spurs in Kortrijk.^[6]
19 August – Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent, consecrates the new abbey church of Dendermonde Abbey, built in Gothic Revival style.
3–7 September – Fourteenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Namur.^[7]^[8]
15 November – Italian anarchist Gennaro Rubino fails to assassinate Leopold II.^[9]

Annuaire de la Législation du Travail, 1901 (Brussels, Ministère de l'Industrie et du Travail, 1902)

William Henry James Weale, Exposition des Primitifs flamands et d'Art ancien (Bruges, Desclée, De Brouwer)^[10]

Paul Fredericq, Corpus documentorum inquisitionis haereticae pravitatis Neerlandicae, vol. 5.^[11]
Henri Pirenne, Histoire de Belgique, vol. 1, revised edition.^[12]
Joseph Van den Gheyn, Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, vol. 2.^[13]

^ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
^ "Vooruit".
^ Nohlen, Dieter; Stöver, Philip (31 May 2010). Elections in Europe: A data handbook. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. p. 289. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7.
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p308
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p295
^ Em. de Visschere, Eeuwfeesten 1302-1902 naar Groeninge (Bruges, Van de Vyvere-Petyt for Davidsfonds, 1902.
^ C. J. Kirkfleet, "International Eucharistic Congresses", Catholic Historical Review, 12:1 (1926), pp. 59–65.
^ "Inventaire des Congrès Eucharistiques Internationaux". pwt.wroc.pl. Papieski Wydział Teologiczny we Wrocławiu. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
^ Paul F. State, Historical Dictionary of Brussels, 2nd edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), p. 249.
^ "Exposition des primitifs flamands et d'art ancien : Bruges : 15 juin au 15 septembre, 1902 : Première section, tableaux : Catalogue". 1902.
^ Digitised by Düsseldorf University
^ Pirenne, Henri (1902). "Histoire de Belgique".
^ "Digital Viewer by KBR".

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