1896 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II
• Prime Minister: Jules de Burlet, Paul de Smet de Naeyer

  Events

• 7 January – Official founding of the Belgian Automobile Club.
• 25 April – Murder of Delphina-Angelica Borée in Brussels.
• 5 July – Belgian general election, 1896

  Publications

• Pol de Mont, Dit zijn Vlaamsche wondersprookjes
• Maurice De Wulf, Études Historiques sur l'Esthétique de Saint Thomas d'Aquin
• Maurice Maeterlinck, Le Trésor des humbles
• Édouard van den Corput, Bruxellensia: Croquis artistiques et historiques
• Emile Vandervelde, L'Evolution industrielle et le collectivisme
• Émile Verhaeren, Les heures claires

  Births

• 11 February – René Joannes-Powell, athlete
• 22 February – Paul van Ostaijen, poet
• 10 April – Jean-Baptiste Piron, soldier
• 14 August – Julien Lehouck, athlete
• 10 October – Omer Corteyn, athlete

  Deaths

• 2 January – Walthère Frère-Orban, politician
• 9 January – Guillaume Vogels, painter
• 6 February – Julie Dorus-Gras, soprano
• 3 March – Constant de Deken, missionary
• 6 May – Constantin Héger, educator
• 11 August – Xavier de Cock, painter
• 9 December – Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein, genealogist