1887 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1887 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

• Monarch: Leopold II^[1]
• Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert^[2]

• Progressive Party founded, led by Paul Janson
• 24 February – The first international telephone line in Europe is opened to the public between Brussels and Paris^[3]
• 24 August – Soldiers fire upon Ostend trawlermen protesting the favouritism shown to British trawlermen
• 21 December – Achel Abbey buys the buildings of Rochefort Abbey to restore the monastery there

Periodicals

• Le Soir begins publication

Books

• Alphonse Dubois, Faune des vertébrés de la Belgique: Série des oiseaux (Brussels, A la librairie C. Muquardt, Th. Falk Sr), vol. 1^[4]

• Brussels City Museum inaugurated

Paintings

• James Ensor, Carnaval sur la plage
• Fernand Khnopff, Portrait of Marguerite Khnopff

Buildings

• Franz Seulen, Schaarbeek railway station
• Work starts on Provinciaal Hof, Bruges

• 6 January – Berthe Bovy, actress (died 1977)
• 14 January – Félix Rousseau, historian (died 1981)
• 28 March – Pierre Nothomb, writer (died 1966)
• 23 April – Georges-Marie de Jonghe d'Ardoye, papal diplomat (died 1961)
• 8 June – Émile Dupont, Olympic marksman (died 1959)
• 25 October – Léon Darrien, gymnast (died 1973)
• 27 October – Philippe Le Hardy de Beaulieu, fencer (died 1942)
• 23 November – Paul de Maleingreau, composer (died 1956)

• 11 February – François Laurent (born 1810), historian
• 4 March – Peter Jan Beckx (born 1795), Jesuit
• 16 July – Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck (born 1809), palaeontologist
• 17 July – Nicaise De Keyser (born 1813), painter
• 20 November – Louis Gallait (born 1810), painter
• 29 December – Jules Van Praet (born 1806), diplomat