page_title: 1899 in Belgium
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1899 in Belgium / Events
caption_attribution_description: Die Belgica bei der Antarktisexpedition 1897-1899
context_page_description: Events in the year 1899 in Belgium.
context_section_description: 24 January – Unable to broker a coherent government policy on demands for proportional representation, Paul de Smet de Naeyer hands over the premiership to his colleague Jules Vandenpeereboom
  14 February – Belgian Antarctic Expedition research vessel Belgica freed from Antarctic ice.
  28–30 June – Violent protests in Brussels demanding introduction of universal manhood suffrage with proportional representation.
  29 July – Belgium among the 26 signatories to the Hague Convention
  31 July – Jules Vandenpeereboom offers his resignation as prime minister due to the failure of his government to pass its proposed legislation for proportional representation.
  23 October – Thomas Louis Heylen succeeds Jean-Baptiste Decrolière as bishop of Liège
  5 November – Belgian Antarctic Expedition arrives back in Antwerp on board research ship Belgica
  24 November – Bill introducing proportional representation on the D'Hondt method passed in the lower house by 70 votes to 63 with 8 abstentions.
  3 December – Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent, suspends Adolf Daens as a diocesan priest due to his political activism for the Christene Volkspartij.
  30 December – Act introducing proportional representation published as law.
caption: The Belgica trapped in Antarctic ice
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