The following lists events that happened during 1886 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Incumbents
Monarch: Leopold II
Prime Minister: Auguste Marie François Beernaert
Events
18–29 March – Series of strikes and disturbances in industrial areas of Wallonia
22 March – Law on copyright passed. 4 April – Henri-Charles Lambrecht consecrated coadjutor bishop of Ghent 10 April – Soldiers fire on strikers in Roux 23 May – Provincial elections 8 June – Partial legislative elections of 1886 8 July – Royal decree establishing Royal Flemish Academy of Language and Literature
Publications
Periodicals
Het Belfort begins publication
La Wallonie begins publication
Bulletin du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, vol. 4.
Books
Adolphe Burdo, Les Belges dans l'Afrique Centrale: De Zanzibar au lac Tanganika (P. Maes) Jean Stecher, Histoire de la Littérature néerlandaise en Belgique (Brussels, 1886) Émile Verhaeren, Les Moines
Art and architecture
Paintings
Théo van Rysselberghe, Portrait of Marguerite van Mons
Sculptures
Constantin Meunier, The Puddeler
Births
4 February – René-Gabriel van den Hout, priest and editor (died 1969) 12 February – Maurice Bladel, writer (died 1968) 18 May – Marcel Wolfers, sculptor (died 1976)
