1869 in Belgium
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See also: | Other events of 1869 List of years in Belgium |
Events in the year 1869 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold II
- Head of government: Walthère Frère-Orban
Events
- Epidemic of typhoid fever in Brussels.
- Brussels-South railway station opens.[1]: 689
- February
- 20 February – Belgian senate passes a law prohibiting any French company from purchasing Belgian railways.[2]: 860
- April
- 12 April – Metalworkers' strike at Cockerill in Seraing violently repressed[1]: 688 (inspiring Karl Marx to write The Belgian Massacres).
- 25 April – Protocol signed to settle railway disputes between France and Belgium.[2]: 869
- May
- 31 May – Horse-drawn buses introduced in Brussels.[1]: 689
- September
- 8 September – Belgian railways introduce cheap workers' season tickets.[1]: 689
Publications
- Periodicals
- Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)[3]
- Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 6[4]
- Collection de précis historiques, vol. 18, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[5]
- Studies and reports
- Édouard van den Corput, Origine et cause de l'epidémie de fièvre typhoide qui a règné à Bruxelles en 1869 (Brussels).
- Jean-Auguste Jourdain, Dictionnaire encyclopédique de géographie historique du royaume en Belgique[6]
- Literature
- Maria Doolaeghe Najaarsvruchten
Births
- 5 April – Isabelle Errera, art historian (died 1929)
- 3 June – Prince Baudouin of Belgium (died 1891)
Deaths
- 22 January – Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne (born 1859).[2]: 857
- 4 February – Johan Michiel Dautzenberg (born 1808), poet and educationalist.
- 26 August – Henri Leys (born 1815), painter.[2]: 883
- 11 October – François-Joseph Navez (born 1787), painter.[1]: 690
- 3 November – Cornelis Broeckx (born 1807), physician and bibliophile
References
- ^ a b c d e Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
- ^ a b c d Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871).
- ^ "Almanach royal officiel de Belgique". 1869.
- ^ "Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique". 1864.
- ^ On Google Books
- ^ vol. 1, vol. 2
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