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Events in the year 1874 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II
Head of government: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 21 August); Jules Malou (from 21 August)

Events

  • 20 January – Royal decree providing for subsidies to the dramatic arts.
  • 19 March – Extradition treaty with the United States of America.
  • 25 May – Provincial elections
  • 1 June – Service starts on Brussels–Charleroi railway line. Nivelles railway station inaugurated.
  • 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1874
  • 21 August – Prime Minister Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt dies in office; succeeded by Jules Malou
  • 2 September – Convention with The Netherlands for improvements to the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal signed in Brussels.[1]
  • 10 September – Postal convention with Peru signed in Brussels.[2]
  • 24 December – Extradition treaty with the German Empire, replacing earlier treaties with individual German states.[3]

Publications

  • Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique. 1874. (Brussels).[4]
  • Émile de Laveleye, De la Proprieté et de ses Formes Primitives[5]
  • Eugène Van Bemmel, Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe & Cie., 1874)[6]

Art and architecture

Jean-François Portaels, Juive de Tanger (1874)
Paintings

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ "Convention entre la Belgique et les Pays-Bas pour l'amélioration du canal de Gand à Terneuzen, signée à Bruxelles le 2 septembre 1874". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 2 September 1874.
  2. ^ "Convention postale entre la Belgique et le Perou, signée à Bruxelles le 10 septembre 1874". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 10 September 1874.
  3. ^ "Convention d'extradition entre la Belgique et l'Allemagne, signée à Bruxelles le 24 décembre 1874". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 24 December 1874.
  4. ^ Belgium (1874). "Pasinomie: Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique".
  5. ^ English translation by G.R.L. Marriott, Primitive Property (London, 1878), on Internet Archive
  6. ^ On Google Books
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