1868 in Belgium
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See also: | Other events of 1868 List of years in Belgium |
Events in the year 1868 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold II
- Head of government: Charles Rogier (to 3 January); Walthère Frère-Orban (from 3 January)
Events
- January
- 3 January – Walthère Frère-Orban replaces Charles Rogier as Prime Minister
- 28 January – Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps enthroned as Archbishop of Mechelen.[1]
- March
- 1 March – Société Libre des Beaux-Arts founded.[2]: 686
- 24 March – 20 killed when soldiers shoot on striking miners from the Epine mine in Dampremy.[2]: 686
- May
- 25 May – Provincial elections
- June
- August
- 6 August – 47 miners killed by a fire damp explosion in the Sainte Henriette mine near Jemappes.[3]: 836
- September
- 7 September – Third international workers congress opens in Brussels.[2]: 687
- October
- 23 October – Frederick Doulton, MP, brought to trial in Brussels on charges of fraud in public works, but acquitted of having broken any law.[3]: 843
Publications
- Periodicals
- Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)[4]
- Collection de précis historiques, vol. 17, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[5]
- Socialist daily newspaper De Werker launched in Antwerp (October).[2]: 686
- Series
- Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 2
- History
- Charles Niellon, Histoire des événements militaires et des conspirations orangistes de la révolution en Belgique de 1830 à 1833 (Brussels, M.J. Poot)[6]
- Literature
- Maria Doolaeghe, Winterbloemen
Art and architecture
- Société Libre des Beaux-Arts founded
- Paintings
- Charles-Philogène Tschaggeny, The Covered Wagon
- Sculptures
- Louis Jehotte's equestrian statue of Charlemagne inaugurated in Liège
Births
- 11 January – François Ruhlmann, conductor (died 1948)
- 5 February – Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer (died 1952)
- 23 February – Paul Bergmans, librarian (died 1935)
- 5 March – Prosper Poullet, politician (died 1937)
- 27 April – Herman Vander Linden, politician (died 1956)
- 18 June – Anna Kernkamp, artist (died 1947)
- 23 August – Paul Otlet, bibliographer (died 1944)
- 15 November – Marguerite Putsage, painter (died 1946)
- 28 November – Louis Franck, politician (died 1937)
Deaths
- 13 February – Dieudonné Stas (born 1791), newspaperman
- 17 April – Guillaume-Hippolyte van Volxem (born 1791), politician
- 30 April – Charles Le Hon (born 1792), politician
- 9 July – Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps (born 1783), military inventor
- 21 July – Édouard Ducpétiaux (born 1804), prison reformer
References
- ^ "Installation de Monseigneur Deschamps". Le Monde illustré. Vol. 22. 1868. p. 90.
- ^ a b c d Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
- ^ a b Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871).
- ^ "Almanach royal officiel de Belgique". 1868.
- ^ On Google Books
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