1868 in Belgium

1868
in
Belgium

Decades:
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
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
March
June
  • 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1868
August
  • 6 August – 47 miners killed by a fire damp explosion in the Sainte Henriette mine near Jemappes.[3]:836
September
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
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

Births

Deaths

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References

  1. "Installation de Monseigneur Deschamps". Le Monde illustré. 22. p. 90.
  2. Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
  3. Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871).
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=J6BCAAAAcAAJ
  5. On Google Books
  6. On Google Books
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