1868 in Belgium
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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
- 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
- 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
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)
- 23 August – Paul Otlet, bibliographer (died 1944)
- 28 November – Louis Franck, politician (died 1937)
Deaths
- 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
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References
- "Installation de Monseigneur Deschamps". Le Monde illustré. 22. p. 90.
- Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
- Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871).
- https://books.google.com/books?id=J6BCAAAAcAAJ
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