1870 in Belgium

1870
in
Belgium

Decades:
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
See also:Other events of 1870
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1870 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II
Head of government: Walthère Frère-Orban (to 16 June); Jules d'Anethan (from 2 July)

Events

March
  • 4 March – Law on Temporalities establishes state oversight of parish finances.
June
  • 3 June – new conscription law, expanding numbers but retaining selection by lottery.[1]:690
  • 11 June – Partial legislative elections of 1870 return a hung parliament
  • 16 June – Walthère Frère-Orban resigns as Prime Minister
  • 18 June – Affligem Abbey, closed in 1796, refounded.
July
August
September

Publications

Periodicals
  • Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)[3]
  • Annuaire statistique de la Belgique begins publication (Brussels, Imprimerie de Delevingne et Callewaert)[4]
  • L'Illustration Européenne begins publication (Brussels, Bureaux de l'Administration)[5]
Official studies and reports
  • Épidémie typhoïde de 1869 (Brussels), report of the commission of inquiry into the 1869 epidemic of typhoid fever
Books
  • Émile de Borchgrave, Histoire des rapports de droit public qui existèrent entre les provinces belges et l'Empire d'Allemagne depuis le démembrement de la monarchie carolingienne jusqu'à l'incorporation de la Belgique à la République française (Brussels, 1870)[6]
  • Prosper de Haulleville, De l'enseignement primaire en Belgique[7]
  • Prosper de Haulleville, La Nationalité belge; ou Flamands et Wallons[8]
  • Émile de Laveleye, La Russie et l'Autriche depuis Sadowa
  • Émile de Laveleye, "Land System of Belgium and Holland", in Systems of Land Tenure in Various Countries (London, Macmillan & Co.)[9]
  • François Merten, Géographie industrielle et commerciale de la Belgique (Ghent, H. Hoste)[10]
  • Adolphe Quetelet, Anthropométrie, ou Mesure des différentes facultés de l'homme (Brussels, Leipzig and Ghent)

Science

Art and architecture

Births

Deaths

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References

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