1876 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1876 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1876 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II

Head of government: Jules Malou

Events

Leopold I's remains transferred to the royal crypt in Laken, 20 April 1876

• 20 April – Leopold I's mortal remains transferred to the crypt of the Church of Our Lady of Laeken
• 13 June – Partial legislative election
• 12 September – Brussels Geographic Conference opens, leading to the foundation of the International African Association
• 27 September – Opening of the International Congress of Hygiene and Life-Saving Equipment in Brussels, as part of the International Exhibition of Hygiene.[1]

Publications

Periodicals

• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 45 (Brussels, F. Hayez).[2]
• Revue de Belgique, 23.[3]
• Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère, 2.[4]

Other

• Léon d'Andrimont, La coopération ouvrière en Belgique.[5]

Art and architecture

Buildings

• Oostakker Basilica completed

Births

• 1 March
  • Henri de Baillet-Latour, IOC president (died 1942)
  • Maurice Emile Marie Goetghebuer, entomologist (died 1962)
• 7 April – Jules Degeetere, cyclist (died 1957)
• 26 June – Armand Renier, geologist (died 1951)
• 16 July – Victor van Strydonck de Burkel, general (died 1961)
• 2 August – Julien Lootens, cyclist (died 1942)
• 19 August – Oscar de Somville, Olympic rower (died 1938)
• 8 September – Thomas Braun, poet (died 1961)
• 12 September – Flor Alpaerts, composer (died 1954)
• 26 September – Georges Lebacq, painter (died 1950)
• 18 October – Charles van den Bussche, Olympic sailor (died 1958)
• 17 November – Joseph Van De Meulebroeck, politician (died 1958)
• 16 December – Rodolphe Seeldrayers, FIFA president (died 1955)

Deaths

• 7 January – Marie Thérèse Haze (born 1782), religious foundress
• 16 April – Auguste de Peellaert (born 1793), soldier and artist
• 17 April – Adolphe Pierre Sunaert (born 1825), artist and teacher
• 23 May – Victor de Buck (born 1817), Jesuit
• 23 August – Giovanni Inchindi (born 1798), opera singer
• 29 October – Jacques Gregoir (born 1817), composer

References

1. Congrès international d'hygiène, de sauvetage et d'économie sociale, vol. 1, vol. 2
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ea9oAAAAcAAJ
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=6V02AQAAMAAJ
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=ONDNAAAAMAAJ
5. On Google Books