1882 in Belgium
The following lists events that happened during 1882 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
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Incumbents
Events
Mounted Iguanodon skeleton (1882)
- Louis Dollo reconstructs the iguanodons found in Bernissart.
- 7 January – Léon and Armand Peltzer murder Guillaume Bernays at 159 Rue de la Loi, Brussels (the Peltzer Case).
- 6 May – North Sea Fisheries Convention signed, to come into effect in 1884.
- 31 July – Désiré-Joseph Mercier appointed to the new chair in Thomist philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain.[2]
- 27 November – The Peltzer Case comes to trial before the Brussels Court of assizes.
- December – Jean-Charles Houzeau leads a scientific expedition to San Antonio, Texas, to observe a transit of Venus in order to determine the solar parallax.[3]
Publications
- Periodicals
- Bulletins de l'Acadie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 3rd series, vol. 4[4]
- Conference proceedings
- Congrès international de l'enseignement, Bruxelles, 1880: Discussions (Brussels, Librairie de l'Office de Publicité)[5]
Art and architecture
Passage du Nord, Brussels (opened 1882)
- Buildings
- Henri Rieck, Passage du Nord (Brussels)
Births
- 10 January – Eugène Joseph Delporte, astronomer (died 1955)
- 5 February – Georges Dandoy, missionary (died 1962)
- 1 April – Paul Anspach, fencer (died 1981)
- 16 June – Josef Christiaens, driver and aviator (died 1919)
- 10 July – Henri Anspach, fencer (died 1979)
- 15 July – Albert Hustin, doctor (died 1967)
- 2 September – Nico Gunzburg, criminologist (died 1984)
- 19 October – Norbert Wallez, newspaper editor (died 1952)
Deaths
- 7 February – Édouard De Bièfve (born 1808), painter
- 9 July – Louis-Charles Verwee (born 1832), painter
- 25 September – Désiré van Monckhoven (born 1834), photographer
- 17 November – Henri Julien Allard (born 1803), politician
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References
- "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- Robert Wielockx, "De Mercier à De Wulf: Débuts de l'École de Louvain", in Gli studi di filosofia medievale fra otto e novecento, edited by Ruedi Imbach and Alfonso Maierù (Rome, 1991), p. 77. Preview on Google Books
- Christiaan Sterken, Jean-Charles Houzeau and the 1882 Belgian Transit of Venus Expeditions, Journal of Astronomical Data 19:1 (2013), 169-180.
- On Internet Archive
- On Internet Archive
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