1860 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1860 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1860 in Belgium .

Incumbents

Monarchy of Belgium: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

Xavier Mellery, The Abolition of the Tolls in 1860 (1890)

• 28 May – Provincial elections
• 9 July – Belgian consulate in Damascus destroyed during anti-Christian pogroms. ^[1]
• 18 July – Duties charged on goods brought from the countryside into towns abolished. ^[2]
• 7 October – One of the monks sets fire to the church and one of the dormitories at Scourmont Priory. ^[3]
• 16 November – Execution of Jan Coucke and Pieter Goethals.

Publications

Periodicals

• Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère , vol. 8. ^{[4] [5]}
• Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 26. ^[6]
• Annuaire militaire officiel, 14. ^[7]
• La Belgique Horticole , 10. ^[8]
• La Belgique ^[9]
• Bulletin du bibliophile belge, 16 ^[10]
• Collection de précis historiques, 9, edited by Edouard Terwecoren ^[11]

Monographs and reports

• La Belgique en 1860 (Brussels, Philippe Hen). ^[12]
• Manifestation nationale du peuple belge en 1860 (Brussels, E. Guyot, and Haarlem, J. J. Weeveringh). ^[13]
• Recueil des pièces imprimées par ordre de la Chambre des Représentants, vol. 1. ^[14]
• Louis Hymans, Histoire populaire de la Belgique (Brussels and Leipzig, Auguste Schnée) ^[15]
• F. Prové, De la question monétaire en Belgique (Brussels, J.-B. Tarride). ^[16]

Guidebooks

• A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland (London, John Murray). ^[17]

Literature

• Joseph Octave Delepierre, A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature and its Celebrated Authors from the Twelfth Century to the Present Time (London, John Murray). ^[18]
• Jules de Saint-Genois, Profils et portraits

Births

• 12 January – Charles Lemonnier, politician (died 1930)
• 24 February – Max Waller, writer (died 1889)
• 11 March – Rodolphe Wytsman, painter (died 1927)
• 2 April – Paul Costermans, colonial administrator (died 1905)
• 13 April – James Ensor, painter (died 1949)
• 2 May – Heva Coomans, painter (died 1939)
• 23 June – Albert Giraud, poet (died 1929)
• 28 June – Aloïs Biebuyck, officer (died 1944)
• 12 August – Ernest Baert, explorer (died 1894)
• 26 August – Luis Siret, archaeologist (died 1934)
• 4 December – Charles de Broqueville, politician (died 1940)
• 15 December – Alphonse Michaux, engraver (died 1928)
• 30 December – Leon Mazy, muralist (died 1938)

Deaths

• 1 April – Joseph Guislain (born 1797), physician
• 20 April – Charles de Brouckère (born 1796), politician
• 27 April – John E. Blox (born 1810), Jesuit
• 11 September – Jean-Baptiste Masui (born 1798), civil engineer
• 27 September – Charles-Joseph, 4th Duke d'Ursel (born 1777), politician
• 10 October – Jules Victor Génisson (born 1805), painter
• 13 October – Egide Linnig (born 1821), artist
• 22 October – Pieter Vanderghinste (born 1789), composer

References

1. Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 577.
2. "Loi du 18 juillet 1860 portant abolition des octrois communaux". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 18 July 1860.
3. "Incendie du couvent des Trappistes – Le frère Robyn accusé", La Belgique judiciaire, vol. 19, no. 15 (21 February 1861), 233-235.
4. Annales de pomologie on Wikisource (French).
5. Annales de pomologie on Google Books.
6. Annuaire de l'Académie Royale. Vol. 26.
7. Annuaire militaire, vol. 14 on Google Books.
8. La Belgique Horticole, vol. 10 on Google Books.
9. La Belgique, vol. 9, vol. 10 on Google Books.
10. Bulletin du bibliophile belge, vol. 16 on Google Books.
11. Collection de précis historiques, vol. 9 on Google Books.
12. La Belgique en 1860 on Google Books.
13. Manifestation nationale on Google Books.
14. Recueil des pièces on Google Books.
15. Histoire populaire on Google Books.
16. De la question monétaire on Google Books.
17. Handbook for Travellers on Google Books.
18. A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature online at the Austrian National Library.