1861 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1861 in Belgium .

Incumbents

Monarchy of Belgium: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

January

• 1 January – Franco-Belgian Tirailleurs renamed Papal Zouaves. ^[1]

February

• 7 February – François Robyn (Br Hugo in religion) sentenced to death at the Court of assizes in Mons for arson at Scourmont Priory the previous October. ^[2]

May

• 1 May – Commercial treaty with France modelled on the Anglo-French commercial treaty of 1860. ^[3]
• 19 May – Association "Vlamingen Vooruit!" organises mass meeting in Brussels ^[4]
• 27 May – Commercial treaty with France ratified.

June

• 1 June – Commercial treaty with France comes into effect.
• 11 June – Partial legislative elections of 1861

July

• 20 July – Signing of Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation between Belgium and Mexico negotiated by Auguste t'Kint. ^[5]

October

• 1 October – Commercial treaty between Britain, France and Belgium comes into effect. ^[6]
• 10 October – Commercial treaty with the Ottoman Empire signed at Constantinople by Gaston Errembault de Dudzeele for Belgium and by Esad Safvet and Mohammed Djemil for the Sublime Porte. ^[7]

Publications

Periodicals

• Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 27 ^[8]
• La Belgique Horticole , vol. 11. ^[9]
• Bulletin de la Fédération des Sociétés d'Horticulture ^[10]
• Bulletin Usuel des Lois et Arrêtés, 1539–1813 (Brussels) ^[11]
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 10, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J. ^[12]
• La Tribune du peuple (Brussels) begins publication
• Revue belge et étrangère, 12 ^[13]
• Het Vlaemsch Verbond begins publication ^[4]

Reports and pamphlets

• Bulletin administratif du Ministère de l'Intérieur, series 1 (1830–1847), vol. 1 (1830-1831). ^[14]
• Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de Belgique, vol. 48 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge) ^{[15] [16]}
• Charles Le Hardy de Beaulieu, L'Espagne et son avenir commercial: Des relations à créer entre la Belgique et l'Espagne (Brussels: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie.)

Literary and historical writing

• Adolphe Borgnet, Histoire des Belges à la fin du XVIIIe siècle ^[17]
• Charles De Coster, Contes brabançons
• Gustave Oppelt, Histoire générale et chronologique de la Belgique, de 1830 à 1860 (Brussels, M. Hayez) ^[18]
• Auguste Scheler, Trente années de la littérature belge (Brussels: Aug. Schnée) ^[19]
• J.L.D. Sleeckx, Beschryving der Provincie Braband (Ghent: I.S. Van Doosselaere) ^[20]
• William Henry James Weale, Notes sur Jean van Eyck (Brussels: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie; London: Barthes & Lowell)

Music

• Barthélemy-Antoine Bauwens, Le plain-chant mis à la portée de tout le monde (Paris and Brussels: Casterman)
• Henri Vieuxtemps, Violin Concerto No. 5

Births

• Elisabeth Wesmael, graphic artist (died 1953)
• 6 January – Victor Horta, architect (died 1947)
• 11 March – Francis Dhanis, colonial administrator (died 1909)
• 2 April – Ernest van Dyck, singer (died 1923)
• 20 April – Arthur Van Gehuchten, anatomist (died 1914)
• 5 July – Fernand Cocq, politician (died 1940)
• 12 July – Eugène Broerman, painter (died 1932)
• 13 August – Fernand Brouez, magazine publisher (died 1900)
• 16 August – Diana Coomans, painter (died 1952)
• 27 August – Aloïs de Beule, sculptor (died 1935)
• 1 September – Louis Bernheim, general (died 1931)
• 3 September – Ursmer Berlière, historian (died 1932)
• 9 October – Privat Livemont, artist (died 1936)
• 21 October – Charles van Lerberghe, poet (died 1907)
• 3 November – Louis Ruquoy, soldier (died 1937)
• 6 November – Germain Morin, patrologist (died 1946)
• 10 December – Guillaume Van Strydonck, painter (died 1937)

Deaths

• 5 April – Ferdinand de Meeûs (born 1798), politician
• 8 April – Édouard Wacken (born 1819), poet and dramatist
• 24 September – Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler (born 1799), horticulturalist
• 27 October – Marcellin Jobard (born 1792), photographer
• 3 December – Henry Voordecker (born 1779), painter
• 25 December – Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout (born 1793), painter

References

1. Joseph Powell, Two Years in the Pontifical Zouaves (London: R. Washburne, 1871), p. 2.
2. "Incendie du couvent des Trappistes – Le frère Robyn accusé", La Belgique judiciaire, vol. 19, no. 15 (21 February 1861), 233-235.
3. C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 27-35. On Google Books
4. Marc Reynebeau, "Het Vlaemsch Verbond als politiek experiment (Gent, 1861–1862)", BMGN , 96/3 (1981), pp. 491-508.
5. Charles Terlinden, "T'Kint, Auguste-Pierre-Joseph", Biographie Nationale de Belgique , vol. 25 Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Brussels, 1932), 368–371.
6. Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 612.
7. Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de Belgique, vol. 49 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge, 1862), pp. 27-35. On Google Books.
8. "Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique". 1861.
9. Belgique Horticole on Google Books.
10. Bulletin d'Horticulture on Google Books.
11. Bulletin Usuel on Google Books.
12. Collection de précis historiques on Google Books.
13. Revue belge, vol. 12 on Google Books.
14. Bulletin administratif, 1 on Google Books.
15. Recueil des lois on Google Books.
16. Index of the Recueil des lois, 1830–1860)
17. Histoire des Belges at Internet Archive.
18. Histoire générale on Google Books.
19. Bibliotheca Belgica on Google Books.
20. Beschryving der Provincie Braband on Google Books.