1863 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1863 in Belgium .

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

• 9 April – Treaty of amity, commerce and navigation with the Kingdom of Italy signed in Turin. ^[1]
• 12 May – Commercial treaty with the Netherlands, including Dutch agreement to perpetual abolition of tolls on the Scheldt river in return for a payment of 17 million guilders ^{[2] [3]}
• 20 May – Commercial treaty with the United States, bringing relations into line with the free trade agreements already signed with France (1861), the United Kingdom (1862) and the Netherlands (1863). ^[4]
• 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1863
• 16 July – Multilateral treaty for the redemption of the Scheldt tolls signed in Brussels ^[5]
• 27 July – Commercial treaty with the Austrian Empire, bringing relations into line with the free trade agreements already signed with France (1861), the United Kingdom (1862) and the Netherlands (1863). ^[6]
• 1 August – Clipper Marnix van Sinte-Aldegonde the first ship to sail toll-free from Antwerp to the mouth of the Scheldt. ^[7]
• 11 August – State visit of Queen Victoria to Belgium. ^[8]
• 18-22 August – First Catholic Congress in Mechelen.
  • Guild of Saint Thomas and Saint Luke for the study and promotion of Christian art founded
• 19 September – Convention modifying the 1852 postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Brussels. ^[9]
• 26 December – Solvay chemical company founded. ^[10]

Publications

Periodicals

• Annuaire de l'Observatoire Royal de Bruxelles, vol. 31 ^[11]
• La Belgique horticole, edited by Édouard Morren ^[12]
• Bulletin du Bibliophile Belge, vol. 19, edited by A. Scheler (Brussels, F. Heussner) ^[13]
• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, second series, vol. 15 ^[14]
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 12, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J. ^[15]
• Dubbele wegwyzer der stad Gent en der provincie Oost-Vlaenderen, vol. 1 (Ghent, Vanderhaeghen) ^[16]
• Revue belge et étrangère, 15 ^[17]
• Revue Trimestrielle, vol. 38 ^[18]
• Le Timbre-Poste begins publication

Studies and reports

• Prosper de Haulleville, Les Catholiques et les libertés constitutionnelles en Belgique
• Émile de Laveleye, Essai sur l'économie rurale de la Belgique ^[19]

Historical editions

• Louis Galesloot, Procès de François Anneessens: doyen du corps des métiers de Bruxelles, vol. 2 (Brussels and The Hague) ^[20]
• Jehan le Bel, Les vrayes chroniques, edited by Lambert Polain, vol. 1 ^[21]

Art and architecture

Performances

• 3 January – First performance of Charles Hugo's stage adaptation of Les Misèrables , Théâtre Royal des Galeries, Brussels

Births

• 10 January – Félix Wielemans, soldier (died 1917)
• 3 February – Charles Magnette, politician (died 1937)
• 8 March – Théophile Bovy, journalist (died 1937)
• 3 April – Henry van de Velde, painter (died 1957)
• 21 April – Paul Lebrun, composer (died 1920)
• 25 June – Émile Francqui, philanthropist (died 1935)
• 26 June
  • Paul Pelseneer, biologist (died 1945)
  • Henri Quersin, marksman (died 1944)
• 13 August – Pol Demade, writer (died 1936)
• 21 August – Jules Destrée, politician (died 1936)
• 1 September – Herman Baltia, soldier (died 1938)
• 14 November – Leo Baekeland, chemist (died 1944)
• 10 December – Maurice Hennequin, playwright (died 1926)

Deaths

• 8 February – Martin Martens (born 1797), botanist and chemist
• 14 May – Emmanuel Noterman (born 1808), painter
• 18 July – Arnold Timothée de Lasaulx (born 1774), politician
• 19 July – André-Napoléon Fontainas (born 1807), politician
• 26 September – Jean Thienpont (born 1774), politician
• 31 October – Augustus Van Dievoet (born 1803), judge

References

1. "Traité d'amitié, de commerce et de navigation entre la Belgique et l'Italie, signé à Turin le 9 avril 1863". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 9 April 1863.
2. Olivier Keun (11 March 2013). "Afkoop Scheldetol 150 jaar". G/Geschiedenis (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
3. C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 73-75. On Google Books
4. C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), p. 93. On Google Books
5. Treaty between Austria, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Hanover, Italy, Oldenburg, Peru, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway, Turkey and the Hanse Towns (Bremen, Hamburg and Lubeck), and Belgium, for the Redemption of the Scheldt Tolls, signed at Brussels, 16 July 1863. Oxford Historical Treaties online Archived 9 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine
6. C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), p. 99. On Google Books
7. Olivier Keun (11 March 2013). "Afkoop Scheldetol 150 jaar". G/Geschiedenis (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
8. William Henry Overall, The dictionary of chronology, or historical and statistical register (London, 1870), p. 77.
9. "Convention, signée à Bruxelles, le 19 septembre 1863, additionnelle à la convention postale entre la Belgique et l'office du prince de la Tour et Taxis du 28 février 1852". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 19 September 1863.
10. Nicolas Coupain, "The Pioneering Years (1863-1914)", in Kenneth Bertrams et al., Solvay: History of a Multinational Family Firm (Cambridge University Press, 2013), p. 22.
11. Annuaire de l'Observatoire Royal on Google Books.
12. La Belgique horticole on Google Books.
13. Bulletin du Bibliophile on Google Books.
14. Bulletins de l'Académie royale on Google Books.
15. Collection de précis historiques on Google Books.
16. Dubbele wegwyzer.
17. "Revue belge et étrangère". 1863.
18. April issue on Google Books.
19. Essai sur l'économie rurale on Google Books.
20. Procès de François Anneessens on Google Books.
21. Les vrayes chroniques on Google Books.