1868 in Belgium

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Jean-Baptiste Van Moer, Brussels in 1868 (1872)

Events in the year 1868 in Belgium .

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II

Head of government: Charles Rogier (to 3 January); Walthère Frère-Orban (from 3 January)

Events

January

• 3 January – Walthère Frère-Orban replaces Charles Rogier as Prime Minister
• 28 January – Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps enthroned as Archbishop of Mechelen. ^[1]

March

• 1 March – Société Libre des Beaux-Arts founded. ^{[2] : 686}
• 24 March – 20 killed when soldiers shoot on striking miners from the Epine mine in Dampremy. ^{[2] : 686}

May

• 25 May – Provincial elections

June

• 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1868

August

• 6 August – 47 miners killed by a fire damp explosion in the Sainte Henriette mine near Jemappes. ^{[3] : 836}

September

• 7 September – Third international workers congress opens in Brussels. ^{[2] : 687}

October

• 23 October – Frederick Doulton, MP, brought to trial in Brussels on charges of fraud in public works, but acquitted of having broken any law. ^{[3] : 843}

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot) ^[4]
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 17, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J. ^[5]
• Socialist daily newspaper De Werker launched in Antwerp (October). ^{[2] : 686}

Series

• Biographie Nationale de Belgique , vol. 2

History

• Charles Niellon, Histoire des événements militaires et des conspirations orangistes de la révolution en Belgique de 1830 à 1833 (Brussels, M.J. Poot) ^[6]

Literature

• Maria Doolaeghe, Winterbloemen

Art and architecture

Inauguration of Louis Jehotte's equestrian statue of Charlemagne in Liège

• Société Libre des Beaux-Arts founded

Paintings

• Charles-Philogène Tschaggeny, The Covered Wagon

Sculptures

• Louis Jehotte's equestrian statue of Charlemagne inaugurated in Liège

Births

• 11 January – François Ruhlmann, conductor (died 1948)
• 5 February – Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer (died 1952)
• 23 February – Paul Bergmans, librarian (died 1935)
• 5 March – Prosper Poullet, politician (died 1937)
• 27 April – Herman Vander Linden, politician (died 1956)
• 18 June — Anna Kernkamp, artist (died 1947)
• 23 August – Paul Otlet, bibliographer (died 1944)
• 15 November – Marguerite Putsage, painter (died 1946)
• 28 November – Louis Franck, politician (died 1937)

Deaths

• 13 February – Dieudonné Stas (born 1791), newspaperman
• 17 April – Guillaume-Hippolyte van Volxem (born 1791), politician
• 30 April – Charles Le Hon (born 1792), politician
• 9 July – Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps (born 1783), military inventor
• 21 July – Édouard Ducpétiaux (born 1804), prison reformer

References

1. "Installation de Monseigneur Deschamps". Le Monde illustré. Vol. 22. 1868. p. 90.
2. Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
3. Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871).
4. "Almanach royal officiel de Belgique". 1868.
5. On Google Books
6. On Google Books