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1869 in Belgium
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Events in the year
1869 in
Belgium
.
Incumbents
Monarch
:
Leopold II
Head of government
:
Walthère Frère-Orban
Events
Epidemic of
typhoid fever
in Brussels.
Brussels-South railway station
opens.
[
1
]
:
689
February
20 February – Belgian senate passes a law prohibiting any French company from purchasing Belgian railways.
[
2
]
:
860
April
12 April – Metalworkers' strike at
Cockerill
in
Seraing
violently repressed
[
1
]
:
688
(inspiring
Karl Marx
to write
The Belgian Massacres
).
25 April – Protocol signed to settle railway disputes between France and Belgium.
[
2
]
:
869
May
31 May –
Horse-drawn buses
introduced in Brussels.
[
1
]
:
689
September
8 September – Belgian railways introduce cheap workers' season tickets.
[
1
]
:
689
Publications
Periodicals
Almanach royal officiel
(Brussels, E. Guyot)
[
3
]
Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique
, vol. 6
[
4
]
Collection de précis historiques
, vol. 18, edited by
Edouard Terwecoren
S.J.
[
5
]
Studies and reports
Édouard van den Corput
,
Origine et cause de l'epidémie de fièvre typhoide qui a règné à Bruxelles en 1869
(Brussels).
Jean-Auguste Jourdain
,
Dictionnaire encyclopédique de géographie historique du royaume en Belgique
[
6
]
Literature
Maria Doolaeghe
Najaarsvruchten
Births
5 April –
Isabelle Errera
, art historian (died 1929)
3 June –
Prince Baudouin of Belgium
(died 1891)
Deaths
The death of Prince Leopold
22 January –
Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant
, heir to the Belgian throne (born 1859).
[
2
]
:
857
4 February –
Johan Michiel Dautzenberg
(born 1808), poet and educationalist.
26 August –
Henri Leys
(born 1815), painter.
[
2
]
:
883
11 October –
François-Joseph Navez
(born 1787), painter.
[
1
]
:
690
3 November –
Cornelis Broeckx
(born 1807), physician and bibliophile
References
1
2
3
4
5
Alain de Gueldre et al.,
Kroniek van België
(Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
1
2
3
4
Joseph Irving
,
The Annals of Our Time
(London and New York, 1871).
↑
"Almanach royal officiel de Belgique"
. 1869.
↑
"Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique"
. 1864.
↑
On Google Books
↑
vol. 1
,
vol. 2
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