1869 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1869 List of years in Belgium

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. Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
2. Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871).
3. "Almanach royal officiel de Belgique". 1869.
4. "Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique". 1864.
5. On Google Books
6. vol. 1, vol. 2