1882 in Belgium

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Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1882 List of years in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1882 in the Kingdom of Belgium .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II ^[1]
• Prime Minister:Walthère Frère-Orban

Events

Mounted Iguanodon skeleton (1882)

• Louis Dollo reconstructs the iguanodons found in Bernissart.
• 7 January – Léon and Armand Peltzer murder Guillaume Bernays at 159 Rue de la Loi, Brussels (the Peltzer Case).
• 6 May – North Sea Fisheries Convention signed, to come into effect in 1884.
• 22 May – Provincial elections
• 13 June – Legislative elections
• 31 July – Désiré-Joseph Mercier appointed to the new chair in Thomist philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain. ^[2]
• 27 November – The Peltzer Case comes to trial before the Brussels Court of assizes.
• December – Jean-Charles Houzeau leads a scientific expedition to San Antonio, Texas, to observe a transit of Venus in order to determine the solar parallax. ^[3]

Publications

Periodicals

• Bulletins de l'Acadie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 3rd series, vol. 4 ^[4]

Conference proceedings

• Congrès international de l'enseignement, Bruxelles, 1880: Discussions (Brussels, Librairie de l'Office de Publicité) ^[5]

Art and architecture

Passage du Nord, Brussels (opened 1882)

Buildings

• Henri Rieck's Northern Gallery opens in Brussels
• 1 July – Last stone laid of Palais de Justice, Brussels (formally opened 1883)

Births

• 10 January – Eugène Joseph Delporte, astronomer (died 1955)
• 5 February – Georges Dandoy, missionary (died 1962)
• 1 April – Paul Anspach, fencer (died 1981)
• 16 June – Josef Christiaens, driver and aviator (died 1919)
• 10 July – Henri Anspach, fencer (died 1979)
• 15 July – Albert Hustin, doctor (died 1967)
• 2 September – Nico Gunzburg, criminologist (died 1984)
• 19 October – Norbert Wallez, newspaper editor (died 1952)

Deaths

• 7 February – Édouard De Bièfve (born 1808), painter
• 9 July – Louis-Charles Verwee (born 1832), painter
• 25 September – Désiré van Monckhoven (born 1834), photographer
• 17 November – Henri Julien Allard (born 1803), politician

References

1. "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. Robert Wielockx, "De Mercier à De Wulf: Débuts de l'École de Louvain", in Gli studi di filosofia medievale fra otto e novecento, edited by Ruedi Imbach and Alfonso Maierù (Rome, 1991), p. 77. Preview on Google Books
3. Christiaan Sterken, Jean-Charles Houzeau and the 1882 Belgian Transit of Venus Expeditions, Journal of Astronomical Data 19:1 (2013), 169-180.
4. On Internet Archive
5. On Internet Archive