1882 in Belgium

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Last updated June 22, 2021

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

Incumbents

Events

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) 2043-03920-Noorddoorgang.jpg — Passage du Nord, Brussels (opened 1882)

Buildings

Henri Rieck's Passage du Nord 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

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Louis Niesten (1844–1920) was a Belgian astronomer working at the Brussels Royal Observatory. In 1877 he observed Mars and created a detailed map of its surface features.

Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie was a Belgian astronomer and journalist. A French speaker, he moved to New Orleans after getting in trouble for his politics in Belgium.

Henri Anspach was a Belgian épée and foil fencer. He was an Olympic champion in team épée.

The 1882 transit of Venus, which took place on 6 December 1882, was the second and last transit of Venus of the 19th century, the first having taken place eight years earlier in 1874. Many an expedition was sent by European powers to describe both episodes, eight of them alone were approved and financed in 1882 by the United States Congress.

Charles Émile Stuyvaert was a Belgian astronomer. He was a contemporary of Albert Lancaster, Louis Niesten and Jean-Charles Houzeau.

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Events in the year 1841 in Belgium.

Events in the year 1864 in Belgium.

The following lists events that happened during 1904 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Events in the year 1899 in Belgium.

The following lists events that happened during 1907 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Events in the year 1875 in Belgium.

The Van Dievoetfamily is a Belgian family originating from the Duchy of Brabant. It descends from the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels and its members have been bourgeois (burgess) of that city since the 1600s. It formed, at the end of the 17th century, a now extinct noble Parisian branch called Vandive.

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References

↑ "Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
↑ 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
↑ Christiaan Sterken, Jean-Charles Houzeau and the 1882 Belgian Transit of Venus Expeditions, Journal of Astronomical Data 19:1 (2013), 169-180.
↑ On Internet Archive
↑ On Internet Archive

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[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

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