1869 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1869 in Belgium.
Incumbents
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
- Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. [3]
- Studies and reports
- Édouard van den Corput, Origine et cause de l'epidémie de fièvre typhoide qui a règné à Bruxelles en 1869 (Brussels).
- Literature
- Maria Doolaeghe Najaarsvruchten
Births
- 5 April – Isabelle Errera, art historian (died 1929)
- 3 June – Prince Baudouin of Belgium (died 1891)
Deaths
- 22 January – Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne (born 1859).[2]:857
- 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