1860 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- 28 May â Provincial elections
- 9 July â Belgian consulate in Damascus destroyed during anti-Christian pogroms.[1]
- 18 July â Duties charged on goods brought from the countryside into towns abolished.[2]
- 7 October â One of the monks sets fire to the church and one of the dormitories at Scourmont Priory.[3]
- 16 November â Execution of Jan Coucke and Pieter Goethals.
Publications
- Periodicals
- Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 8.[4][5]
- Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 26.[6]
- Annuaire militaire officiel, 14.[7]
- La Belgique Horticole, 10.[8]
- La Belgique[9]
- Bulletin du bibliophile belge, 16[10]
- Collection de précis historiques, 9, edited by Edouard Terwecoren[11]
- Monographs and reports
- La Belgique en 1860 (Brussels, Philippe Hen).[12]
- Manifestation nationale du peuple belge en 1860 (Brussels, E. Guyot, and Haarlem, J. J. Weeveringh).[13]
- Recueil des pièces imprimées par ordre de la Chambre des Représentants, vol. 1.[14]
- Louis Hymans, Histoire populaire de la Belgique (Brussels and Leipzig, Auguste Schnée)[15]
- F. Prové, De la question monétaire en Belgique (Brussels, J.-B. Tarride).[16]
- Guidebooks
- A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland (London, John Murray).[17]
- Literature
- Joseph Octave Delepierre, A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature and its Celebrated Authors from the Twelfth Century to the Present Time (London, John Murray).[18]
- Jules de Saint-Genois, Profils et portraits
Births
- 12 January â Charles Lemonnier, politician (died 1930)
- 24 February â Max Waller, writer (died 1889)
- 11 March â Rodolphe Wytsman, painter (died 1927)
- 2 April â Paul Costermans, colonial administrator (died 1905)
- 13 April â James Ensor, painter (died 1949)
- 2 May â Heva Coomans, painter (died 1939)
- 23 June â Albert Giraud, poet (died 1929)
- 28 June â Aloïs Biebuyck, officer (died 1944)
- 12 August â Ernest Baert, explorer (died 1894)
- 26 August â Luis Siret, archaeologist (died 1934)
- 4 December â Charles de Broqueville, politician (died 1940)
- 15 December â Alphonse Michaux, engraver (died 1928)
- 30 December â Leon Mazy, muralist (died 1938)
Deaths
- 1 April â Joseph Guislain (born 1797), physician
- 20 April â Charles de Brouckère (born 1796), politician
- 27 April â John E. Blox (born 1810), Jesuit
- 11 September â Jean-Baptiste Masui (born 1798), civil engineer
- 27 September â Charles-Joseph, 4th Duke d'Ursel (born 1777), politician
- 10 October â Jules Victor Génisson (born 1805), painter
- 13 October â Egide Linnig (born 1821), artist
- 22 October â Pieter Vanderghinste (born 1789), composer
