1863 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- 9 April â Treaty of amity, commerce and navigation with the Kingdom of Italy signed in Turin.[1]
- 12 May â Commercial treaty with the Netherlands, including Dutch agreement to perpetual abolition of tolls on the Scheldt river in return for a payment of 17 million guilders[2][3]
- 20 May â Commercial treaty with the United States, bringing relations into line with the free trade agreements already signed with France (1861), the United Kingdom (1862) and the Netherlands (1863).[4]
- 9 June â Partial legislative elections of 1863
- 16 July â Multilateral treaty for the redemption of the Scheldt tolls signed in Brussels[5]
- 27 July â Commercial treaty with the Austrian Empire, bringing relations into line with the free trade agreements already signed with France (1861), the United Kingdom (1862) and the Netherlands (1863).[6]
- 1 August â Clipper Marnix van Sinte-Aldegonde the first ship to sail toll-free from Antwerp to the mouth of the Scheldt.[7]
- 11 August â State visit of Queen Victoria to Belgium.[8]
- 18-22 August â First Catholic Congress in Mechelen.
- Guild of Saint Thomas and Saint Luke for the study and promotion of Christian art founded
- 19 September â Convention modifying the 1852 postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Brussels.[9]
- 26 December â Solvay chemical company founded.[10]
Publications
- Periodicals
- Annuaire de l'Observatoire Royal de Bruxelles, vol. 31[11]
- La Belgique horticole, edited by Ãdouard Morren[12]
- Bulletin du Bibliophile Belge, vol. 19, edited by A. Scheler (Brussels, F. Heussner)[13]
- Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, second series, vol. 15[14]
- Collection de précis historiques, vol. 12, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[15]
- Dubbele wegwyzer der stad Gent en der provincie Oost-Vlaenderen, vol. 1 (Ghent, Vanderhaeghen)[16]
- Revue belge et étrangère, 15[17]
- Revue Trimestrielle, vol. 38[18]
- Le Timbre-Poste begins publication
- Studies and reports
- Prosper de Haulleville, Les Catholiques et les libertés constitutionnelles en Belgique
- Ãmile de Laveleye, Essai sur l'économie rurale de la Belgique[19]
- Historical editions
- Louis Galesloot, Procès de François Anneessens: doyen du corps des métiers de Bruxelles, vol. 2 (Brussels and The Hague)[20]
- Jehan le Bel, Les vrayes chroniques, edited by Lambert Polain, vol. 1[21]
Art and architecture
- Performances
- 3 January â First performance of Charles Hugo's stage adaptation of Les Misèrables, Théâtre Royal des Galeries, Brussels
Births
- 10 January â Félix Wielemans, soldier (died 1917)
- 3 February â Charles Magnette, politician (died 1937)
- 8 March â Théophile Bovy, journalist (died 1937)
- 3 April â Henry van de Velde, painter (died 1957)
- 21 April â Paul Lebrun, composer (died 1920)
- 25 June â Ãmile Francqui, philanthropist (died 1935)
- 26 June
- Paul Pelseneer, biologist (died 1945)
- Henri Quersin, marksman (died 1944)
- 13 August â Pol Demade, writer (died 1936)
- 21 August â Jules Destrée, politician (died 1936)
- 1 September â Herman Baltia, soldier (died 1938)
- 14 November â Leo Baekeland, chemist (died 1944)
- 10 December â Maurice Hennequin, playwright (died 1926)
Deaths
- 8 February â Martin Martens (born 1797), botanist and chemist
- 14 May â Emmanuel Noterman (born 1808), painter
- 18 July â Arnold Timothée de Lasaulx (born 1774), politician
- 19 July â André-Napoléon Fontainas (born 1807), politician
- 26 September â Jean Thienpont (born 1774), politician
- 31 October â Augustus Van Dievoet (born 1803), judge