1864 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- Belgian State Railways Type 1 taken into use
- February
- 4 February â Belgian Red Cross founded
- April
- Charles Baudelaire moves to Brussels.[1]
- May
- 21 May â Father Damien ordained in Honolulu
- 23 May â Provincial elections
- 29 May â Princess Charlotte lands in Mexico to become Empress as consort of Maximilian I of Mexico
- July
- 11 July â Federation of Catholic Circles and Conservative Associations formed (later to become the more formalised Catholic Party)
- August
- 11 August â 1864 Belgian general election, won by Liberal Party
- 29 August â Catholic Congress in Mechelen opens (to 3 September)[2]
- September
- Exhibition of medieval, Renaissance and contemporary religious art in Mechelen.[3]
- October
- 16 October â Belgian Legion embark for Mexico to take part in the Second French intervention in Mexico
Sports
Publications
- Periodicals
- Annales du bibliophile belge begins publication.
- Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique begins publication, edited by Mgr. De Ram.[4]
- Antwerpsch Archievenblad begins publication.
- Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, Volume 17 (Brussels, M. Hayez).[5]
- Collection de précis historiques, vol. 13, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[6]
- Pamphlets
- Réflexions sur les conséquences probables de l'expédition mexicaine (Brussels).[7]
- Literary works
- Auguste Louwage, Les trois soeurs Flamandes. Gand, Bruges, Anvers: trilogie nationale (Ghent, F. & E. Gyselynck).[8]
- Scholarly editions
- Pierre Joseph Le Boucq, Histoire des troubles advenues à Valenciennes à cause des hérésies, 1562-1579, edited by A.-P.-L. de Robaulx de Soumoy (Brussels, Ghent and Leipzig).[9]
Births
- 11 January â Henri Daco, painter (died 1932)
- 26 March â Louis Reckelbus, painter (died 1958)
- 21 May â Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (died 1945)
- 22 May â Josue Dupon, sculptor (died 1935)
- 10 October â Blanche Arral, soprano (died 1945)
- 22 October â Eugène Laermans, painter (died 1940)
- 2 November â Oscar Roels, composer (died 1938)
- 28 November â Léon van Hout, musician (died 1945)
Deaths
- 19 February â Ferdinand Lecouvet (born 1827), bibliographer.[10][11]
- 23 March â Jean-Baptiste Malou (born 1806), bishop
- 5 April â Louis Roelandt (born 1786), architect
- 27 May â Léandre Desmaisières (born 1794), politician
- 1 September â Jean Kickx (born 1803), botanist
- 2 October â Louis-Joseph Delebecque (born 1798), bishop of Ghent