1868 in Belgium
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Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold II
- Head of government: Charles Rogier (to 3 January); Walthère Frère-Orban (from 3 January)
Events
- January
- 3 January â Walthère Frère-Orban replaces Charles Rogier as Prime Minister
- 28 January â Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps enthroned as Archbishop of Mechelen.[1]
- March
- 1 March â Société Libre des Beaux-Arts founded.[2]:â686â
- 24 March â 20 killed when soldiers shoot on striking miners from the Epine mine in Dampremy.[2]:â686â
- May
- 25 May â Provincial elections
- June
- 9 June â Partial legislative elections of 1868
- August
- 6 August â 47 miners killed by a fire damp explosion in the Sainte Henriette mine near Jemappes.[3]:â836â
- September
- 7 September â Third international workers congress opens in Brussels.[2]:â687â
- October
- 23 October â Frederick Doulton, MP, brought to trial in Brussels on charges of fraud in public works, but acquitted of having broken any law.[3]:â843â
Publications
- Periodicals
- Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)[4]
- Collection de précis historiques, vol. 17, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[5]
- Socialist daily newspaper De Werker launched in Antwerp (October).[2]:â686â
- Series
- Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 2
- History
- Charles Niellon, Histoire des événements militaires et des conspirations orangistes de la révolution en Belgique de 1830 à 1833 (Brussels, M.J. Poot)[6]
- Literature
- Maria Doolaeghe, Winterbloemen
Art and architecture
- Société Libre des Beaux-Arts founded
- Paintings
- Charles-Philogène Tschaggeny, The Covered Wagon
- Sculptures
- Louis Jehotte's equestrian statue of Charlemagne inaugurated in Liège
Births
- 11 January â François Ruhlmann, conductor (died 1948)
- 5 February â Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer (died 1952)
- 23 February â Paul Bergmans, librarian (died 1935)
- 5 March â Prosper Poullet, politician (died 1937)
- 27 April â Herman Vander Linden, politician (died 1956)
- 18 June â Anna Kernkamp, artist (died 1947)
- 23 August â Paul Otlet, bibliographer (died 1944)
- 15 November â Marguerite Putsage, painter (died 1946)
- 28 November â Louis Franck, politician (died 1937)
Deaths
- 13 February â Dieudonné Stas (born 1791), newspaperman
- 17 April â Guillaume-Hippolyte van Volxem (born 1791), politician
- 30 April â Charles Le Hon (born 1792), politician
- 9 July â Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps (born 1783), military inventor
- 21 July â Ãdouard Ducpétiaux (born 1804), prison reformer