1869 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- Epidemic of typhoid fever in Brussels.
- Brussels-South railway station opens.[1]:â689â
- February
- 20 February â Belgian senate passes a law prohibiting any French company from purchasing Belgian railways.[2]:â860â
- April
- 12 April â Metalworkers' strike at Cockerill in Seraing violently repressed[1]:â688â (inspiring Karl Marx to write The Belgian Massacres).
- 25 April â Protocol signed to settle railway disputes between France and Belgium.[2]:â869â
- May
- 31 May â Horse-drawn buses introduced in Brussels.[1]:â689â
- September
- 8 September â Belgian railways introduce cheap workers' season tickets.[1]:â689â
Publications
- Periodicals
- Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)[3]
- Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 6[4]
- Collection de précis historiques, vol. 18, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[5]
- Studies and reports
- Ãdouard van den Corput, Origine et cause de l'epidémie de fièvre typhoide qui a règné à Bruxelles en 1869 (Brussels).
- Jean-Auguste Jourdain, Dictionnaire encyclopédique de géographie historique du royaume en Belgique[6]
- Literature
- Maria Doolaeghe Najaarsvruchten
Births
- 5 April â Isabelle Errera, art historian (died 1929)
- 3 June â Prince Baudouin of Belgium (died 1891)
Deaths
- 22 January â Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne (born 1859).[2]:â857â
- 4 February â Johan Michiel Dautzenberg (born 1808), poet and educationalist.
- 26 August â Henri Leys (born 1815), painter.[2]:â883â
- 11 October â François-Joseph Navez (born 1787), painter.[1]:â690â
- 3 November â Cornelis Broeckx (born 1807), physician and bibliophile