1874 in Belgium
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Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold II
- Head of government: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 21 August); Jules Malou (from 21 August)
Events
- 20 January â Royal decree providing for subsidies to the dramatic arts.
- 19 March â Extradition treaty with the United States of America.
- 25 May â Provincial elections
- 1 June â Service starts on BrusselsâCharleroi railway line. Nivelles railway station inaugurated.
- 9 June â Partial legislative elections of 1874
- 21 August â Prime Minister Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt dies in office; succeeded by Jules Malou
- 2 September â Convention with The Netherlands for improvements to the GhentâTerneuzen Canal signed in Brussels.[1]
- 10 September â Postal convention with Peru signed in Brussels.[2]
- 24 December â Extradition treaty with the German Empire, replacing earlier treaties with individual German states.[3]
Publications
- Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique. 1874. (Brussels).[4]
- Ãmile de Laveleye, De la Proprieté et de ses Formes Primitives[5]
- Eugène Van Bemmel, Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe & Cie., 1874)[6]
Art and architecture
Births
- 13 January â Jozef-Ernest van Roey, archbishop (died 1961)
- 26 February â Gaston-Antoine Rasneur, bishop (died 1939)
- 19 April â Firmin Baes, painter (died 1943)
Deaths
- 17 February â Adolphe Quetelet (born 1796), mathematician
- 23 May â Sylvain Van de Weyer (born 1802), politician
- 4 July â Hippolyte Boulenger (born 1837), painter
- 21 August â Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (born 1794)
- 6 December â Gustaf Wappers (born 1803), painter
