1875 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- Delhaize brothers go into retail business.
- 4 February â Princess Louise of Belgium marries Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Publications
- Periodicals
- Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)[1]
- Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez).[2]
- Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère begins publication[3]
- Official publications
- Reference works
- Eugène Van Bemmel, Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale, vol. 3 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe & Cie., 1875)[5]
- Books
- Hyacinthe De Bruyn, L'art belge au Salon de Bruxelles, 1875.[6]
Art and architecture
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- Paintings
Births
- 12 January â Charles de Hemricourt de Grunne (died 1937)
- 22 January â Blanche Rousseau, writer (died 1949)
- 8 March â Maurice Hemelsoet, Olympic rower (died 1943)
- 8 April â Albert I of Belgium (died 1934)
- 29 June â Adrienne Barbanson, aristocrat (died 1944)
- 31 July â Lucie Dejardin, politician (died 1945)
- 21 August â Maurice Lippens, politician (died 1956)
- 22 September â Ferdinand Perier, missionary (died 1968)
- 1 October â Eugeen Van Mieghem, painter (died 1930)
- 11 October â Ãmile Fairon, archivist (died 1945)
- 12 October â Ãmile Merlin, astronomer (died 1938)
- 26 November â Princess Marie of Croÿ (died 1968)
- 8 December â Jenny Montigny, painter (died 1937)
- 31 December â Jeanne de Vietinghoff, writer (died 1926)
Deaths
- 15 January â Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy (born 1783), geologist
- 24 January â Jean-Joseph Raikem (born 1787), politician
- 2 February â Luigi Agnesi (born 1833), singer and composer
- 30 March â Marie Pleyel (born 1811), pianist
- 4 May â Rosalie Loveling (born 1834), author
- 10 May â Michel Van Cuyck (born 1797), artist
- 22 August â Charles Venneman (born 1802), painter
- 11 November â Ernest Louis de Gonzague Vandenpeereboom (born 1807), industrialist and politician
- 12 November â Paul Lauters (born 1806), artist
