1876 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- 20 April â Leopold I's mortal remains transferred to the crypt of the Church of Our Lady of Laeken
- 22 May â Provincial elections
- 13 June â Partial legislative election
- 12 September â Brussels Geographic Conference opens, leading to the foundation of the International African Association
- 27 September â Opening of the International Congress of Hygiene and Life-Saving Equipment in Brussels, as part of the International Exhibition of Hygiene.[1]
Publications
- Periodicals
- Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 45 (Brussels, F. Hayez).[2]
- Revue de Belgique, 23.[3]
- Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère, 2.[4]
- Other
- Léon d'Andrimont, La coopération ouvrière en Belgique.[5]
Art and architecture
- Buildings
- Oostakker Basilica completed
Births
- 1 March
- Henri de Baillet-Latour, IOC president (died 1942)
- Maurice Emile Marie Goetghebuer, entomologist (died 1962)
- 7 April â Jules Degeetere, cyclist (died 1957)
- 26 June â Armand Renier, geologist (died 1951)
- 16 July â Victor van Strydonck de Burkel, general (died 1961)
- 2 August â Julien Lootens, cyclist (died 1942)
- 19 August â Oscar de Somville, Olympic rower (died 1938)
- 8 September â Thomas Braun, poet (died 1961)
- 12 September â Flor Alpaerts, composer (died 1954)
- 26 September â Georges Lebacq, painter (died 1950)
- 18 October â Charles van den Bussche, Olympic sailor (died 1958)
- 17 November â Joseph Van De Meulebroeck, politician (died 1958)
- 16 December â Rodolphe Seeldrayers, FIFA president (died 1955)
Deaths
- 7 January â Marie Thérèse Haze (born 1782), religious foundress
- 16 April â Auguste de Peellaert (born 1793), soldier and artist
- 17 April â Adolphe Pierre Sunaert (born 1825), artist and teacher
- 9 May â Louis van Houtte (born 1810), horticulturalist
- 23 May â Victor de Buck (born 1817), Jesuit
- 23 August â Giovanni Inchindi (born 1798), opera singer
- 29 October â Jacques Gregoir (born 1817), composer
