1882 in Belgium
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The following lists events that happened during 1882 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- Louis Dollo reconstructs the iguanodons found in Bernissart.
- 7 January â Léon and Armand Peltzer murder Guillaume Bernays at 159 Rue de la Loi, Brussels (the Peltzer Case).
- 6 May â North Sea Fisheries Convention signed, to come into effect in 1884.
- 22 May â Provincial elections
- 13 June â Legislative elections
- 31 July â Désiré-Joseph Mercier appointed to the new chair in Thomist philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain.[2]
- 27 November â The Peltzer Case comes to trial before the Brussels Court of assizes.
- December â Jean-Charles Houzeau leads a scientific expedition to San Antonio, Texas, to observe a transit of Venus in order to determine the solar parallax.[3]
Publications
Art and architecture
- Buildings
- Henri Rieck's Northern Gallery opens in Brussels
- 1 July â Last stone laid of Palais de Justice, Brussels (formally opened 1883)
Births
- 10 January â Eugène Joseph Delporte, astronomer (died 1955)
- 5 February â Georges Dandoy, missionary (died 1962)
- 1 April â Paul Anspach, fencer (died 1981)
- 16 June â Josef Christiaens, driver and aviator (died 1919)
- 10 July â Henri Anspach, fencer (died 1979)
- 15 July â Albert Hustin, doctor (died 1967)
- 2 September â Nico Gunzburg, criminologist (died 1984)
- 19 October â Norbert Wallez, newspaper editor (died 1952)
Deaths
- 7 February â Ãdouard De Bièfve (born 1808), painter
- 9 July â Louis-Charles Verwee (born 1832), painter
- 25 September â Désiré van Monckhoven (born 1834), photographer
- 17 November â Henri Julien Allard (born 1803), politician
