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Events in the year 1864 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

• Belgian State Railways Type 1 taken into use

February

• 4 February – Belgian Red Cross founded

April

• Charles Baudelaire moves to Brussels.

May

• 21 May – Father Damien ordained in Honolulu
• 23 May – Provincial elections
• 29 May – Princess Charlotte lands in Mexico to become Empress as consort of Maximilian I of Mexico

July

• 11 July – Federation of Catholic Circles and Conservative Associations formed (later to become the more formalised Catholic Party)

August

• 11 August – 1864 Belgian general election, won by Liberal Party
• 29 August – Catholic Congress in Mechelen opens (to 3 September)

September

• Exhibition of medieval, Renaissance and contemporary religious art in Mechelen.

October

• 16 October – Belgian Legion embark for Mexico to take part in the Second French intervention in Mexico

Sports

• Royal Athletics Association Ghent founded

Publications

Periodicals

• Annales du bibliophile belge begins publication.
• Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique begins publication, edited by Mgr. De Ram.
• Antwerpsch Archievenblad begins publication.
• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, Volume 17 (Brussels, M. Hayez).
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 13, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.

Pamphlets

• Réflexions sur les conséquences probables de l'expédition mexicaine (Brussels).

Literary works

• Auguste Louwage, Les trois soeurs Flamandes. Gand, Bruges, Anvers: trilogie nationale (Ghent, F. & E. Gyselynck).

Scholarly editions

• Pierre Joseph Le Boucq, Histoire des troubles advenues à Valenciennes à cause des hérésies, 1562-1579, edited by A.-P.-L. de Robaulx de Soumoy (Brussels, Ghent and Leipzig).

Births

• 11 January – Henri Daco, painter (died 1932)
• 26 March – Louis Reckelbus, painter (died 1958)
• 21 May – Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (died 1945)
• 22 May – Josue Dupon, sculptor (died 1935)
• 10 October – Blanche Arral, soprano (died 1945)
• 22 October – Eugène Laermans, painter (died 1940)
• 2 November – Oscar Roels, composer (died 1938)
• 28 November – Léon van Hout, musician (died 1945)

Deaths

• 19 February – Ferdinand Lecouvet (born 1827), bibliographer.
• 23 March – Jean-Baptiste Malou (born 1806), bishop
• 5 April – Louis Roelandt (born 1786), architect
• 27 May – Léandre Desmaisières (born 1794), politician
• 1 September – Jean Kickx (born 1803), botanist
• 2 October – Louis-Joseph Delebecque (born 1798), bishop of Ghent

References

1. "Pourquoi Baudelaire détestait-il les Belges?". La Libre. 7 Sep 2017.
2. Assemblée générale des catholiques en Belgique (Brussels, Victor Devaux, 1865) On Google Books
3. William Henry James Weale (ed.), Catalogue des objets d'art religieux du Moyen-Age, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes exposés à l'Hôtel Liedekerke à Malines, septembre 1864 (2nd ed., Brussels, Charles Lelong, 1864). On Internet Archive.
4. Vol. 1 on Google Books.
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10. Ferdinand Loise, "Lecouvet (Ferdinand-François-Joseph)", in Biographie Nationale de Belgique, Volume 11 (Brussels, 1891), 596-599
11. F.V.H., Notice biographique sur Monsieur F.-F.-J. Lecouvet (Ghent, L. Hebbelynck, 1864) On Google Books.

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