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Events in the year 1867 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

February

• 2 February – Mines across the Charleroi coalfield closed by strikes.
• 23 February – Commercial treaty with the Austrian Empire, mutually granting most favoured nation status.

April

• 25 April – Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, marries Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

May

• 11 May – Treaty of London establishes independence of Luxembourg; Prussian forces evacuated from Grand-Duchy.
• 17 May – New criminal code published.
• 19 May – Paper ballots introduced in elections.

July

• Delhaize Brothers begin trading.
• 11-18 July – 2,400 Belgian Volunteers visit London, received by the Lord Mayor, entertained by the Wimbledon Volunteers, and a ball held in their honour at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, attended by Prince Albert.

August

• 2 August – Peter Benoit becomes head of the Antwerp conservatory.

September

• 2-7 September – Third Catholic Congress in Mechelen.

December

• 8 December – Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps named Archbishop of Mechelen in succession to the recently deceased Engelbert Sterckx (enthroned 28 January 1868).

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)
• Collection de précis historiques, 16, edited by Edouard Terwecoren

Books

• Charles De Coster, La Légende d'Uylenspiegel (Brussels)

Births

• 19 January – Jean Delville, painter (died 1953)
• 28 February – William Degouve de Nuncques, painter (died 1935)
• 2 April – Louise Danse, painter (died 1948)
• 6 April – Maurice De Wulf, philosopher (died 1947)
• 15 May – Jef Leempoels, painter (died 1935)
• 27 May – Anna De Weert, painter (died 1950)
• 4 August – Valerius de Saedeleer, painter (died 1941)
• 7 August – Léo d'Ursel, diplomat (died 1934)
• 10 August – Bruno Destrée, monk-poet (died 1919)
• 21 June – Meyrianne Héglon, opera singer (died 1942)
• 8 November
  • Léopold Charlier, violinist (died 1936)
  • Léon Houa, cyclist (died 1918)
• 27 December – Léon Delacroix, prime minister (died 1929)

Deaths

• 10 January – Alfred Mosselman (born 1810), industrialist
• 2 March – Frans-Andries Durlet (born 1816), architect
• 4 June – Jan Teichmann (born 1788), engineer
• 10 September – Jules de Saint-Genois (born 1813), politician
• 12 November – Charles Frédéric Dubois (born 1804), naturalist
• 4 December – Engelbert Sterckx (born 1792), archbishop

References

1. ^ Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
2. C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 99-100. On Google Books
3. Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), pp. 781,783.
4. "Installation de Monseigneur Deschamps". Le Monde illustré. Vol. 22. p. 90.
5. Almanach royal officiel at Google Books
6. Collection de précis historiques at Google Books

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