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Events in the year 1868 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II

Head of government: Charles Rogier (to 3 January); Walthère Frère-Orban (from 3 January)

Events

January

• 3 January – Walthère Frère-Orban replaces Charles Rogier as Prime Minister
• 28 January – Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps enthroned as Archbishop of Mechelen.

March

• 1 March – Société Libre des Beaux-Arts founded.
• 24 March – 20 killed when soldiers shoot on striking miners from the Epine mine in Dampremy.

May

• 25 May – Provincial elections

June

• 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1868

August

• 6 August – 47 miners killed by a fire damp explosion in the Sainte Henriette mine near Jemappes.

September

• 7 September – Third international workers congress opens in Brussels.

October

• 23 October – Frederick Doulton, MP, brought to trial in Brussels on charges of fraud in public works, but acquitted of having broken any law.

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 17, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.
• Socialist daily newspaper De Werker launched in Antwerp (October).

Series

• Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 2

History

• Charles Niellon, Histoire des événements militaires et des conspirations orangistes de la révolution en Belgique de 1830 à 1833 (Brussels, M.J. Poot)

Literature

• Maria Doolaeghe, Winterbloemen

Art and architecture

• Société Libre des Beaux-Arts founded

Paintings

• Charles-Philogène Tschaggeny, The Covered Wagon

Sculptures

• Louis Jehotte's equestrian statue of Charlemagne inaugurated in Liège

Births

• 11 January – François Ruhlmann, conductor (died 1948)
• 5 February – Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer (died 1952)
• 23 February – Paul Bergmans, librarian (died 1935)
• 5 March – Prosper Poullet, politician (died 1937)
• 27 April – Herman Vander Linden, politician (died 1956)
• 18 June – Anna Kernkamp, artist (died 1947)
• 23 August – Paul Otlet, bibliographer (died 1944)
• 15 November – Marguerite Putsage, painter (died 1946)
• 28 November – Louis Franck, politician (died 1937)

Deaths

• 13 February – Dieudonné Stas (born 1791), newspaperman
• 17 April – Guillaume-Hippolyte van Volxem (born 1791), politician
• 30 April – Charles Le Hon (born 1792), politician
• 9 July – Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps (born 1783), military inventor
• 21 July – Édouard Ducpétiaux (born 1804), prison reformer

References

1. "Installation de Monseigneur Deschamps". Le Monde illustré. Vol. 22. 1868. p. 90.
2. ^ Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
3. ^ Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871).
4. "Almanach royal officiel de Belgique". 1868.
5. On Google Books
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