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Events in the year 1871 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II

Head of government: Jules d'Anethan (to 7 December); Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (from 7 December)

Events

January

• 1 January – Belgium repeals import duty on salt.

February

• 21 February – Regular railway services between France and Belgium resumed.

March

• 21 March – Victor Hugo moves to Brussels.

June

• 1 June – Victor Hugo expelled from Belgium for endangering the public peace after publishing a letter in L'Indépendance Belge of 26 May criticising the Belgian government's attitude to Communard refugees.

December

• 7 December – Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt replaces Jules d'Anethan as Prime Minister.

Publications

Serials

• Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 8.
• Annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 27.
• Annales du Cercle archéologique de Mons, vol. 10.
• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 25.
• Archives médicales belges, second series, vol. 14.
• Le Bibliophile belge, vol. 6.
• Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, third series, vol. 5.
• Bulletin de la Commission royale d'Histoire, third series, vol. 12.
• Bulletins d'arboriculture, de floriculture et de culture potagère
• Revue de Belgique, vol. 3.
• Revue de la numismatique belge, fifth series, vol. 3.

Official publications

• Code des contributions directes, douanes et accises de la Belgique, en vigueur au 1er janvier 1871
• Moniteur belge: journal officiel
• Rapport triennal sur la situation de l'instruction primaire en Belgique
• Rapport triennal sur l'état de l'enseignement moyen en Belgique

Other

• Léon d'Andrimont, Des institutions et des associations ouvrières de la Belgique
• Émile de Borchgrave, Essai historique sur les colonies belges qui s'établirent en Hongrie et en Transylvanie pendant les XIe, XIIe et XIIIe siècles (Brussels)
• Jean-Baptist David, Manuel de l'histoire de Belgique
• Edouard Dupont, Les temps antéhistoriques en Belgique
• J.S.G. Nypels, Pasinomie. Collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et régelements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique
• Adolphe Quetelet, Histoire des sciences mathématiques et physiques chez les Belges
• Eugène Somerhausen, Code politique de la Belgique
• Edward Van Even, Mengelingen voor de geschiedenis van Braband

Births

• 10 January – Emiel van Heurck, folklorist (died 1931)
• 8 February – Médard Tytgat, illustrator (died 1948)
• 14 May – Louis de Brouchoven de Bergeyck, politician (died 1938)
• 26 May – Camille Huysmans, politician (died 1968)
• 29 May – Pieter Franciscus Dierckx, painter (died 1950)
• 8 June – Aloys Van de Vyvere, politician (died 1961)
• 12 June – Lu Zhengxiang (in Shanghai), abbot (died 1949)
• 9 July – Auguste-Léopold Huys, missionary (died 1938)
• 11 July – Armand Huyghé, soldier (died 1944)
• 23 July – Ovide Decroly, psychologist (died 1932)
• 30 September – Adolphe Stoclet, art collector (died 1949)
• 5 October – Karl Hanquet, historian (died 1928)
• 30 November – Emile de Cartier de Marchienne, diplomat (died 1946)
• 29 December – Emmanuel Foulon, Olympic archer (died 1945)

Deaths

• 8 January – Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans (born 1825), priest and botanist
• 18 January – Princess Joséphine Marie of Belgium (born 1870)
• 2 February – Jan Frans Loos (born 1799), politician
• 10 February – Étienne Constantin de Gerlache (born 1785), first Prime Minister of Belgium
• 26 March – François-Joseph Fétis (born 1784), musicologist
• 18 May – Constance Trotti (born 1800), hostess and patron of the arts
• October – Théodore Fourmois (born 1814), artist

References

1. Thomas Ward, "Salt and its export from the ports of the Mersey", Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, 30 (1876), p. 202.
2. Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 985.
3. "Sur les traces de Victor Hugo". National Archives of Belgium. 22 May 2015.
4. "Sur les traces de Victor Hugo". National Archives of Belgium. 22 May 2015.
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14. January and May on Google Books.
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16. Code des contributions on Google Books
17. July-August, September and December on Google Books.
18. Rapport sur l'instruction primaire on Google Books
19. Rapport sur l'enseignement moyen on Google Books
20. Andrimont, Institutions on Google Books
21. Borchgrave, Essai historique on Google Books
22. David, Manuel on Google Books
23. Nypels, Pasinomie on Google Books
24. Quetelet, Histoire on Google Books
25. Somerhausen, Code on Google Books
26. Van Even, Mengelingen on Google Books

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