1871 in Belgium
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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.[1]
- February
- 21 February – Regular railway services between France and Belgium resumed.[2]
- March
- 21 March – Victor Hugo moves to Brussels.[3]
- 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.[4]
- November
- 30 November – Work on Covering of the Senne formally completed.
- December
- 7 December – Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt replaces Jules d'Anethan as Prime Minister.
Art and architecture
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- Buildings
- Aertrycke Castle, Torhout
- Paintings
- Hippolyte Boulenger, Storm over the Scheldt
- Joseph Maswiens, The Old Fish Market in Leuven
- Alfred Stevens, The Psyché (My Studio) (c. 1871)
Publications
- Serials
- Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 8.[5]
- Annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 27.[6]
- Annales du Cercle archéologique de Mons, vol. 10.[7]
- Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 25.[8]
- Archives médicales belges, second series, vol. 14.[9]
- Le Bibliophile belge, vol. 6.[10]
- Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, third series, vol. 5.[11]
- Bulletin de la Commission royale d'Histoire, third series, vol. 12.[12]
- Bulletins d'arboriculture, de floriculture et de culture potagère[13]
- Revue de Belgique, vol. 3.[14]
- Revue de la numismatique belge, fifth series, vol. 3.[15]
- Official publications
- Code des contributions directes, douanes et accises de la Belgique, en vigueur au 1er janvier 1871[16]
- Moniteur belge: journal officiel[17]
- Rapport triennal sur la situation de l'instruction primaire en Belgique[18]
- Rapport triennal sur l'état de l'enseignement moyen en Belgique[19]
- Other
- Léon d'Andrimont, Des institutions et des associations ouvrières de la Belgique[20]
- 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)[21]
- Jean-Baptist David, Manuel de l'histoire de Belgique[22]
- Edouard Dupont, Les temps antéhistoriques en Belgique (Brussels, Mucquardt)[23]
- J.S.G. Nypels, Pasinomie. Collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et régelements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique[24]
- Adolphe Quetelet, Histoire des sciences mathématiques et physiques chez les Belges[25]
- Eugène Somerhausen, Code politique de la Belgique[26]
- Edward Van Even, Mengelingen voor de geschiedenis van Braband[27]
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)
- 1 June – Charles Théodore Bernier, engraver (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
- ↑ Thomas Ward, "Salt and its export from the ports of the Mersey", Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, 30 (1876), p. 202.
- ↑ Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 985.
- ↑ "Sur les traces de Victor Hugo". National Archives of Belgium. 22 May 2015.
- ↑ "Sur les traces de Victor Hugo". National Archives of Belgium. 22 May 2015.
- ↑ Analectes on Google Books.
- ↑ Annales de l'Académie d'archéologie on Google Books.
- ↑ Annales du Cercle archéologique de Mons on Google Books.
- ↑ Annuaire de la noblesse on Google Books.
- ↑ Archives on Google Books.
- ↑ Bibliophile belge pn Google Books.
- ↑ Bulletin de l'Académie on Google Books.
- ↑ BCRH on Google Books.
- ↑ Bulletins d'arboriculture on Google Books.
- ↑ January and May on Google Books.
- ↑ Revue de la numismatique on Google Books.
- ↑ Code des contributions on Google Books
- ↑ July-August, September and December on Google Books.
- ↑ Rapport sur l'instruction primaire on Google Books
- ↑ Rapport sur l'enseignement moyen on Google Books
- ↑ Andrimont, Institutions on Google Books
- ↑ Borchgrave, Essai historique on Google Books
- ↑ David, Manuel on Google Books
- ↑ Dupont, Les temps antéhistoriques on Google Books
- ↑ Nypels, Pasinomie on Google Books
- ↑ Quetelet, Histoire on Google Books
- ↑ Somerhausen, Code on Google Books
- ↑ Van Even, Mengelingen on Google Books
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