1869 in Belgium

← 1868 1867 1866 1869 in Belgium → 1870 1871 1872
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
See also:	Other events of 1869 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1869 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II

Head of government: Walthère Frère-Orban

Events

• Epidemic of typhoid fever in Brussels.
• Brussels-South railway station opens.^[1]: 689

February

• 20 February – Belgian senate passes a law prohibiting any French company from purchasing Belgian railways.^[2]: 860

April

• 12 April – Metalworkers' strike at Cockerill in Seraing violently repressed^[1]: 688 (inspiring Karl Marx to write The Belgian Massacres).
• 25 April – Protocol signed to settle railway disputes between France and Belgium.^[2]: 869

May

• 31 May – Horse-drawn buses introduced in Brussels.^[1]: 689

September

• 8 September – Belgian railways introduce cheap workers' season tickets.^[1]: 689

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)^[3]
• Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 6^[4]
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 18, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.^[5]

Studies and reports

• Édouard van den Corput, Origine et cause de l'epidémie de fièvre typhoide qui a règné à Bruxelles en 1869 (Brussels).
• Jean-Auguste Jourdain, Dictionnaire encyclopédique de géographie historique du royaume en Belgique^[6]

Literature

• Maria Doolaeghe Najaarsvruchten

Births

• 5 April – Isabelle Errera, art historian (died 1929)
• 3 June – Prince Baudouin of Belgium (died 1891)

Deaths

• 22 January – Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne (born 1859).^[2]: 857
• 4 February – Johan Michiel Dautzenberg (born 1808), poet and educationalist.
• 26 August – Henri Leys (born 1815), painter.^[2]: 883
• 11 October – François-Joseph Navez (born 1787), painter.^[1]: 690
• 3 November – Cornelis Broeckx (born 1807), physician and bibliophile

References