1861 in Belgium

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Decades:
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See also:Other events of 1861
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1861 in Belgium.

Incumbents[]

Monarchy of Belgium: Leopold I
Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events[]

January
  • 1 January – Franco-Belgian Tirailleurs renamed Papal Zouaves.[1]
February
May
  • 1 May – Commercial treaty with France modelled on the Anglo-French commercial treaty of 1860.[3]
  • 19 May – Association "Vlamingen Vooruit!" organises mass meeting in Brussels[4]
  • 27 May – Commercial treaty with France ratified.
June
  • 1 June – Commercial treaty with France comes into effect.
  • 11 June – Partial legislative elections of 1861
July
  • 20 July – Signing of Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation between Belgium and Mexico negotiated by Auguste t'Kint.[5]
October
  • 1 October – Commercial treaty between Britain, France and Belgium comes into effect.[6]
  • 10 October – Commercial treaty with the Ottoman Empire signed at Constantinople by Gaston Errembault de Dudzeele for Belgium and by and for the Sublime Porte.[7]

Publications[]

Periodicals
  • Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 27 [8]
  • La Belgique Horticole, vol. 11.[9]
  • Bulletin de la Fédération des Sociétés d'Horticulture[10]
  • Bulletin Usuel des Lois et Arrêtés, 1539–1813 (Brussels)[11]
  • Collection de précis historiques, vol. 10, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[12]
  • La Tribune du peuple (Brussels) begins publication
  • Revue belge et étrangère, 12[13]
  • Het Vlaemsch Verbond begins publication[4]
Reports and pamphlets
  • Bulletin administratif du Ministère de l'Intérieur, series 1 (1830–1847), vol. 1 (1830-1831).[14]
  • Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de Belgique, vol. 48 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge)[15][16]
  • Charles Le Hardy de Beaulieu, L'Espagne et son avenir commercial: Des relations à créer entre la Belgique et l'Espagne (Brussels: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie.)
Literary and historical writing
  • , Histoire des Belges à la fin du XVIIIe siècle[17]
  • Charles De Coster, Contes brabançons
  • Gustave Oppelt, Histoire générale et chronologique de la Belgique, de 1830 à 1860 (Brussels, M. Hayez)[18]
  • Auguste Scheler, Trente années de la littérature belge (Brussels: Aug. Schnée)[19]
  • William Henry James Weale, Notes sur Jean van Eyck (Brussels: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie; London: Barthes & Lowell)
Music
  • Barthélemy-Antoine Bauwens, Le plain-chant mis à la portée de tout le monde (Paris and Brussels: Casterman)
  • Henri Vieuxtemps, Violin Concerto No. 5

Births[]

  • Elisabeth Wesmael, graphic artist (died 1953)
  • 6 January – Victor Horta, architect (died 1947)
  • 11 March – Francis Dhanis, colonial administrator (died 1909)
  • 2 April – Ernest van Dyck, singer (died 1923)
  • 20 April – Arthur Van Gehuchten, anatomist (died 1914)
  • 5 July – Fernand Cocq, politician (died 1940)
  • 12 July – Eugène Broerman, painter (died 1932)
  • 13 August – Fernand Brouez, magazine publisher (died 1900)
  • 16 August – Diana Coomans, painter (died 1952)
  • 27 August – Aloïs de Beule, sculptor (died 1935)
  • 1 September – Louis Bernheim, general (died 1931)
  • 3 September – Ursmer Berlière, historian (died 1932)
  • 9 October – Henri Privat-Livemont, artist (died 1936)
  • 21 October – Charles van Lerberghe, poet (died 1907)
  • 3 November – Louis Ruquoy, soldier (died 1937)
  • 6 November – Germain Morin, patrologist (died 1946)
  • 10 December – Guillaume Van Strydonck, painter (died 1937)

Deaths[]

  • 5 April – Ferdinand de Meeûs (born 1798), politician
  • 8 April – (born 1819), poet and dramatist
  • 27 October – Marcellin Jobard (born 1792), photographer
  • 3 December – Henry Voordecker (born 1779), painter
  • 25 December – Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout (born 1793), painter

References[]

  1. ^ Joseph Powell, Two Years in the Pontifical Zouaves (London: R. Washburne, 1871), p. 2.
  2. ^ "Incendie du couvent des Trappistes – Le frère Robyn accusé", La Belgique judiciaire, vol. 19, no. 15 (21 February 1861), 233-235.[1]
  3. ^ C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 27-35. On Google Books
  4. ^ a b , "Het Vlaemsch Verbond als politiek experiment (Gent, 1861–1862)", BMGN, 96/3 (1981), pp. 491-508.
  5. ^ Charles Terlinden, "T'Kint, Auguste-Pierre-Joseph", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 25 Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Brussels, 1932), 368–371.
  6. ^ Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 612.
  7. ^ Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de Belgique, vol. 49 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge, 1862), pp. 27-35. On Google Books.
  8. ^ "Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique". 1861.
  9. ^ Belgique Horticole on Google Books.
  10. ^ Bulletin d'Horticulture on Google Books.
  11. ^ Bulletin Usuel on Google Books.
  12. ^ Collection de précis historiques on Google Books.
  13. ^ Revue belge, vol. 12 on Google Books.
  14. ^ Bulletin administratif, 1 on Google Books.
  15. ^ Recueil des lois on Google Books.
  16. ^ Index of the Recueil des lois, 1830–1860)
  17. ^ Histoire des Belges at Internet Archive.
  18. ^ Histoire générale at Google Books.
  19. ^ Bibliotheca Belgica on Google Books.
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