1865 in Belgium

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See also:Other events of 1865
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1865 in Belgium.

Incumbents[]

Leopold II swears to uphold the constitution, 17 December 1865
Monarch: Leopold I (until 10 December); Leopold II (from in 17 December)
Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events[]

March
  • 16 March – Belgian state guarantees private savings.[1]: 679 
April
May
  • 1 May – Henricus Franciscus Bracq consecrated as bishop of Ghent
  • 22 May — Commercial treaty with the German Customs Union signed in Berlin.[2]: 177–197 
  • 26 May – 1863–75 cholera pandemic caused 45,000 fatalities in Belgium in 1865.[1]: 678 
July
August
  • 21 August — Law on tariffs and customs reform published.[2]: i-v 
September
  • 23 September – Brussels city council approves plans for the covering of the Senne.[1]: 680 
October
November
  • 2 November – Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation between China and Belgium, negotiated by Auguste t'Kint, signed in Beijing.[3]
  • 14 November – Jules Bara succeeds Victor Tesch as Minister of Justice.[1]: 680 
December
  • 10 December – Death of Leopold I of Belgium.
  • 16 December – Leopold I of Belgium buried in Laken, despite his wish to be buried in Windsor;[1]: 681  Auguste t'Kint arrives in Yokohama as the first Belgian diplomat in Japan.[3]
  • 17 December – Leopold II of Belgium sworn in as head of state.
  • 23 December — Convention between France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland forming the Latin Monetary Union signed in Paris.[2]: 240-308 

Publications[]

Periodicals
  • Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier and Rozez)[4]
  • Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 2, edited by P. F. X. de Ram.[5]
  • Annales de la Société d'émulation pour l'étude de l'histoire et des antiquités de la Flandre, 2nd series, vol. 13 (Bruges, Vandecasteele-Werbrouck)[6]
  • Annuaire de l'Université catholique de Louvain, vol. 29 (Leuven, Vanlinthout)[7]
  • Collection de précis historiques, vol. 14, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[8]
  • La Liberté begins publication (March).[1]: 679 
  • begins publication (January).[1]: 678 
  • Rond den Heerd begins publication (December).[1]: 680 
Scholarship
  • Émile de Borchgrave, Histoire des colonies belges, qui s'établirent en Allemagne pendant le XIIe et le XIIIe siècle (Brussels)
  • Joseph Jean De Smet (ed.), Recueil des chroniques de Flandre, vol. 4 (Brussels, Commission royale d'Histoire)[9]
  • Joseph Jean De Smet, Mémoire historique sur la guerre de Maximilien, roi des Romains, contre les villes de Flandre (1482-1488) (Brussels, Hayez for Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium) – a study of the Flemish revolts against Maximilian of Austria.[10]
  • , Histoire de l'artillerie en Belgique depuis son origine jusqu'au règne d'Albert et d'Isabelle (Brussels, C. Muquardt)[11]
  • Alphonse O'Kelly de Galway, Dictionnaire des cris d'armes et devises des personnages célèbres et des familles nobles et autres de la Belgique ancienne et moderne (Brussels, A. Schnée)[12]
Literature
  • Hendrik Conscience, De Burgemeester van Luik

Art and architecture[]

Henri Leys, Portrait of Lucie Leys, his daughter (1865)
Buildings
Paintings
  • Henri Leys, Lucie Leys

Science[]

Balance of trade[]

In 1865 imports to Belgium were valued at 1.364 million francs, with exports of 1.204 million francs.[13]

Births[]

  • Date uncertain – Joseph Middeleer, painter (died 1939)
  • 19 January – Égide Rombaux, sculptor (died 1942)
  • 27 January – Ferdinand Feyerick, fencer (died 1920)
  • 30 January – Marie de Bièvre, painter (died 1909)
  • 25 February – Flavie Van den Hende, cellist (died 1925)
  • 2 March – Théo Ysaÿe, composer (died 1918)
  • 7 March – Jean Massart, botanist (died 1925)
  • 2 April – Louise Danse, painter (died 1948)
  • 4 April – Clément Van Bogaert, engineer (died 1937)
  • 1 May – Frans Mortelmans, painter (died 1936)
  • 4 May – Servais Le Roy, entertainer (died 1953)
  • 9 May – August de Boeck, composer (died 1937)
  • 21 May – Evert Larock, painter (died 1901)
  • 6 June – Antoon Jozef Witteryck, publisher (died 1934)
  • 15 June – Paul Gilson, composer (died 1942)
  • 14 July – Marguerite Verboeckhoven, painter (died 1949)

Deaths[]

  • 3 January – Joseph Lies, painter (born 1821)
  • 5 January – Pierre Kersten, publisher (born 1789)
  • 14 January – Marie-Anne Libert, botanist (born 1782)
  • 19 March – Joseph Lebeau, politician (born 1794)
  • 26 April – Charles-Joseph Sax musical instrument maker (born 1790)
  • 14 May – Pierre François Xavier de Ram, historian (born 1804)
  • 18 June – Antoine Wiertz, painter (born 1806)
  • 12 July – Constant de Kerchove de Denterghem, politician (born 1790)
  • 23 July – Frans Alfons Janssens, priest-scientist (died 1924)

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
  2. ^ a b c Recueil des traités et conventions concernant le royaume de Belgique vol. 6, edited by Désiré de Garcia de la Vega (Brussels, 1866).
  3. ^ a b Dirk De Ruyver, "The First Treaty between Belgium and Japan", in Japan & Belgium: An Itinerary of Mutual Inspiration, edited by W.F. Vande Walle and David De Cooman (Tielt, 2016), pp. 21-111.
  4. ^ Almanach on Google Books.
  5. ^ Analectes on Google Books]
  6. ^ Annales at Internet Archive.
  7. ^ Annuaire at Internet Archive.
  8. ^ Collection de précis historiques on Google Books.
  9. ^ Recueil des chroniques de Flandre, vol. 4 on Google Books
  10. ^ Mémoire historique on Google Books.
  11. ^ Histoire de l'artillerie at Internet Archive.
  12. ^ Dictionnaire des cris d'armes at Internet Archive.
  13. ^ Minister of Finances, Tableau annuel du commerce avec les pays étrangers pendant l'année 1865 (Brussels, 1866), p. ix. (Available on Google Books)
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