1860 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1860 in Belgium.
Incumbents[edit]
Events[edit]
- 28 May – Provincial elections
- 9 July – Belgian consulate in Damascus destroyed during anti-Christian pogroms.[1]
- 18 July – Duties charged on goods brought from the countryside into towns abolished.[2]
- 7 October – One of the monks sets fire to the church and one of the dormitories at Scourmont Priory.[3]
- 16 November – Execution of Jan Coucke and Pieter Goethals.
Publications[edit]
- Periodicals
- Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 8.[4][5]
- Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 26.[6]
- Annuaire militaire officiel, 14.[7]
- La Belgique Horticole, 10.[8]
- La Belgique[9]
- Bulletin du bibliophile belge, 16[10]
- Collection de précis historiques, 9, edited by Edouard Terwecoren[11]
- Monographs and reports
- La Belgique en 1860 (Brussels, Philippe Hen).[12]
- Manifestation nationale du peuple belge en 1860 (Brussels, E. Guyot, and Haarlem, J. J. Weeveringh).[13]
- Recueil des pièces imprimées par ordre de la Chambre des Représentants, vol. 1.[14]
- Louis Hymans, Histoire populaire de la Belgique (Brussels and Leipzig, Auguste Schnée)[15]
- F. Prové, De la question monétaire en Belgique (Brussels, J.-B. Tarride).[16]
- Guidebooks
- A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland (London, John Murray).[17]
- Literature
- Joseph Octave Delepierre, A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature and its Celebrated Authors from the Twelfth Century to the Present Time (London, John Murray).[18]
- Jules de Saint-Genois, Profils et portraits
Births[edit]
- 12 January – Charles Lemonnier, politician (died 1930)
- 24 February – Max Waller, writer (died 1889)
- 11 March – Rodolphe Wytsman, painter (died 1927)
- 2 April – Paul Costermans, colonial administrator (died 1905)
- 13 April – James Ensor, painter (died 1949)
- 2 May – Heva Coomans, painter (died 1939)
- 23 June – Albert Giraud, poet (died 1929)
- 28 June – Aloïs Biebuyck, officer (died 1944)
- 12 August – Ernest Baert, explorer (died 1894)
- 26 August – Luis Siret, archaeologist (died 1934)
- 4 December – Charles de Broqueville, politician (died 1940)
- 15 December – Alphonse Michaux, engraver (died 1928)
- 30 December – Leon Mazy, muralist (died 1938)
Deaths[edit]
- 1 April – Joseph Guislain (born 1797), physician
- 20 April – Charles de Brouckère (born 1796), politician
- 27 April – John E. Blox (born 1810), Jesuit
- 11 September – Jean-Baptiste Masui (born 1798), civil engineer
- 27 September – Charles-Joseph, 4th Duke d'Ursel (born 1777), politician
- 10 October – Jules Victor Génisson (born 1805), painter
- 13 October – Egide Linnig (born 1821), artist
- 22 October – Pieter Vanderghinste (born 1789), composer
References[edit]
- ^ Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 577.
- ^ "Loi du 18 juillet 1860 portant abolition des octrois communaux". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 18 July 1860.
- ^ "Incendie du couvent des Trappistes – Le frère Robyn accusé", La Belgique judiciaire, vol. 19, no. 15 (21 February 1861), 233-235.[1]
- ^ Annales de pomologie on Wikisource (French).
- ^ Annales de pomologie on Google Books.
- ^ Annuaire de l'Académie Royale. Vol. 26.
- ^ Annuaire militaire, vol. 14 on Google Books.
- ^ La Belgique Horticole, vol. 10 on Google Books.
- ^ La Belgique, vol. 9, vol. 10 on Google Books.
- ^ Bulletin du bibliophile belge, vol. 16 on Google Books.
- ^ Collection de précis historiques, vol. 9 on Google Books.
- ^ La Belgique en 1860 on Google Books.
- ^ Manifestation nationale on Google Books.
- ^ Recueil des pièces on Google Books.
- ^ Histoire populaire on Google Books.
- ^ De la question monétaire on Google Books.
- ^ Handbook for Travellers on Google Books.
- ^ A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature online at the Austrian National Library.
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