1870 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1870 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold II
- Head of government: Walthère Frère-Orban (to 16 June); Jules d'Anethan (from 2 July)
Events
- March
- 4 March – Law on Temporalities establishes state oversight of parish finances.
- May
- 23 May – Provincial elections
- June
- 3 June – new conscription law, expanding numbers but retaining selection by lottery.[1]:690
- 11 June – Partial legislative elections of 1870 return a hung parliament
- 16 June – Walthère Frère-Orban resigns as Prime Minister
- 18 June – Affligem Abbey, closed in 1796, refounded.
- July
- 2 July – Jules d'Anethan replaces Walthère Frère-Orban as Prime Minister
- 13 July – Liberal Party conference in Brussels draws up new party programme.[1]:690
- 15 July – General mobilisation in response to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War
- August
- 2 August – General election, to break impasse of hung parliament, returns Catholic Party majority.[1]:690
- 11 August – France and Prussia give assurances to Britain that Belgian neutrality will be respected during the Franco-Prussian War.[1]:690
- September
- 2 September – Belgian Red Cross despatches medical units to Lorraine in the wake of the Battle of Sedan.[1]:690
- 23 September – Sumptuous public celebration of the 40th anniversary of Belgian independence.[2]
Publications
- Periodicals
- Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)[3]
- Annuaire statistique de la Belgique begins publication (Brussels, Imprimerie de Delevingne et Callewaert)[4]
- L'Illustration Européenne begins publication (Brussels, Bureaux de l'Administration)[5]
- Official studies and reports
- Épidémie typhoïde de 1869 (Brussels), report of the commission of inquiry into the 1869 epidemic of typhoid fever
- Books
- Émile de Borchgrave, Histoire des rapports de droit public qui existèrent entre les provinces belges et l'Empire d'Allemagne depuis le démembrement de la monarchie carolingienne jusqu'à l'incorporation de la Belgique à la République française (Brussels, 1870)[6]
- Prosper de Haulleville, De l'enseignement primaire en Belgique[7]
- Prosper de Haulleville, La Nationalité belge; ou Flamands et Wallons[8]
- Émile de Laveleye, La Russie et l'Autriche depuis Sadowa
- Émile de Laveleye, "Land System of Belgium and Holland", in Systems of Land Tenure in Various Countries (London, Macmillan & Co.)[9]
- François Merten, Géographie industrielle et commerciale de la Belgique (Ghent, H. Hoste)[10]
- Adolphe Quetelet, Anthropométrie, ou Mesure des différentes facultés de l'homme (Brussels, Leipzig and Ghent)
Science
- Botanical Garden of Brussels (founded 1826) bought by the Belgian state.
Art and architecture
- Prix de Rome: Xavier Mellery
- 22 March – La Monnaie in Brussels stages first performance in French of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin[1]:690
Births
- 4 February – Raoul Warocqué, politician (died 1917)
- 28 March – Adolphe De Meulemeester, colonial official (died 1944)
- 7 April – Joseph Ryelandt, composer and musicologist (died 1965)
- 13 June – Jules Bordet, Nobel prize-winning microbiologist (died 1961)
- 28 July – Henri Jaspar, politician (died 1939)
- 24 October – Charles Saroléa, philologist (died 1953)
- 30 November – Princess Henriette of Belgium (died 1948) and Princess Joséphine Marie of Belgium (died 1871)
Deaths
- 30 March – Charles de Groux (born 1825), painter
- 8 April – Charles Auguste de Bériot (born 1802), composer
- 6 June – Henri Adolphe Schaep (born 1826), painter
- 18 July – Jean Théodore Lacordaire (born 1801), entomologist
References
- Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
- Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 949.
- On Google Books
- Online
- Vol. 1 on Google Books
- On Google Books
- https://books.google.com/books?id=lxRCAAAAcAAJ
- https://books.google.com/books?id=FWdDAAAAcAAJ
- https://archive.org/stream/cu31924021470202#page/n243/mode/2up
- https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8RSAAAAcAAJ
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