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See also:	Other events of 1870; List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1870 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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.

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

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]

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]

Épidémie typhoïde de 1869 (Brussels), report of the commission of inquiry into the 1869 epidemic of typhoid fever

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)

Prix de Rome: Xavier Mellery
22 March – La Monnaie in Brussels stages first performance in French of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin^[1]^: 690

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)