1874 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1874 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II

Head of government: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 21 August); Jules Malou (from 21 August)

Events

• 20 January – Royal decree providing for subsidies to the dramatic arts.
• 19 March – Extradition treaty with the United States of America.
• 25 May – Provincial elections
• 1 June – Service starts on Brussels–Charleroi railway line. Nivelles railway station inaugurated.
• 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1874
• 21 August – Prime Minister Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt dies in office; succeeded by Jules Malou
• 2 September – Convention with The Netherlands for improvements to the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal signed in Brussels.^[1]
• 10 September – Postal convention with Peru signed in Brussels.^[2]
• 24 December – Extradition treaty with the German Empire, replacing earlier treaties with individual German states.^[3]

Publications

• Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique. 1874. (Brussels).^[4]

• Émile de Laveleye, De la Proprieté et de ses Formes Primitives^[5]
• Eugène Van Bemmel, Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe & Cie., 1874)^[6]

Art and architecture

Jean-François Portaels, Juive de Tanger (1874)

Paintings

• Jean-François Portaels, Juive de Tanger

Births

• 13 January – Jozef-Ernest van Roey, archbishop (died 1961)
• 26 February – Gaston-Antoine Rasneur, bishop (died 1939)
• 19 April – Firmin Baes, painter (died 1943)

Deaths

• 17 February – Adolphe Quetelet (born 1796), mathematician
• 23 May – Sylvain Van de Weyer (born 1802), politician
• 4 July – Hippolyte Boulenger (born 1837), painter
• 21 August – Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (born 1794)
• 6 December –  Gustaf Wappers (born 1803), painter

References

1. "Convention entre la Belgique et les Pays-Bas pour l'amélioration du canal de Gand à Terneuzen, signée à Bruxelles le 2 septembre 1874". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 2 September 1874.
2. "Convention postale entre la Belgique et le Perou, signée à Bruxelles le 10 septembre 1874". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 10 September 1874.
3. "Convention d'extradition entre la Belgique et l'Allemagne, signée à Bruxelles le 24 décembre 1874". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 24 December 1874.
4. Belgium (1874). "Pasinomie: Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique".
5. English translation by G.R.L. Marriott, Primitive Property (London, 1878), on Internet Archive
6. On Google Books