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1868 in Belgium

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1868
in
Belgium

Decades:
See also:Other events of 1868
List of years in Belgium
Jean-Baptiste Van Moer, Brussels in 1868 (1872)

Events in the year 1868 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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Monarch: Leopold II
Head of government: Charles Rogier (to 3 January); Walthère Frère-Orban (from 3 January)

Events

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January
March
May
  • 25 May – Provincial elections
June
August
  • 6 August – 47 miners killed by a fire damp explosion in the Sainte Henriette mine near Jemappes.[3]: 836 
September
October
  • 23 October – Frederick Doulton, MP, brought to trial in Brussels on charges of fraud in public works, but acquitted of having broken any law.[3]: 843 

Publications

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Periodicals
  • Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)[4]
  • Collection de précis historiques, vol. 17, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[5]
  • Socialist daily newspaper De Werker launched in Antwerp (October).[2]: 686 
Series
History
  • Charles Niellon, Histoire des événements militaires et des conspirations orangistes de la révolution en Belgique de 1830 à 1833 (Brussels, M.J. Poot)[6]
Literature

Art and architecture

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Inauguration of Louis Jehotte's equestrian statue of Charlemagne in Liège
Paintings
Sculptures

Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ "Installation de Monseigneur Deschamps". Le Monde illustré. Vol. 22. 1868. p. 90.
  2. ^ a b c d Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
  3. ^ a b Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871).
  4. ^ "Almanach royal officiel de Belgique". 1868.
  5. ^ On Google Books
  6. ^ On Google Books