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Events in the year 1874 in Belgium.
Incumbents[edit]
- Monarch: Leopold II
- Head of government: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 21 August); Jules Malou (from 21 August)
Events[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Paintings
- Jean-François Portaels, Juive de Tanger
Births[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Convention postale entre la Belgique et le Perou, signée à Bruxelles le 10 septembre 1874". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 10 September 1874.
- ^ "Convention d'extradition entre la Belgique et l'Allemagne, signée à Bruxelles le 24 décembre 1874". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 24 December 1874.
- ^ Belgium (1874). "Pasinomie: Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique".
- ^ English translation by G.R.L. Marriott, Primitive Property (London, 1878), on Internet Archive
- ^ On Google Books
