Events in the year 1864 in Belgium.

Incumbents

: Monarch: Leopold I : Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

* Belgian State Railways Type 1 taken into use ;February * 4 February – Belgian Red Cross founded ;April *

Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poetry, French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticis ...

moves to Brussels. ;May * 21 May – Father Damien ordained in Honolulu * 23 May – Provincial elections * 29 May – Princess Charlotte lands in Mexico to become Empress as consort of

Maximilian I of Mexico Maximilian I (german: Ferdinand Maximilian Josef Maria von Habsburg-Lothringen, link=no, es, Fernando Maximiliano José María de Habsburgo-Lorena, link=no; 6 July 1832 – 19 June 1867) was an Austrian archduke who reigned as the only Emperor ...

;July * 11 July – Federation of Catholic Circles and Conservative Associations formed (later to become the more formalised Catholic Party) ;August * 11 August –

1864 Belgian general election General elections were held in Belgium on 11 August 1864,Sternberger, D, Vogel, B & Nohlen, D (1969) ''Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa - Erster Halbband'', p105 the first full general elections since 1857. The snap elections were called ...

, won by Liberal Party * 29 August –

Catholic Congress in Mechelen The Malines Congresses were a series of Catholic Congresses held in Mechelen (french: Malines), Belgium, with the purpose of bringing together Catholics with leading roles in all walks of life, on the model of the German ''Katholikentage''.M. Defour ...

opens (to 3 September) ;September * Exhibition of medieval, Renaissance and contemporary religious art in Mechelen. ;October * 16 October – Belgian Legion embark for Mexico to take part in the Second French intervention in Mexico

Sports

* Royal Athletics Association Ghent founded

Publications

;Periodicals *''Annales du bibliophile belge'' begins publication. *''Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique'' begins publication, edited by Mgr. De Ram. *''Antwerpsch Archievenblad'' begins publication. *''Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique'', Volume 17 (Brussels, M. Hayez). * ''Collection de précis historiques'', vol. 13, edited by

Edouard Terwecoren Edouard Terwecoren (1815–1872) was a Belgian Jesuit author. Life Terwecoren was born in Vilvoorde on 17 June 1815. He entered the Jesuit novitiate in Nivelles in 1836. He taught at the Jesuit college in Namur and St Joseph College, Aalst, befor ...

S.J. ;Pamphlets * ''Réflexions sur les conséquences probables de l'expédition mexicaine'' (Brussels). ;Literary works * Auguste Louwage, ''Les trois soeurs Flamandes. Gand, Bruges, Anvers: trilogie nationale'' (Ghent, F. & E. Gyselynck). ;Scholarly editions * Pierre Joseph Le Boucq, ''Histoire des troubles advenues à Valenciennes à cause des hérésies, 1562-1579'', edited by A.-P.-L. de Robaulx de Soumoy (Brussels, Ghent and Leipzig).

Births

* 11 January – Henri Daco, painter (died 1932) * 26 March – Louis Reckelbus, painter (died 1958) * 21 May – Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (died 1945) * 22 May –

Josue Dupon Josue is a name, a variant of the name Joshua. It may refer to: Given name * Josué Dubois Berthelot de Beaucours (1662-1750), French military officer * Athanase Josué Coquerel (1820-1875), French Protestant theologian * Josue Dupon (1864-1935), ...

, sculptor (died 1935) * 10 October –

Blanche Arral Blanche Arral (10 October 1864 – 3 March 1945) was a Belgian coloratura soprano. Born Clara Lardinois in Liège, Belgium, the youngest of 17 children, she studied under Mathilde Marchesi, Mathilde Graumann Marchesi in Paris. She debuted in a sm ...

, soprano (died 1945) * 22 October –

Eugène Laermans Eugène Jules Joseph Baron Laermans (22 October 1864 – 22 February 1940) was a Belgian painter. Life He was born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek. At the age of eleven, he contracted meningitis, which left him deaf and nearly mute (although some source ...

, painter (died 1940) * 2 November – Oscar Roels, composer (died 1938) * 28 November –

Léon van Hout Léon van Hout (28 November 1864, in Liège – 23 November 1945, in Brussels) was a Belgian violist and music educator. From 1888 to 1894 van Hout was the violist of the Ysaÿe Quartet along with cellist Joseph Jacob, and violinists Mathieu Cri ...

, musician (died 1945)

Deaths

* 19 February – Ferdinand Lecouvet (born 1827), bibliographer.F.V.H., ''Notice biographique sur Monsieur F.-F.-J. Lecouvet'' (Ghent, L. Hebbelynck, 1864
On Google Books
* 23 March –

Jean-Baptiste Malou Joannes Baptista or Jean-Baptiste Malou (1809–1864) was a Belgian theologian who became bishop of Bruges. Life Malou was born in Ypres on 30 June 1809, the son of Senator Jean-Baptiste Malou and Marie-Thérèse Vanden Peereboom. His older broth ...

(born 1806), bishop * 5 April –

Louis Roelandt Louis Roelandt or ''Lodewijk Joseph Adriaan Roelandt'' with his full Dutch name, was a Belgian architect that played an important role in the evolution of Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Classical architecture in Belgium. During the period that Belg ...

(born 1786), architect * 27 May –

Léandre Desmaisières Léandre Joseph Antoine Desmaisières (9 September 1794 – 27 May 1864) was a Belgian politician. Biography Early life Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, Leander Desmaisières belongs to an ancient family of Hainaut, including several members were ...

(born 1794), politician * 1 September –

Jean Kickx Jean Kickx (17 January 1803, Brussels – 1864) was a Belgian botanist. His father, also known as Jean Kickx (1775–1831) was a botanist and mineralogist; his son Jean Jacques Kickx (1842–1887) was a professor of botany at the University o ...

(born 1803), botanist * 2 October – Louis-Joseph Delebecque (born 1798), bishop of Ghent

References

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