Events in the year 1874 in Belgium.

Incumbents

: Monarch: Leopold II : Head of government:

Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt Barthélemy Théodore, Count de Theux de Meylandt (26 February 1794 – 21 August 1874) was a Belgian Roman Catholic politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium three times. His family de Theux de Meylandt et Montjardin originated i ...

(to 21 August);

Jules Malou Jules Edouard Xavier Malou (19 October 1810 – July 1886) was a Belgian statesman, a leader of the clerical party. Career Malou was born at Ypres. He was a civil servant in the department of justice when he was elected to the Chamber of Deput ...

(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 Nivelles ( nl, Station Nijvel) is a railway station in the town of Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. The station opened on 1 June 1874 and is located on line 124. The train services are operated by National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS). ...

inaugurated. * 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1874 * 21 August – Prime Minister

dies in office; succeeded by

* 2 September – Convention with The Netherlands for improvements to the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal signed in Brussels. * 10 September – Postal convention with Peru signed in Brussels. * 24 December – Extradition treaty with the

German Empire The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...

, replacing earlier treaties with individual German states.

Publications

* ''Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique. 1874.'' (Brussels). * Émile de Laveleye, ''De la Proprieté et de ses Formes Primitives'' * Eugène Van Bemmel, ''Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale'', vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe & Cie., 1874)On Google Books
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Art and architecture

;Paintings *

Jean-François Portaels Jean-François Portaels or Jan Portaels (3 April 1818 – 8 February 1895) was a Belgian painter of genre scenes, biblical stories, landscapes, portraits and orientalist subjects. He was also a teacher and director of the Academy of Fine Arts ...

, ''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 Jean-Sylvain Van de Weyer (19 January 1802 – 23 May 1874) was a Belgian politician who served as the Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James's, effectively the ambassador to the United Kingdom, and briefly, as the prime minister of Belgium, ...

(born 1802), politician * 4 July –

Hippolyte Boulenger Hippolyte Emmanuel Boulenger (3 December 1837 – 4 July 1874) was a Belgian landscape painter influenced by the French Barbizon school, considered to be "the Belgian Corot". Biography Hippolyte Boulenger was born to French parents in Tournai ...

(born 1837), painter * 21 August –

(born 1794) * 6 December – Gustaf Wappers (born 1803), painter

References

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