Events in the year 1876 in

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

Incumbents

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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 ...

Events

* 20 April – Leopold I of Belgium, Leopold I's mortal remains transferred to the crypt of the Church of Our Lady of Laeken * 22 May – Provincial elections * 13 June – 1876 Belgian general election, Partial legislative election * 12 September – Brussels Geographic Conference opens, leading to the foundation of the International African Association * 27 September – Opening of the International Congress of Hygiene and Life-Saving Equipment in Brussels, as part of the International Exhibition of Hygiene.

Publications

;Periodicals * ''Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique'', 45 (Brussels, F. Hayez). * ''Revue de Belgique'', 23. * ''Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère'', 2. ;Other * Léon d'Andrimont, ''La coopération ouvrière en Belgique''.On Google Books
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Art and architecture

;Buildings * Oostakker Basilica completed

Births

* 1 March ** Henri de Baillet-Latour, International Olympic Committee, IOC president (died 1942) ** Maurice Emile Marie Goetghebuer, entomologist (died 1962) * 7 April – Jules Degeetere, cyclist (died 1957) * 26 June – Armand Renier, geologist (died 1951) * 16 July – Victor van Strydonck de Burkel, general (died 1961) * 2 August – Julien Lootens, cyclist (died 1942) * 19 August – Oscar de Somville, Olympic rower (died 1938) * 8 September – Thomas Braun, poet (died 1961) * 12 September – Flor Alpaerts, composer (died 1954) * 26 September – Georges Lebacq, painter (died 1950) * 18 October – Charles van den Bussche, Olympic sailor (died 1958) * 17 November – Joseph Van De Meulebroeck, politician (died 1958) * 16 December – Rodolphe Seeldrayers, FIFA president (died 1955)

Deaths

* 7 January – Marie Thérèse Haze (born 1782), religious foundress * 16 April – Auguste de Peellaert (born 1793), soldier and artist * 17 April – Adolphe Pierre Sunaert (born 1825), artist and teacher * 9 May – Louis van Houtte (born 1810), horticulturalist * 23 May – Victor de Buck (born 1817), Jesuit * 23 August – Giovanni Inchindi (born 1798), opera singer * 29 October – Jacques Gregoir (born 1817), composer

References

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