The following lists events that happened during

1882 Events January–March * January 2 ** The Standard Oil Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates. ** Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in ...

in the

Kingdom of 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 the ...

Incumbents

* Monarch: Leopold II * Prime Minister:

Walthère Frère-Orban Hubert Joseph Walthère Frère-Orban (24 April 1812 – 2 January 1896) was a Belgian liberal statesman. Early life He was born at Liège, received his education at home and in Paris, and began the practice of law in his native town. He identif ...

Events

* Louis Dollo reconstructs the iguanodons found in Bernissart. * 7 January – Léon and Armand Peltzer murder Guillaume Bernays at 159 Rue de la Loi, Brussels (the Peltzer Case). * 6 May –

North Sea Fisheries Convention The North Sea Fisheries Convention, officially known as the International Convention for regulating the police of the North Sea fisheries outside territorial waters, was a treaty that was signed on May 6, 1882. The inaugural conference was intende ...

signed, to come into effect in 1884. * 22 May – Provincial elections * 13 June –

Legislative elections A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

* 31 July – Désiré-Joseph Mercier appointed to the new chair in

Thomist philosophy Thomism is the philosophical and theological school that arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), the Dominican philosopher, theologian, and Doctor of the Church. In philosophy, Aquinas' disputed questions ...

at the Catholic University of Louvain. * 27 November – The Peltzer Case comes to trial before the Brussels

Court of assizes A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordanc ...

. * December –

Jean-Charles Houzeau Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie (October 7, 1820 – July 12, 1888) was a Belgian astronomer and journalist. A French speaker, he moved to New Orleans after getting in trouble for his politics in Belgium. In the U.S. he continued his journalistic ...

leads a scientific expedition to San Antonio, Texas, to observe a transit of Venus in order to determine the solar parallax.

Publications

;Periodicals * ''Bulletins de l'Acadie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique'', 3rd series, vol. 4 ;Conference proceedings * ''Congrès international de l'enseignement, Bruxelles, 1880: Discussions'' (Brussels, Librairie de l'Office de Publicité)On Internet Archive
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Art and architecture

;Buildings * Henri Rieck's ''

Passage du Nord The (French) or ( Dutch), meaning "Northern Passage", is a glazed shopping arcade in central Brussels, Belgium. It was built in 1881–82 in an eclectic style by Henri Rieck, following the covering of the Senne and the creation of the Cent ...

'' opens in Brussels * 1 July – Last stone laid of

Palais de Justice, Brussels The Palace of Justice of Brussels (french: Palais de Justice de Bruxelles, ; Dutch: ) or Law Courts of Brussels, nl, Rechtbank van Brussel is a courthouse in Brussels, Belgium. It is the country's most important court building, seat of the j ...

(formally opened 1883)

Births

* 10 January –

Eugène Joseph Delporte Eugène Joseph Delporte (10 January 1882 – 19 October 1955) was a Belgian astronomer born in Genappe. He discovered a total of sixty-six asteroids. Notable discoveries include 1221 Amor (which lent its name to the Amor asteroids) and th ...

, astronomer (died 1955) * 5 February – Georges Dandoy, missionary (died 1962) * 1 April –

Paul Anspach Paul Eugène Albert Anspach (1 April 1882 – 28 August 1981) was a Belgian épée and foil fencer who competed in four consecutive Olympics (1908, 1912, 1920 and 1924). His grand-uncle, Jules Anspach (1829-1879), was Brussels burgomaster. Ea ...

, fencer (died 1981) * 16 June –

Josef Christiaens Josef Henri Charles Christiaens, sometimes spelt Joseph (16 June 1882 – 25 February 1919), was a Belgian engineer, racecar driver and aviator. Biography Christiaens was born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode on 16 June 1882 to a prosperous Belgian ...

, driver and aviator (died 1919) * 10 July – Henri Anspach, fencer (died 1979) * 15 July –

Albert Hustin Albert Hustin (1882–1967) was a Belgian medical doctor. Hustin was born in Ethe and died in Uccle (Uccle Brussels – Belgium). In 1914, he was the first person to successfully practice non-direct blood transfusions with sodium citrate Sodium ...

, doctor (died 1967) * 2 September –

Nico Gunzburg Nico Gunzburg (2 September 1882, Riga, Russian Empire – 5 March 1984, Antwerp, Belgium) was a Belgian lawyer, criminologist and centenarian A centenarian is a person who has reached the age of 100 years. Because life expectancies worldw ...

, criminologist (died 1984) * 19 October – Norbert Wallez, newspaper editor (died 1952)

Deaths

* 7 February – Édouard De Bièfve (born 1808), painter * 9 July –

Louis-Charles Verwee Louis-Charles Verwée or Louis Charles Verwee (3 July 1832 – 9 July 1882) was a Belgian painter known for his interior scenes, genre scenes and glamorous society portraits. His genre scenes show romantic intrigues and young society ladies.

(born 1832), painter * 25 September –

Désiré van Monckhoven Désiré Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven (1834–1882) was a Belgian chemist, physicist, and photographic researcher. He was also an inventor and author.Day, Lance ''et al.'' (1996) ''Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology,'' p. 49 ...

(born 1834), photographer * 17 November – Henri Julien Allard (born 1803), politician

References

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