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    1868 in Belgium

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    Jean-Baptiste Van Moer, Brussels in 1868 (1872)

    Events in the year 1868 in Belgium.

    Incumbents

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    Monarch: Leopold II
    Head of government: Charles Rogier (to 3 January); Walthère Frère-Orban (from 3 January)

    Events

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    January
    • 3 January – Walthère Frère-Orban replaces Charles Rogier as Prime Minister
    • 28 January – Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps enthroned as Archbishop of Mechelen.[1]
    March
    • 1 March – Société Libre des Beaux-Arts founded.[2]: 686 
    • 24 March – 20 killed when soldiers shoot on striking miners from the Epine mine in Dampremy.[2]: 686 
    May
    • 25 May – Provincial elections
    June
    • 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1868
    August
    • 6 August – 47 miners killed by a fire damp explosion in the Sainte Henriette mine near Jemappes.[3]: 836 
    September
    • 7 September – Third international workers congress opens in Brussels.[2]: 687 
    October
    • 23 October – Frederick Doulton, MP, brought to trial in Brussels on charges of fraud in public works, but acquitted of having broken any law.[3]: 843 

    Publications

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    Periodicals
    • Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)[4]
    • Collection de précis historiques, vol. 17, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[5]
    • Socialist daily newspaper De Werker launched in Antwerp (October).[2]: 686 
    Series
    • Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 2
    History
    • Charles Niellon, Histoire des événements militaires et des conspirations orangistes de la révolution en Belgique de 1830 à 1833 (Brussels, M.J. Poot)[6]
    Literature
    • Maria Doolaeghe, Winterbloemen

    Art and architecture

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    Inauguration of Louis Jehotte's equestrian statue of Charlemagne in Liège
    • Société Libre des Beaux-Arts founded
    Paintings
    • Charles-Philogène Tschaggeny, The Covered Wagon
    Sculptures
    • Louis Jehotte's equestrian statue of Charlemagne inaugurated in Liège

    Births

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    • 11 January – François Ruhlmann, conductor (died 1948)
    • 5 February – Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer (died 1952)
    • 23 February – Paul Bergmans, librarian (died 1935)
    • 5 March – Prosper Poullet, politician (died 1937)
    • 27 April – Herman Vander Linden, politician (died 1956)
    • 18 June – Anna Kernkamp, artist (died 1947)
    • 23 August – Paul Otlet, bibliographer (died 1944)
    • 15 November – Marguerite Putsage, painter (died 1946)
    • 28 November – Louis Franck, politician (died 1937)

    Deaths

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    • 13 February – Dieudonné Stas (born 1791), newspaperman
    • 17 April – Guillaume-Hippolyte van Volxem (born 1791), politician
    • 30 April – Charles Le Hon (born 1792), politician
    • 9 July – Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps (born 1783), military inventor
    • 21 July – Édouard Ducpétiaux (born 1804), prison reformer

    References

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    1. ^ "Installation de Monseigneur Deschamps". Le Monde illustré. Vol. 22. 1868. p. 90.
    2. ^ a b c d Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
    3. ^ a b Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871).
    4. ^ "Almanach royal officiel de Belgique". 1868.
    5. ^ On Google Books
    6. ^ On Google Books
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