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The following lists events that happened during
1879
in the
Kingdom of Belgium
.
Incumbents
[
edit
]
Monarch
:
Leopold II
[
1
]
Prime Minister
:
Walthère Frère-Orban
Events
[
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]
Firedamp explosion at Agrappe Mine, 17 April 1879
2 March – Castle in
Tervuren
burns down.
17 April –
Firedamp
explosion at Agrappe Mine in
Frameries
.
1 July – Law secularising primary education passes, triggering
First School War
[
2
]
Publications
[
edit
]
Periodicals
Almanach de Poche de Bruxelles
(Brussels, H. Manceaux)
[
3
]
Bulletin de la Société belge de géographie
, 3 (Brussels, Secrétariat de la Société Belge de Géographie)
[
4
]
Books
Hendrik Conscience
,
Het wassen beeld
Léon Vanderkindere
,
Le siècle des Artevelde: études sur la civilisation morale & politique de la Flandre & du Brabant
(Brussels, A.-N. Lebègue).
[
5
]
Art and architecture
[
edit
]
Leuven railway station, rebuilt 1879
Leuven railway station
rebuilt
Births
[
edit
]
5 February –
Jules De Bisschop
, Olympic rower (died 1954)
15 February –
Camille Van Hoorden
, footballer (died 1919)
28 April –
Edgard Tytgat
, painter (died 1957)
29 April –
Marie Haps
, philanthropist (died 1939)
22 May –
Aston Chichester
, bishop (died 1962)
27 May –
Arthur Balbaert
, sports shooter (died 1938)
24 August –
Achille Delattre
, politician (died 1964)
26 September –
Alexandre Galopin
, businessman (died 1944)
9 October –
Edgar Sengier
, mining engineer (died 1963)
21 October –
Maurice Beeli
, botanist (died 1957)
25 October –
Jean Rogister
, musician (died 1964)
18 December
Joseph Lebon
, theologian (died 1957)
Deaths
[
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]
7 May –
Charles De Coster
(born 1827), novelist
19 May –
Jules Anspach
(born 1829), politician
16 July –
Konrad Martin
(born 1812), German bishop
11 August –
Jan Swerts
(born 1820), painter
18 August –
Joseph Octave Delepierre
(born 1802), antiquary
24 August –
Théodore de Montpellier
(born 1807), bishop of Liège
30 September –
Félicien Chapuis
(born 1824), entomologist
3 November –
Joseph Poelaert
(born 1817), architect
9 December –
Jacob Jacobs
(born 1812), painter
References
[
edit
]
^
"Leopold II | king of Belgium"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
28 March
2019
.
^
Mathias El Berhoumi,
Le régime juridique de la liberté d'enseignement à l'épreuve des politiques scolaires
(Bruylant, 2013).
^
On Archives de Bruxelles
^
"Bulletin"
. 1879.
^
On Google Books
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