1864 in Belgium

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See also:| Other events of 1864
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1864 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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Monarch: Leopold I
Head of government: Charles Rogier

## Events

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* Belgian State Railways Type 1 taken into use

February

* 4 February – Belgian Red Cross founded

April

* Charles Baudelaire moves to Brussels.[1]

May

* 21 May – Father Damien ordained in Honolulu
* 23 May – Provincial elections
* 29 May – Princess Charlotte lands in Mexico to become Empress as consort of Maximilian I of Mexico

July

* 11 July – Federation of Catholic Circles and Conservative Associations formed (later to become the more formalised Catholic Party)

August

* 11 August – 1864 Belgian general election, won by Liberal Party
* 29 August – Catholic Congress in Mechelen opens (to 3 September)[2]

September

* Exhibition of medieval, Renaissance and contemporary religious art in Mechelen.[3]

October

* 16 October – Belgian Legion embark for Mexico to take part in the Second French intervention in Mexico

## Sports

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* Royal Athletics Association Ghent founded

## Publications

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Periodicals

* Annales du bibliophile belge begins publication.
* Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique begins publication, edited by Mgr. De Ram.[4]
* Antwerpsch Archievenblad begins publication.
* Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, Volume 17 (Brussels, M. Hayez).[5]
* Collection de précis historiques, vol. 13, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[6]

Pamphlets

* Réflexions sur les conséquences probables de l'expédition mexicaine (Brussels).[7]

Literary works

* Auguste Louwage, Les trois soeurs Flamandes. Gand, Bruges, Anvers: trilogie nationale (Ghent, F. & E. Gyselynck).[8]

Scholarly editions

* Pierre Joseph Le Boucq, Histoire des troubles advenues à Valenciennes à cause des hérésies, 1562-1579, edited by A.-P.-L. de Robaulx de Soumoy (Brussels, Ghent and Leipzig).[9]

## Births

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* 11 January – Henri Daco, painter (died 1932)
* 26 March – Louis Reckelbus, painter (died 1958)
* 21 May – Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (died 1945)
* 22 May – Josue Dupon, sculptor (died 1935)
* 10 October – Blanche Arral, soprano (died 1945)
* 22 October – Eugène Laermans, painter (died 1940)
* 2 November – Oscar Roels, composer (died 1938)
* 28 November – Léon van Hout, musician (died 1945)

## Deaths

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* 19 February – Ferdinand Lecouvet (born 1827), bibliographer.[10][11]
* 23 March – Jean-Baptiste Malou (born 1806), bishop
* 5 April – Louis Roelandt (born 1786), architect
* 27 May – Léandre Desmaisières (born 1794), politician
* 1 September – Jean Kickx (born 1803), botanist
* 2 October – Louis-Joseph Delebecque (born 1798), bishop of Ghent

## References

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1. ^ "Pourquoi Baudelaire détestait-il les Belges?". La Libre. 7 Sep 2017.
2. ^ Assemblée générale des catholiques en Belgique (Brussels, Victor Devaux, 1865) On Google Books
3. ^ William Henry James Weale (ed.), Catalogue des objets d'art religieux du Moyen-Age, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes exposés à l'Hôtel Liedekerke à Malines, septembre 1864 (2nd ed., Brussels, Charles Lelong, 1864). On Internet Archive.
4. ^ Vol. 1 on Google Books.
5. ^ On Google Books
6. ^ On Google Books
7. ^ On Google Books
8. ^ On Google Books
9. ^ On Google Books
10. ^ Ferdinand Loise, "Lecouvet (Ferdinand-François-Joseph)", in Biographie Nationale de Belgique, Volume 11 (Brussels, 1891), 596-599
11. ^ F.V.H., Notice biographique sur Monsieur F.-F.-J. Lecouvet (Ghent, L. Hebbelynck, 1864) On Google Books.

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