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List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1867 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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Monarch: Leopold II
Head of government: Charles Rogier

## Events

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February

* 2 February – Mines across the Charleroi coalfield closed by strikes.[1]: 684
* 23 February – Commercial treaty with the Austrian Empire, mutually granting most favoured nation status.[2]

April

* 25 April – Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, marries Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

May

* 11 May – Treaty of London establishes independence of Luxembourg; Prussian forces evacuated from Grand-Duchy.[1]: 684
* 17 May – New criminal code published.[1]: 684
* 19 May – Paper ballots introduced in elections.[1]: 684

July

* Delhaize Brothers begin trading.[1]: 684
* 11-18 July – 2,400 Belgian Volunteers visit London, received by the Lord Mayor, entertained by the Wimbledon Volunteers, and a ball held in their honour at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, attended by Prince Albert.[3]

August

* 2 August – Peter Benoit becomes head of the Antwerp conservatory.[1]: 684

September

* 2-7 September – Third Catholic Congress in Mechelen.

December

* 8 December – Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps named Archbishop of Mechelen in succession to the recently deceased Engelbert Sterckx (enthroned 28 January 1868).[4]

## Publications

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Periodicals

* Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)[5]
* Collection de précis historiques, 16, edited by Edouard Terwecoren[6]

Books

* Charles De Coster, La Légende d'Uylenspiegel (Brussels)

## Births

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* 19 January – Jean Delville, painter (died 1953)
* 28 February – William Degouve de Nuncques, painter (died 1935)
* 2 April – Louise Danse, painter (died 1948)
* 6 April – Maurice De Wulf, philosopher (died 1947)
* 15 May – Jef Leempoels, painter (died 1935)
* 27 May – Anna De Weert, painter (died 1950)
* 4 August – Valerius de Saedeleer, painter (died 1941)
* 7 August – Léo d'Ursel, diplomat (died 1934)
* 10 August – Bruno Destrée, monk-poet (died 1919)
* 21 June – Meyrianne Héglon, opera singer (died 1942)
* 8 November
* Léopold Charlier, violinist (died 1936)
* Léon Houa, cyclist (died 1918)
* 27 December – Léon Delacroix, prime minister (died 1929)

## Deaths

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* 10 January – Alfred Mosselman (born 1810), industrialist
* 2 March – Frans-Andries Durlet (born 1816), architect
* 4 June – Jan Teichmann (born 1788), engineer
* 10 September – Jules de Saint-Genois (born 1813), politician
* 12 November – Charles Frédéric Dubois (born 1804), naturalist
* 4 December – Engelbert Sterckx (born 1792), archbishop

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
2. ^ C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 99-100. On Google Books
3. ^ Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), pp. 781,783.
4. ^ "Installation de Monseigneur Deschamps". Le Monde illustré. Vol. 22\. p. 90.
5. ^ Almanach royal officiel at Google Books
6. ^ Collection de précis historiques at Google Books

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