1874 in Belgium

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List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1874 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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Monarch: Leopold II
Head of government: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 21 August); Jules Malou (from 21 August)

## Events

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* 20 January – Royal decree providing for subsidies to the dramatic arts.
* 19 March – Extradition treaty with the United States of America.
* 25 May – Provincial elections
* 1 June – Service starts on Brussels–Charleroi railway line. Nivelles railway station inaugurated.
* 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1874
* 21 August – Prime Minister Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt dies in office; succeeded by Jules Malou
* 2 September – Convention with The Netherlands for improvements to the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal signed in Brussels.[1]
* 10 September – Postal convention with Peru signed in Brussels.[2]
* 24 December – Extradition treaty with the German Empire, replacing earlier treaties with individual German states.[3]

## Publications

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* Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique. 1874. (Brussels).[4]

* Émile de Laveleye, De la Proprieté et de ses Formes Primitives[5]
* Eugène Van Bemmel, Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe & Cie., 1874)[6]

## Art and architecture

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Jean-François Portaels, Juive de Tanger (1874)

Paintings

* Jean-François Portaels, Juive de Tanger

## Births

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* 13 January – Jozef-Ernest van Roey, archbishop (died 1961)
* 26 February – Gaston-Antoine Rasneur, bishop (died 1939)
* 19 April – Firmin Baes, painter (died 1943)

## Deaths

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* 17 February – Adolphe Quetelet (born 1796), mathematician
* 23 May – Sylvain Van de Weyer (born 1802), politician
* 4 July – Hippolyte Boulenger (born 1837), painter
* 21 August – Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (born 1794)
* 6 December –  Gustaf Wappers (born 1803), painter

## References

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1. ^ "Convention entre la Belgique et les Pays-Bas pour l'amélioration du canal de Gand à Terneuzen, signée à Bruxelles le 2 septembre 1874". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 2 September 1874.
2. ^ "Convention postale entre la Belgique et le Perou, signée à Bruxelles le 10 septembre 1874". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 10 September 1874.
3. ^ "Convention d'extradition entre la Belgique et l'Allemagne, signée à Bruxelles le 24 décembre 1874". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 24 December 1874.
4. ^ Belgium (1874). "Pasinomie: Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique".
5. ^ English translation by G.R.L. Marriott, Primitive Property (London, 1878), on Internet Archive
6. ^ On Google Books

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