1869 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1869 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II
Head of government: Walthère Frère-Orban

Events

  • Epidemic of typhoid fever in Brussels.
  • Brussels-South railway station opens.[1]: 689 
February
  • 20 February – Belgian senate passes a law prohibiting any French company from purchasing Belgian railways.[2]: 860 
April
  • 12 April – Metalworkers' strike at Cockerill in Seraing violently repressed[1]: 688  (inspiring Karl Marx to write The Belgian Massacres).
  • 25 April – Protocol signed to settle railway disputes between France and Belgium.[2]: 869 
May
September
  • 8 September – Belgian railways introduce cheap workers' season tickets.[1]: 689 

Publications

Periodicals
  • Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)[3]
  • Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 6[4]
  • Collection de précis historiques, vol. 18, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[5]
Studies and reports
  • Édouard van den Corput, Origine et cause de l'epidémie de fièvre typhoide qui a règné à Bruxelles en 1869 (Brussels).
  • Jean-Auguste Jourdain, Dictionnaire encyclopédique de géographie historique du royaume en Belgique[6]
Literature

Births

Deaths

The death of Prince Leopold

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
  2. ^ a b c d Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871).
  3. ^ "Almanach royal officiel de Belgique". 1869.
  4. ^ "Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique". 1864.
  5. ^ On Google Books
  6. ^ vol. 1, vol. 2
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