1860 in Belgium

Events in the year 1860 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarchy of Belgium: Leopold I
 * Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

 * 28 May – Provincial elections
 * 9 July – Belgian consulate in Damascus destroyed during anti-Christian pogroms.
 * 18 July – Duties charged on goods brought from the countryside into towns abolished.
 * 7 October – One of the monks sets fire to the church and one of the dormitories at Scourmont Priory.
 * 16 November – Execution of Jan Coucke and Pieter Goethals.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 8.
 * Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 26.
 * Annuaire militaire officiel, 14.
 * La Belgique Horticole, 10.
 * La Belgique
 * Bulletin du bibliophile belge, 16
 * Collection de précis historiques, 9, edited by Edouard Terwecoren


 * Monographs and reports
 * La Belgique en 1860 (Brussels, Philippe Hen).
 * Manifestation nationale du peuple belge en 1860 (Brussels, E. Guyot, and Haarlem, J. J. Weeveringh).
 * Recueil des pièces imprimées par ordre de la Chambre des Représentants, vol. 1.
 * Louis Hymans, Histoire populaire de la Belgique (Brussels and Leipzig, Auguste Schnée)
 * F. Prové, De la question monétaire en Belgique (Brussels, J.-B. Tarride).


 * Guidebooks
 * A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland (London, John Murray).


 * Literature
 * Joseph Octave Delepierre, A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature and its Celebrated Authors from the Twelfth Century to the Present Time (London, John Murray).
 * Jules de Saint-Genois, Profils et portraits

Births

 * 12 January – Charles Lemonnier, politician (died 1930)
 * 24 February – Max Waller, writer (died 1889)
 * 11 March – Rodolphe Wytsman, painter (died 1927)
 * 2 April – Paul Costermans, colonial administrator (died 1905)
 * 13 April – James Ensor, painter (died 1949)
 * 2 May – Heva Coomans, painter (died 1939)
 * 23 June – Albert Giraud, poet (died 1929)
 * 28 June – Aloïs Biebuyck, officer (died 1944)
 * 12 August – Ernest Baert, explorer (died 1894)
 * 26 August – Luis Siret, archaeologist (died 1934)
 * 4 December – Charles de Broqueville, politician (died 1940)
 * 15 December – Alphonse Michaux, engraver (died 1928)
 * 30 December – Leon Mazy, muralist (died 1938)

Deaths

 * 1 April – Joseph Guislain (born 1797), physician
 * 20 April – Charles de Brouckère (born 1796), politician
 * 27 April – John E. Blox (born 1810), Jesuit
 * 11 September – Jean-Baptiste Masui (born 1798), civil engineer
 * 27 September – Charles-Joseph, 4th Duke d'Ursel (born 1777), politician
 * 10 October – Jules Victor Génisson (born 1805), painter
 * 13 October – Egide Linnig (born 1821), artist
 * 22 October – Pieter Vanderghinste (born 1789), composer