1864 in Belgium

Events in the year 1864 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold I
 * Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

 * Belgian State Railways Type 1 taken into use


 * February
 * 4 February – Belgian Red Cross founded


 * April
 * Charles Baudelaire moves to Brussels.


 * 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)


 * September
 * Exhibition of medieval, Renaissance and contemporary religious art in Mechelen.


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

Sports

 * Royal Athletics Association Ghent founded

Publications

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


 * Pamphlets
 * Réflexions sur les conséquences probables de l'expédition mexicaine (Brussels).


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


 * 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).

Births

 * 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

 * 19 February – Ferdinand Lecouvet (born 1827), bibliographer.
 * 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