1867 in Belgium

Events in the year 1867 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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

Events

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


 * 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.
 * 17 May – New criminal code published.
 * 19 May – Paper ballots introduced in elections.


 * July
 * Delhaize Brothers begin trading.
 * 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.


 * August
 * 2 August – Peter Benoit becomes head of the Antwerp conservatory.


 * 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).

Publications

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


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

Births

 * 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

 * 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