1869 in Belgium

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.


 * February
 * 20 February – Belgian senate passes a law prohibiting any French company from purchasing Belgian railways.


 * April
 * 12 April – Metalworkers' strike at Cockerill in Seraing violently repressed (inspiring Karl Marx to write The Belgian Massacres).
 * 25 April – Protocol signed to settle railway disputes between France and Belgium.


 * May
 * 31 May – Horse-drawn buses introduced in Brussels.


 * September
 * 8 September – Belgian railways introduce cheap workers' season tickets.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)
 * Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 6
 * Collection de précis historiques, vol. 18, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.


 * 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


 * Literature
 * Maria Doolaeghe Najaarsvruchten

Births

 * 5 April – Isabelle Errera, art historian (died 1929)
 * 3 June – Prince Baudouin of Belgium (died 1891)

Deaths

 * 22 January – Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne (born 1859).
 * 4 February – Johan Michiel Dautzenberg (born 1808), poet and educationalist.
 * 26 August – Henri Leys (born 1815), painter.
 * 11 October – François-Joseph Navez (born 1787), painter.
 * 3 November – Cornelis Broeckx (born 1807), physician and bibliophile