1871 in Belgium

Events in the year 1871 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold II
 * Head of government: Jules d'Anethan (to 7 December); Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (from 7 December)

Events

 * January
 * 1 January – Belgium repeals import duty on salt.


 * February
 * 21 February – Regular railway services between France and Belgium resumed.


 * March
 * 21 March – Victor Hugo moves to Brussels.


 * June
 * 1 June – Victor Hugo expelled from Belgium for endangering the public peace after publishing a letter in L'Indépendance Belge of 26 May criticising the Belgian government's attitude to Communard refugees.


 * December
 * 7 December – Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt replaces Jules d'Anethan as Prime Minister.

Publications

 * Serials
 * Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 8.
 * Annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 27.
 * Annales du Cercle archéologique de Mons, vol. 10.
 * Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 25.
 * Archives médicales belges, second series, vol. 14.
 * Le Bibliophile belge, vol. 6.
 * Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, third series, vol. 5.
 * Bulletin de la Commission royale d'Histoire, third series, vol. 12.
 * Bulletins d'arboriculture, de floriculture et de culture potagère
 * Revue de Belgique, vol. 3.
 * Revue de la numismatique belge, fifth series, vol. 3.


 * Official publications
 * Code des contributions directes, douanes et accises de la Belgique, en vigueur au 1er janvier 1871
 * Moniteur belge: journal officiel
 * Rapport triennal sur la situation de l'instruction primaire en Belgique
 * Rapport triennal sur l'état de l'enseignement moyen en Belgique


 * Other
 * Léon d'Andrimont, Des institutions et des associations ouvrières de la Belgique
 * Émile de Borchgrave, Essai historique sur les colonies belges qui s'établirent en Hongrie et en Transylvanie pendant les XIe, XIIe et XIIIe siècles (Brussels)
 * Jean-Baptist David, Manuel de l'histoire de Belgique
 * Edouard Dupont, Les temps antéhistoriques en Belgique
 * J.S.G. Nypels, Pasinomie. Collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et régelements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique
 * Adolphe Quetelet, Histoire des sciences mathématiques et physiques chez les Belges
 * Eugène Somerhausen, Code politique de la Belgique
 * Edward Van Even, Mengelingen voor de geschiedenis van Braband

Births

 * 10 January – Emiel van Heurck, folklorist (died 1931)
 * 8 February – Médard Tytgat, illustrator (died 1948)
 * 14 May – Louis de Brouchoven de Bergeyck, politician (died 1938)
 * 26 May – Camille Huysmans, politician (died 1968)
 * 29 May – Pieter Franciscus Dierckx, painter (died 1950)
 * 8 June – Aloys Van de Vyvere, politician (died 1961)
 * 12 June – Lu Zhengxiang (in Shanghai), abbot (died 1949)
 * 9 July – Auguste-Léopold Huys, missionary (died 1938)
 * 11 July – Armand Huyghé, soldier (died 1944)
 * 23 July – Ovide Decroly, psychologist (died 1932)
 * 30 September – Adolphe Stoclet, art collector (died 1949)
 * 5 October – Karl Hanquet, historian (died 1928)
 * 30 November – Emile de Cartier de Marchienne, diplomat (died 1946)
 * 29 December – Emmanuel Foulon, Olympic archer (died 1945)

Deaths

 * 8 January – Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans (born 1825), priest and botanist
 * 18 January – Princess Joséphine Marie of Belgium (born 1870)
 * 2 February – Jan Frans Loos (born 1799), politician
 * 10 February – Étienne Constantin de Gerlache (born 1785), first Prime Minister of Belgium
 * 26 March – François-Joseph Fétis (born 1784), musicologist
 * 18 May – Constance Trotti (born 1800), hostess and patron of the arts
 * October – Théodore Fourmois (born 1814), artist