1874 in Belgium

Events in the year 1874 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold II
 * Head of government: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 21 August); Jules Malou (from 21 August)

Events

 * 20 January – Royal decree providing for subsidies to the dramatic arts.
 * 19 March – Extradition treaty with the United States of America.
 * 25 May – Provincial elections
 * 1 June – Service starts on Brussels–Charleroi railway line. Nivelles railway station inaugurated.
 * 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1874
 * 21 August – Prime Minister Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt dies in office; succeeded by Jules Malou
 * 2 September – Convention with The Netherlands for improvements to the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal signed in Brussels.
 * 10 September – Postal convention with Peru signed in Brussels.
 * 24 December – Extradition treaty with the German Empire, replacing earlier treaties with individual German states.

Publications

 * Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique. 1874. (Brussels).


 * Émile de Laveleye, De la Proprieté et de ses Formes Primitives
 * Eugène Van Bemmel, Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe & Cie., 1874)

Art and architecture

 * Paintings
 * Jean-François Portaels, Juive de Tanger

Births

 * 13 January – Jozef-Ernest van Roey, archbishop (died 1961)
 * 26 February – Gaston-Antoine Rasneur, bishop (died 1939)
 * 19 April – Firmin Baes, painter (died 1943)

Deaths

 * 17 February – Adolphe Quetelet (born 1796), mathematician
 * 23 May – Sylvain Van de Weyer (born 1802), politician
 * 4 July – Hippolyte Boulenger (born 1837), painter
 * 21 August – Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (born 1794)
 * 6 December –  Gustaf Wappers (born 1803), painter