1876 in Belgium

Events in the year 1876 in Belgium.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Leopold II
 * Head of government: Jules Malou

Events

 * 20 April – Leopold I's mortal remains transferred to the crypt of the Church of Our Lady of Laeken
 * 22 May – Provincial elections
 * 13 June – Partial legislative election
 * 12 September – Brussels Geographic Conference opens, leading to the foundation of the International African Association
 * 27 September – Opening of the International Congress of Hygiene and Life-Saving Equipment in Brussels, as part of the International Exhibition of Hygiene.

Publications

 * Periodicals
 * Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 45 (Brussels, F. Hayez).
 * Revue de Belgique, 23.
 * Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère, 2.


 * Other
 * Léon d'Andrimont, La coopération ouvrière en Belgique.

Art and architecture

 * Buildings
 * Oostakker Basilica completed

Births

 * 1 March
 * Henri de Baillet-Latour, IOC president (died 1942)
 * Maurice Emile Marie Goetghebuer, entomologist (died 1962)
 * 7 April – Jules Degeetere, cyclist (died 1957)
 * 26 June – Armand Renier, geologist (died 1951)
 * 16 July – Victor van Strydonck de Burkel, general (died 1961)
 * 2 August – Julien Lootens, cyclist (died 1942)
 * 19 August – Oscar de Somville, Olympic rower (died 1938)
 * 8 September – Thomas Braun, poet (died 1961)
 * 12 September – Flor Alpaerts, composer (died 1954)
 * 26 September – Georges Lebacq, painter (died 1950)
 * 18 October – Charles van den Bussche, Olympic sailor (died 1958)
 * 17 November – Joseph Van De Meulebroeck, politician (died 1958)
 * 16 December – Rodolphe Seeldrayers, FIFA president (died 1955)

Deaths

 * 7 January – Marie Thérèse Haze (born 1782), religious foundress
 * 16 April – Auguste de Peellaert (born 1793), soldier and artist
 * 17 April – Adolphe Pierre Sunaert (born 1825), artist and teacher
 * 9 May – Louis van Houtte (born 1810), horticulturalist
 * 23 May – Victor de Buck (born 1817), Jesuit
 * 23 August – Giovanni Inchindi (born 1798), opera singer
 * 29 October – Jacques Gregoir (born 1817), composer