1875 in Belgium
# 1875 in Belgium

Events in the year 1875 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

    Monarch: Leopold II
    Head of government: Jules Malou

## Events

* Delhaize brothers go into retail business.
* 4 February – Princess Louise of Belgium marries Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

## Publications

### Periodicals

* Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)
* Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez).
* Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère begins publication

### Official publications

* Le Moniteur Belge.

### Reference works

* Eugène Van Bemmel, Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale, vol. 3 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe & Cie., 1875)

### Books

* Hyacinthe De Bruyn, L'art belge au Salon de Bruxelles, 1875.

## Art and architecture

### Paintings

* Henri de Braekeleer, The Man in the Chair

## Births

* 12 January – Charles de Hemricourt de Grunne (died 1937)
* 22 January – Blanche Rousseau, writer (died 1949)
* 8 March – Maurice Hemelsoet, Olympic rower (died 1943)
* 8 April – Albert I of Belgium (died 1934)
* 29 June – Adrienne Barbanson, aristocrat (died 1944)
* 31 July – Lucie Dejardin, politician (died 1945)
* 21 August – Maurice Lippens, politician (died 1956)
* 22 September – Ferdinand Perier, missionary (died 1968)
* 1 October – Eugeen Van Mieghem, painter (died 1930)
* 11 October – Émile Fairon, archivist (died 1945)
* 12 October – Émile Merlin, astronomer (died 1938)
* 26 November – Princess Marie of Croÿ (died 1968)
* 8 December – Jenny Montigny, painter (died 1937)
* 31 December – Jeanne de Vietinghoff, writer (died 1926)

## Deaths

* 15 January – Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy (born 1783), geologist
* 24 January – Jean-Joseph Raikem (born 1787), politician
* 2 February – Luigi Agnesi (born 1833), singer and composer
* 30 March – Marie Pleyel (born 1811), pianist
* 4 May – Rosalie Loveling (born 1834), author
* 10 May – Michel Van Cuyck (born 1797), artist
* 22 August – Charles Venneman (born 1802), painter
* 11 November – Ernest Louis de Gonzague Vandenpeereboom (born 1807), industrialist and politician
* 12 November – Paul Lauters (born 1806), artist
