1869 in Belgium
# 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 $opens.^{:689}$

### February

* 20 February – Belgian senate passes a law prohibiting any French company from purchasing Belgian $railways.^{:860}$

### April

* 12 April – Metalworkers' strike at Cockerill in Seraing violently $repressed^{:688}$ (inspiring Karl Marx to write The Belgian Massacres).
* 25 April – Protocol signed to settle railway disputes between France and $Belgium.^{:869}$

### May

* 31 May – Horse-drawn buses introduced in $Brussels.^{:689}$

### September

* 8 September – Belgian railways introduce cheap workers' season $tickets.^{:689}$

## 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 $1859).^{:857}$
* 4 February – Johan Michiel Dautzenberg (born 1808), poet and educationalist.
* 26 August – Henri Leys (born 1815), $painter.^{:883}$
* 11 October – François-Joseph Navez (born 1787), $painter.^{:690}$
* 3 November – Cornelis Broeckx (born 1807), physician and bibliophile
