1874 in Belgium
# 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
