1878 in Belgium
# 1878 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1878 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

## Incumbents

* Monarch: Leopold II
* Prime Minister: Jules Malou (to 19 June); Walthère Frère-Orban (from 19 June)

## Events

* May to November – Belgium participates in the Paris Universal Exhibition.
* 27 May – Provincial elections
* 11-18 June – Partial legislative elections of 1878 (first with voting booths to ensure a secret ballot)
* 19 June – Walthère Frère-Orban replaces Jules Malou as Prime Minister
* 22-25 August – Twenty-fifth wedding anniversary celebrations of King Leopold II and Queen Marie-Henriette, including a parade of 23,000 school children on 23 August.
* 13 November – Jules Guillery succeeds as Charles Rogier as Speaker of the Chamber of Representatives

## Publications

### Periodicals

* Almanach de Poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, H. Manceaux)
* Annuaire de l'Observatoire royal de Bruxelles, 46 (Brussels, F. Hayez)
* Annuaire du Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles, 2 (Brussels, Librairie Européenne C. Muquardt)
* Bulletin de la Société belge de géographie, 2 (Brussels, Secrétariat de la Société Belge de Géographie)
* Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 47 (Brussels, M. Hayez).
* Le Moniteur Belge.
* Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère (Ghent, Bureaux de la Revue)
* Revue du notariat belge, 4 (Brussels, Bureau de la Revue)

### Books

* Hendrik Conscience, De Schat van Felix Roobeek
* Henri Guillaume, Histoire de l'infanterie wallonne sous la maison d'Espagne, 1500–1800 (Brussels, Académie Royale)

## Art and architecture

### Buildings

* Great Synagogue of Brussels completed

### Paintings

* Félicien Rops, Pornocrates

## Births

* 18 January – Henri Baels, politician (died 1951)
* 19 February – Henri Carton de Tournai, politician (died 1969)
* 5 March – Gaston Salmon, fencer (died 1917)
* 10 March – Karel van de Woestijne, author (died 1929)
* 16 March – Émile Cammaerts, author (died 1953)
* 29 March – Jules Pire, resistance leader (died 1953)
* 14 April – August Borms, quisling (died 1946)
* 23 June – Gustave Strauven, architect (died 1919)
* 1 July – Joseph Maréchal, Jesuit (died 1944)
* 5 July – Jean de Bosschère, writer and painter (died 1953)
* 6 July – Charles Terlinden, historian (died 1972)
* 15 July – Hendrik De Vocht, scholar (died 1962)
* 13 September – Oscar Joliet, bishop (died 1969)
* 20 November – Joseph-Marie Canivez, Trappist (died 1952)

## Deaths

* 18 January – Frans de Cort (born 1834), writer
* 9 July – Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier (born 1797), botanist and politician
* 7 August – Joseph Gustave Ernest Allard (born 1840), politician
* 16 November – Charles Vilain XIIII (born 1803), politician
