1864 in Belgium
# 1864 in Belgium

Events in the year 1864 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

    Monarch: Leopold I
    Head of government: Charles Rogier

## Events

* Belgian State Railways Type 1 taken into use

### February

* 4 February – Belgian Red Cross founded

### April

* Charles Baudelaire moves to Brussels.

### May

* 21 May – Father Damien ordained in Honolulu
* 23 May – Provincial elections
* 29 May – Princess Charlotte lands in Mexico to become Empress as consort of Maximilian I of Mexico

### July

* 11 July – Federation of Catholic Circles and Conservative Associations formed (later to become the more formalised Catholic Party)

### August

* 11 August – 1864 Belgian general election, won by Liberal Party
* 29 August – Catholic Congress in Mechelen opens (to 3 September)

### September

* Exhibition of medieval, Renaissance and contemporary religious art in Mechelen.

### October

* 16 October – Belgian Legion embark for Mexico to take part in the Second French intervention in Mexico

## Sports

* Royal Athletics Association Ghent founded

## Publications

### Periodicals

* Annales du bibliophile belge begins publication.
* Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique begins publication, edited by Mgr. De Ram.
* Antwerpsch Archievenblad begins publication.
* Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, Volume 17 (Brussels, M. Hayez).
* Collection de précis historiques, vol. 13, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.

### Pamphlets

* Réflexions sur les conséquences probables de l'expédition mexicaine (Brussels).

### Literary works

* Auguste Louwage, Les trois soeurs Flamandes. Gand, Bruges, Anvers: trilogie nationale (Ghent, F. & E. Gyselynck).

### Scholarly editions

* Pierre Joseph Le Boucq, Histoire des troubles advenues à Valenciennes à cause des hérésies, 1562-1579, edited by A.-P.-L. de Robaulx de Soumoy (Brussels, Ghent and Leipzig).

## Births

* 11 January – Henri Daco, painter (died 1932)
* 26 March – Louis Reckelbus, painter (died 1958)
* 21 May – Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (died 1945)
* 22 May – Josue Dupon, sculptor (died 1935)
* 10 October – Blanche Arral, soprano (died 1945)
* 22 October – Eugène Laermans, painter (died 1940)
* 2 November – Oscar Roels, composer (died 1938)
* 28 November – Léon van Hout, musician (died 1945)

## Deaths

* 19 February – Ferdinand Lecouvet (born 1827), bibliographer.
* 23 March – Jean-Baptiste Malou (born 1806), bishop
* 5 April – Louis Roelandt (born 1786), architect
* 27 May – Léandre Desmaisières (born 1794), politician
* 1 September – Jean Kickx (born 1803), botanist
* 2 October – Louis-Joseph Delebecque (born 1798), bishop of Ghent
