1860 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1860 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Events

- 28 May – Provincial elections
 - 9 July – Belgian consulate in Damascus destroyed during anti-Christian pogroms.[1]
 - 18 July – Duties charged on goods brought from the countryside into towns abolished.[2]
 - 7 October – One of the monks sets fire to the church and one of the dormitories at Scourmont Priory.[3]
 - 16 November – Execution of Jan Coucke and Pieter Goethals.
 
Publications
- Periodicals
 
- Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 8.[4][5]
 - Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 26.[6]
 - Annuaire militaire officiel, 14.[7]
 - La Belgique Horticole, 10.[8]
 - La Belgique[9]
 - Bulletin du bibliophile belge, 16[10]
 - Collection de précis historiques, 9, edited by Edouard Terwecoren[11]
 
- Monographs and reports
 
- La Belgique en 1860 (Brussels, Philippe Hen).[12]
 - Manifestation nationale du peuple belge en 1860 (Brussels, E. Guyot, and Haarlem, J. J. Weeveringh).[13]
 - Recueil des pièces imprimées par ordre de la Chambre des Représentants, vol. 1.[14]
 - Louis Hymans, Histoire populaire de la Belgique (Brussels and Leipzig, Auguste Schnée)[15]
 - F. Prové, De la question monétaire en Belgique (Brussels, J.-B. Tarride).[16]
 
- Guidebooks
 
- A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland (London, John Murray).[17]
 
- Literature
 
- Joseph Octave Delepierre, A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature and its Celebrated Authors from the Twelfth Century to the Present Time (London, John Murray).[18]
 - Jules de Saint-Genois, Profils et portraits
 
Births
- 12 January – Charles Lemonnier, politician (died 1930)
 - 24 February – Max Waller, writer (died 1889)
 - 11 March – Rodolphe Wytsman, painter (died 1927)
 - 2 April – Paul Costermans, colonial administrator (died 1905)
 - 13 April – James Ensor, painter (died 1949)
 - 2 May – Heva Coomans, painter (died 1939)
 - 23 June – Albert Giraud, poet (died 1929)
 - 28 June – Aloïs Biebuyck, officer (died 1944)
 - 12 August – Ernest Baert, explorer (died 1894)
 - 26 August – Luis Siret, archaeologist (died 1934)
 - 4 December – Charles de Broqueville, politician (died 1940)
 - 15 December – Alphonse Michaux, engraver (died 1928)
 - 30 December – Leon Mazy, muralist (died 1938)
 
Deaths
- 1 April – Joseph Guislain (born 1797), physician
 - 20 April – Charles de Brouckère (born 1796), politician
 - 27 April – John E. Blox (born 1810), Jesuit
 - 11 September – Jean-Baptiste Masui (born 1798), civil engineer
 - 27 September – Charles-Joseph, 4th Duke d'Ursel (born 1777), politician
 - 10 October – Jules Victor Génisson (born 1805), painter
 - 13 October – Egide Linnig (born 1821), artist
 - 22 October – Pieter Vanderghinste (born 1789), composer
 
References
- ^ Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 577.
 - ^ "Loi du 18 juillet 1860 portant abolition des octrois communaux". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 18 July 1860.
 - ^ "Incendie du couvent des Trappistes – Le frère Robyn accusé", La Belgique judiciaire, vol. 19, no. 15 (21 February 1861), 233-235.[1]
 - ^ Annales de pomologie on Wikisource (French).
 - ^ Annales de pomologie on Google Books.
 - ^ Annuaire de l'Académie Royale. Vol. 26.
 - ^ Annuaire militaire, vol. 14 on Google Books.
 - ^ La Belgique Horticole, vol. 10 on Google Books.
 - ^ La Belgique, vol. 9, vol. 10 on Google Books.
 - ^ Bulletin du bibliophile belge, vol. 16 on Google Books.
 - ^ Collection de précis historiques, vol. 9 on Google Books.
 - ^ La Belgique en 1860 on Google Books.
 - ^ Manifestation nationale on Google Books.
 - ^ Recueil des pièces on Google Books.
 - ^ Histoire populaire on Google Books.
 - ^ De la question monétaire on Google Books.
 - ^ Handbook for Travellers on Google Books.
 - ^ A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature online at the Austrian National Library.
 
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