1860 in Belgium

:Monarchy of Belgium: Leopold I

:Head of government: Charles Rogier

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• 28 May – Provincial elections
• 9 July – Belgian consulate in Damascus destroyed during anti-Christian pogroms.Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 577.
• 18 July – Duties charged on goods brought from the countryside into towns abolished.{{Cite web|url=http://reflex.raadvst-consetat.be/reflex/index.reflex?docid=58275|title=Loi du 18 juillet 1860 portant abolition des octrois communaux|date=18 July 1860|website=refLex|publisher=Council of State (Belgium)}}
• 7 October – One of the monks sets fire to the church and one of the dormitories at Scourmont Priory."Incendie du couvent des Trappistes – Le frère Robyn accusé", La Belgique judiciaire, vol. 19, no. 15 (21 February 1861), 233-235.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ymwvAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA233]
• 16 November – Execution of Jan Coucke and Pieter Goethals.

;Periodicals

• Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 8.[https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Annales_de_pomologie_belge_et_étrangère/Huitième_année Annales de pomologie] on Wikisource (French).[https://books.google.com/books?id=7CEOAAAAQAAJ Annales de pomologie] on Google Books.
• Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 26.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EUI0AAAAMAAJ |title=Annuaire de l'Académie Royale |volume=26}}
• Annuaire militaire officiel, 14.[https://books.google.com/books?id=VM0_AAAAcAAJ Annuaire militaire, vol. 14] on Google Books.
• La Belgique Horticole, 10.[https://books.google.com/books?id=VPIXAAAAYAAJ La Belgique Horticole, vol. 10] on Google Books.
• La Belgique[https://books.google.com/books?id=xX43AAAAMAAJ La Belgique, vol. 9], [https://books.google.com/books?id=X383AAAAMAAJ vol. 10] on Google Books.
• Bulletin du bibliophile belge, 16[https://books.google.com/books?id=8gRJAAAAcAAJ Bulletin du bibliophile belge, vol. 16] on Google Books.
• Collection de précis historiques, 9, edited by Edouard Terwecoren[https://books.google.com/books?id=JwpBAAAAcAAJ Collection de précis historiques, vol. 9] on Google Books.

;Monographs and reports

• La Belgique en 1860 (Brussels, Philippe Hen).[https://books.google.com/books?id=AAdbAAAAcAAJ La Belgique en 1860] on Google Books.
• Manifestation nationale du peuple belge en 1860 (Brussels, E. Guyot, and Haarlem, J. J. Weeveringh).[https://books.google.com/books?id=h2VbAAAAQAAJ Manifestation nationale] on Google Books.
• Recueil des pièces imprimées par ordre de la Chambre des Représentants, vol. 1.[https://books.google.com/books?id=U0NDAAAAcAAJ Recueil des pièces] on Google Books.
• Louis Hymans, Histoire populaire de la Belgique (Brussels and Leipzig, Auguste Schnée)[https://books.google.com/books?id=LOlTAAAAcAAJ Histoire populaire] on Google Books.
• F. Prové, De la question monétaire en Belgique (Brussels, J.-B. Tarride).[https://books.google.com/books?id=995IAAAAcAAJ De la question monétaire] on Google Books.

;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).[https://books.google.com/books?id=jdQ_AAAAYAAJ Handbook for Travellers] on Google Books.

;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).[http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/1071C81B A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature] online at the Austrian National Library.
• Jules de Saint-Genois, Profils et portraits

• 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)

• 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

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