1864 in Belgium

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{{Year in Belgium|1864}}

Events in the year 1864 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Events

;February

;April

  • Charles Baudelaire moves to Brussels.{{Cite news|title=Pourquoi Baudelaire détestait-il les Belges?|date=7 Sep 2017|newspaper=La Libre|url=https://www.lalibre.be/culture/arts/pourquoi-baudelaire-detestait-il-les-belges-59b0ed4acd703b659231d656}}

;May

;July

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

;August

;September

  • Exhibition of medieval, Renaissance and contemporary religious art in Mechelen.William Henry James Weale (ed.), Catalogue des objets d'art religieux du Moyen-Age, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes exposés à l'Hôtel Liedekerke à Malines, septembre 1864 (2nd ed., Brussels, Charles Lelong, 1864). [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_BohaAAAAcAAJ On Internet Archive].

;October

Sports

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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=UnE3AAAAMAAJ Vol. 1] on Google Books.
  • Antwerpsch Archievenblad begins publication.
  • Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, Volume 17 (Brussels, M. Hayez).[https://books.google.com/books?id=LWoBuOTzPO8C On Google Books]
  • Collection de précis historiques, vol. 13, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[https://books.google.com/books?id=cQpBAAAAcAAJ On Google Books]

;Pamphlets

  • Réflexions sur les conséquences probables de l'expédition mexicaine (Brussels).[https://books.google.com/books?id=ss5t3ySQpeMC On Google Books]

;Literary works

  • Auguste Louwage, Les trois soeurs Flamandes. Gand, Bruges, Anvers: trilogie nationale (Ghent, F. & E. Gyselynck).[https://books.google.com/books?id=rONCAAAAcAAJ On Google Books]

;Scholarly editions

Births

Deaths

  • 19 February – Ferdinand Lecouvet (born 1827), bibliographer.Ferdinand Loise, "Lecouvet (Ferdinand-François-Joseph)", in Biographie Nationale de Belgique, [http://www.academieroyale.be/Academie/documents/FichierPDFBiographieNationaleTome2052.pdf Volume 11] (Brussels, 1891), 596-599F.V.H., Notice biographique sur Monsieur F.-F.-J. Lecouvet (Ghent, L. Hebbelynck, 1864) [https://books.google.com/books?id=jcxbAAAAQAAJ On Google Books].
  • 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

References

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