1874 in Belgium

:Monarch: Leopold II

:Head of government: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 21 August); Jules Malou (from 21 August)

• 20 January – Royal decree providing for subsidies to the dramatic arts.
• 19 March – Extradition treaty with the United States of America.
• 25 May – Provincial elections
• 1 June – Service starts on Brussels–Charleroi railway line. Nivelles railway station inaugurated.
• 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1874
• 21 August – Prime Minister Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt dies in office; succeeded by Jules Malou
• 2 September – Convention with The Netherlands for improvements to the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal signed in Brussels.{{Cite web|url=http://reflex.raadvst-consetat.be/reflex/index.reflex?page=traiverd&c=detail_get&d=detail&docid=7630|title=Convention entre la Belgique et les Pays-Bas pour l'amélioration du canal de Gand à Terneuzen, signée à Bruxelles le 2 septembre 1874|date=2 September 1874|website=refLex|publisher=Council of State (Belgium)}}
• 10 September – Postal convention with Peru signed in Brussels.{{Cite web|url=http://reflex.raadvst-consetat.be/reflex/index.reflex?page=traiverd&c=detail_get&d=detail&docid=7631|title=Convention postale entre la Belgique et le Perou, signée à Bruxelles le 10 septembre 1874|date=10 September 1874|website=refLex|publisher=Council of State (Belgium)}}
• 24 December – Extradition treaty with the German Empire, replacing earlier treaties with individual German states.{{Cite web|url=http://reflex.raadvst-consetat.be/reflex/index.reflex?page=traiverd&c=detail_get&d=detail&docid=6516|title=Convention d'extradition entre la Belgique et l'Allemagne, signée à Bruxelles le 24 décembre 1874|date=24 December 1874|website=refLex|publisher=Council of State (Belgium)}}

• Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique. 1874. (Brussels).{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WzxGAQAAMAAJ|title = Pasinomie: Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique|author1 = Belgium|year = 1874}}

• Émile de Laveleye, De la Proprieté et de ses Formes PrimitivesEnglish translation by G.R.L. Marriott, Primitive Property (London, 1878), [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924032613014#page/n5/mode/2up on Internet Archive]
• Eugène Van Bemmel, Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe & Cie., 1874)[https://books.google.com/books?id=_pBgAAAAcAAJ On Google Books]

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;Paintings

• Jean-François Portaels, Juive de Tanger

• 13 January – Jozef-Ernest van Roey, archbishop (died 1961)
• 26 February – Gaston-Antoine Rasneur, bishop (died 1939)
• 19 April – Firmin Baes, painter (died 1943)

• 17 February – Adolphe Quetelet (born 1796), mathematician
• 23 May – Sylvain Van de Weyer (born 1802), politician
• 4 July – Hippolyte Boulenger (born 1837), painter
• 21 August – Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (born 1794)
• 6 December –  Gustaf Wappers (born 1803), painter

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