1868 in Belgium

Incumbents

Events

• 3 January – Walthère Frère-Orban replaces Charles Rogier as Prime Minister
• 28 January – Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps enthroned as Archbishop of Mechelen.

• 1 March – Société Libre des Beaux-Arts founded.
• 24 March – 20 killed when soldiers shoot on striking miners from the Epine mine in Dampremy.

• 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1868

• 6 August – 47 miners killed by a fire damp explosion in the Sainte Henriette mine near Jemappes.

• 7 September – Third international workers congress opens in Brussels.

• 23 October – Frederick Doulton, MP, brought to trial in Brussels on charges of fraud in public works, but acquitted of having broken any law.

  Publications

• Almanach royal officiel
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 17, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.
• Socialist daily newspaper De Werker launched in Antwerp.

• Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 2

• Charles Niellon, Histoire des événements militaires et des conspirations orangistes de la révolution en Belgique de 1830 à 1833

• Maria Doolaeghe, Winterbloemen

  Births

• 11 January – François Ruhlmann, conductor
• 5 February – Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer
• 23 February – Paul Bergmans, librarian
• 5 March – Prosper Poullet, politician
• 27 April – Herman Vander Linden, politician
• 23 August – Paul Otlet, bibliographer
• 28 November – Louis Franck, politician

  Deaths

• 17 April – Guillaume-Hippolyte van Volxem , politician
• 30 April – Charles Le Hon, politician
• 9 July – Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps, military inventor
• 21 July – Édouard Ducpétiaux, prison reformer