1863 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1863 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- 12 May – Dutch government agrees to perpetual abolition of tolls on the Scheldt river in return for a payment of 17 million guilders[1]
- 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1863
- 16 July – Multilateral treaty for the redemption of the Scheldt tolls signed in Brussels[2]
- 1 August – Clipper Marnix van Sinte-Aldegonde the first ship to sail toll-free from Antwerp to the mouth of the Scheldt[3]
- 11 August – State visit of Queen Victoria to Belgium.[4]
- 18-22 August – First Catholic Congress in Mechelen
- Guild of Saint Thomas and Saint Luke for the study and promotion of Christian art founded
- 26 December – Solvay chemical company founded.[5]
Publications
- Periodicals
- Annuaire de l'Observatoire Royal de Bruxelles, vol. 31[6]
- La Belgique horticole, edited by Édouard Morren[7]
- Bulletin du Bibliophile Belge, vol. 19, edited by A. Scheler (Brussels, F. Heussner)[8]
- Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, second series, vol. 15[9]
- Revue belge et étrangère, 15[10]
- Revue Trimestrielle, vol. 38[11]
- Le Timbre-Poste begins publication
- Studies and reports
- Émile de Laveleye, Essai sur l'économie rurale de la Belgique[12]
- Historical editions
- Louis Galesloot, Procès de François Anneessens: doyen du corps des métiers de Bruxelles, vol. 2 (Brussels and The Hague)[13]
- Jehan le Bel, Les vrayes chroniques, edited by Lambert Polain, vol. 1[14]
Births
- 10 January – Félix Wielemans, soldier (died 1917)
- 3 February – Charles Magnette, politician (died 1937)
- 8 March – Théophile Bovy, journalist (died 1937)
- 3 April – Henry van de Velde, painter (died 1957)
- 21 April – Paul Lebrun, composer (died 1920)
- 25 June – Émile Francqui, philanthropist (died 1935)
- 26 June
- Paul Pelseneer, biologist (died 1945)
- Henri Quersin, marksman (died 1944)
- 21 August – Jules Destrée, politician (died 1936)
- 1 September – Herman Baltia, soldier (died 1938)
- 10 December – Maurice Hennequin, playwright (died 1926)
- 14 November – Leo Baekeland, chemist (died 1944)
Deaths
- 8 February – Martin Martens (born 1797), botanist and chemist
- 14 May – Emmanuel Noterman (born 1808), painter
- 18 July – Arnold Timothée de Lasaulx (born 1774), politician
- 19 July – André-Napoléon Fontainas (born 1807), politician
- 31 October – Augustus Van Dievoet (born 1803), judge
References
- ^ Olivier Keun (11 March 2013). "Afkoop Scheldetol 150 jaar". G/Geschiedenis (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^ Treaty between Austria, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Hanover, Italy, Oldenburg, Peru, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway, Turkey and the Hanse Towns (Bremen, Hamburg and Lubeck), and Belgium, for the Redemption of the Scheldt Tolls, signed at Brussels, 16 July 1863. Oxford Historical Treaties online Archived 9 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Olivier Keun (11 March 2013). "Afkoop Scheldetol 150 jaar". G/Geschiedenis (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
- ^ William Henry Overall, The dictionary of chronology, or historical and statistical register (London, 1870), p. 77.
- ^ Nicolas Coupain, "The Pioneering Years (1863-1914)", in Kenneth Bertrams et al., Solvay: History of a Multinational Family Firm (Cambridge University Press, 2013), p. 22.
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- ^ "Revue belge et étrangère". 1863.
- ^ April issue on Google Books
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