Events in the year 1869 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold II Head of government: Walthère Frère-Orban
Events Epidemic of typhoid fever in Brussels. Brussels-South railway station opens.Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
February 20 February – Belgian senate passes a law prohibiting any French company from purchasing Belgian railways.Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871).
April 12 April – Metalworkers' strike at Cockerill in Seraing violently repressed (inspiring Karl Marx to write The Belgian Massacres). 25 April – Protocol signed to settle railway disputes between France and Belgium.
May 31 May – Horse-drawn omnibuses introduced in Brussels.
September 8 September – Belgian railways introduce cheap workers' season tickets.
Publications Periodicals Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot) Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 6 Collection de précis historiques, vol. 18, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.On Google Books
Studies and reports Édouard van den Corput, Origine et cause de l'epidémie de fièvre typhoide qui a règné à Bruxelles en 1869 (Brussels). Jean-Auguste Jourdain, Dictionnaire encyclopédique de géographie historique du royaume en Belgiquevol. 1, vol. 2
Literature Maria Doolaeghe Najaarsvruchten
Births 5 February – Leo Goemans, dialectologist (died 1955) 5 April – Isabelle Errera, art historian (died 1929) 3 June – Prince Baudouin of Belgium (died 1891)
Deaths
22 January – Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne (born 1859). 4 February – Johan Michiel Dautzenberg (born 1808), poet and educationalist. 17 August – Alexandre Rodenbach (born 1786), blind politician 26 August – Henri Leys (born 1815), painter. 11 October – François-Joseph Navez (born 1787), painter. 3 November – Cornelis Broeckx (born 1807), physician and bibliophile
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