Events in the year 1871 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold II Head of government: Jules d'Anethan (to 7 December); Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (from 7 December)
Events January 1 January – Belgium repeals import duty on salt.Thomas Ward, "Salt and its export from the ports of the Mersey", Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, 30 (1876), p. 202.
February 21 February – Regular railway services between France and Belgium resumed.Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 985.
March 21 March – Victor Hugo moves to Brussels.
June 1 June – Victor Hugo expelled from Belgium for endangering the public peace after publishing a letter in L'Indépendance Belge of 26 May criticising the Belgian government's attitude to Communard refugees.
November 30 November – Work on Covering of the Senne formally completed.
December 7 December – Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt replaces Jules d'Anethan as Prime Minister.
Art and architecture
Buildings Aertrycke Castle, Torhout
Paintings Hippolyte Boulenger, Storm over the Scheldt Joseph Maswiens, The Old Fish Market in Leuven Alfred Stevens, The Psyché (My Studio) ()
Publications Serials Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 8. Annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 27. Annales du Cercle archéologique de Mons, vol. 10. Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 25. Archives médicales belges, second series, vol. 14. Le Bibliophile belge, vol. 6. Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, third series, vol. 5. Bulletin de la Commission royale d'Histoire, third series, vol. 12. Bulletins d'arboriculture, de floriculture et de culture potagère Gilde de Saint-Thomas et de Saint-Luc, Bulletin des séances, 1863-1869 (Bruges, Tournai and Leuven) Revue de Belgique, vol. 3. and Revue de la numismatique belge, fifth series, vol. 3.
Official publications Code des contributions directes, douanes et accises de la Belgique, en vigueur au 1er janvier 1871 Moniteur belge: journal officiel Rapport triennal sur la situation de l'instruction primaire en Belgique Rapport triennal sur l'état de l'enseignement moyen en Belgique
Other Léon d'Andrimont, Des institutions et des associations ouvrières de la Belgique Émile de Borchgrave, Essai historique sur les colonies belges qui s'établirent en Hongrie et en Transylvanie pendant les XIe, XIIe et XIIIe siècles (Brussels) Jean-Baptist David, Manuel de l'histoire de Belgique Edouard Dupont, Les temps antéhistoriques en Belgique (Brussels, Mucquardt) J.S.G. Nypels, Pasinomie. Collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et régelements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique Adolphe Quetelet, Histoire des sciences mathématiques et physiques chez les Belges Eugène Somerhausen, Code politique de la Belgique Edward Van Even, Mengelingen voor de geschiedenis van Braband
Births 10 January – Emiel van Heurck, folklorist (died 1931) 8 February – Médard Tytgat, illustrator (died 1948) 14 May – Louis de Brouchoven de Bergeyck, politician (died 1938) 26 May – Camille Huysmans, politician (died 1968) 29 May – Pieter Franciscus Dierckx, painter (died 1950) 1 June – Charles Théodore Bernier, engraver (died 1950) 8 June – Aloys Van de Vyvere, politician (died 1961) 12 June – Lu Zhengxiang (in Shanghai), abbot (died 1949) 9 July – Auguste-Léopold Huys, missionary (died 1938) 11 July – Armand Huyghé, soldier (died 1944) 23 July – Ovide Decroly, psychologist (died 1932) 30 September – Adolphe Stoclet, art collector (died 1949) 5 October – Karl Hanquet, historian (died 1928) 30 November – Emile de Cartier de Marchienne, diplomat (died 1946) 29 December – Emmanuel Foulon, Olympic archer (died 1945)
Deaths 8 January – Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans (born 1825), priest and botanist 18 January – Princess Joséphine Marie of Belgium (born 1870) 2 February – Jan Frans Loos (born 1799), politician 10 February – Étienne Constantin de Gerlache (born 1785), first Prime Minister of Belgium 26 February – Charles Niellon (born 1795), veteran 26 March – François-Joseph Fétis (born 1784), musicologist 18 May – Constance Trotti (born 1800), hostess and patron of the arts October – Théodore Fourmois (born 1814), artist
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