1869 in Belgium

none 1869 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).689 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).860 April 12 April – Metalworkers' strike at Cockerill in Seraing violently repressedKroniek 688 (inspiring Karl Marx to write The Belgian Massacres). 25 April – Protocol signed to settle railway disputes between France and Belgium.Irving 869 May 31 May – Horse-drawn omnibuses introduced in Brussels.Kroniek 689 September 8 September – Belgian railways introduce cheap workers' season tickets.Kroniek 689 Publications Periodicals Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)https://books.google.com/books?id=AqFCAAAAcAAJ Almanach royal officiel de Belgique 1869 Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 6https://books.google.com/books?id=NKdCAAAAcAAJ Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique 1864 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 thumb|The death of Prince Leopold 22 January – Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne (born 1859).Irving 857 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.Irving 883 11 October – François-Joseph Navez (born 1787), painter.Kroniek 690 3 November – Cornelis Broeckx (born 1807), physician and bibliophile References 1869 Belgium Category:Years of the 19th century in Belgium Category:1860s in Belgium Belgium