1875 in Belgium

Events in the year 1875 in Belgium. == Incumbents == Monarch: Leopold II Head of government: Jules Malou == Events == Delhaize brothers go into retail business. 4 February – Princess Louise of Belgium marries Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha == Publications == Periodicals Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot) Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez). Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère begins publication Official publications Le Moniteur Belge. Reference works Eugène Van Bemmel, Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale, vol. 3 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe & Cie., 1875) Books Hyacinthe De Bruyn, L'art belge au Salon de Bruxelles, 1875. == Art and architecture == Paintings Henri de Braekeleer, The Man in the Chair == Births == 12 January – Charles de Hemricourt de Grunne (died 1937) 22 January – Blanche Rousseau, writer (died 1949) 8 March – Maurice Hemelsoet, Olympic rower (died 1943) 8 April – Albert I of Belgium (died 1934) 29 June – Adrienne Barbanson, aristocrat (died 1944) 31 July – Lucie Dejardin, politician (died 1945) 21 August – Maurice Lippens, politician (died 1956) 22 September – Ferdinand Perier, missionary (died 1968) 1 October – Eugeen Van Mieghem, painter (died 1930) 11 October – Émile Fairon, archivist (died 1945) 12 October – Émile Merlin, astronomer (died 1938) 26 November – Princess Marie of Croÿ (died 1968) 8 December – Jenny Montigny, painter (died 1937) 31 December – Jeanne de Vietinghoff, writer (died 1926) == Deaths == 15 January – Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy (born 1783), geologist 24 January – Jean-Joseph Raikem (born 1787), politician 2 February – Luigi Agnesi (born 1833), singer and composer 30 March – Marie Pleyel (born 1811), pianist 4 May – Rosalie Loveling (born 1834), author 10 May – Michel Van Cuyck (born 1797), artist 22 August – Charles Venneman (born 1802), painter 11 November – Ernest Louis de Gonzague Vandenpeereboom (born 1807), industrialist and politician 12 November – Paul Lauters (born 1806), artist == References ==