1872 in Belgium

Incumbents

Events

• 24 May – Convention with The Netherlands for building water defences on the Zwin signed in Bruges.
• 11 June – Partial legislative elections of 1872
• 13 June – Postal convention with the Russian Empire signed in St Petersburg.
• 11 July – Convention with the German Empire regarding the Belgian State Railways taking over the railway lines between Spa and Gouvy and between Pepinster and Spa signed in Berlin.
• 31 July – Extradition treaty with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland signed in Brussels.
• 23 October – Extradition treaty with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg signed in The Hague.
• 26 October – Convention with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for rail connections between Belgium and Luxembourg.
• 15 November – Maredsous Abbey founded
• 10 December – Henri Guillaume resigns as Minister of War after failing to get the government to adopt a policy of personal military service.
• 25 December – Extradition treaty with the Russian Empire comes into effect.

  Publications

• Émile de Laveleye, Essai sur les Formes de Gouvernement dans les Sociétés Modernes
• P. Rombouts and T. van Lerius, De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde

  Births

• 23 February – Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne
• 30 May – Paul-Émile Janson, politician
• 8 June – Jan Frans De Boever, painter
• 9 July – Jacques Mesnil, art writer
• 30 July – Princess Clémentine of Belgium
• 19 August – Théophile de Donder, physicist
• 23 September – Marie Depage, nurse
• 22 November – Cécile Thévenet, opera singer
• 8 December – Jules Buyssens, landscape architect
• 28 December – Amandina of Schakkebroek, missionary martyr

  Deaths

• 5 January – G. Henry Wouters, Church historian
• 8 May – Alexandre Bivort, pomologist
• 10 May – Félix Victor Goethals, librarian
• 1 June – Edouard Terwecoren, Jesuit author
• 5 June – Charles-Joseph Voisin, art historian
• 23 October – Victor Coremans, archivist