1874 in Belgium

Incumbents

Events

• 20 January – Royal decree providing for subsidies to the dramatic arts.
• 19 March – Extradition treaty with the United States of America.
• 1 June – Service starts on Brussels–Charleroi railway line. Nivelles railway station inaugurated.
• 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1874
• 21 August – Prime Minister Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt dies in office; succeeded by Jules Malou
• 2 September – Convention with The Netherlands for improvements to the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal signed in Brussels.
• 10 September – Postal convention with Peru signed in Brussels.
• 24 December – Extradition treaty with the German Empire, replacing earlier treaties with individual German states.

  Publications

• Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique. 1874..
• Émile de Laveleye, De la Proprieté et de ses Formes Primitives
• Eugène Van Bemmel, Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale, vol. 2

  Art and architecture

• Jean-François Portaels, Juive de Tanger

  Births

• 13 January – Jozef-Ernest van Roey, archbishop
• 19 April – Firmin Baes, painter

  Deaths

• 17 February – Adolphe Quetelet, mathematician
• 23 May – Sylvain Van de Weyer, politician
• 4 July – Hippolyte Boulenger, painter
• 21 August – Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt
• 6 December –  Gustaf Wappers, painter