1882 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold II
• Prime Minister:Walthère Frère-Orban

  Events

• Louis Dollo reconstructs the iguanodons found in Bernissart.
• 7 January – Léon and Armand Peltzer murder Guillaume Bernays at 159 Rue de la Loi, Brussels.
• 6 May – North Sea Fisheries Convention signed, to come into effect in 1884.
• 31 July – Désiré-Joseph Mercier appointed to the new chair in Thomist philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain.
• 27 November – The Peltzer Case comes to trial before the Brussels Court of assizes.
• December – Jean-Charles Houzeau leads a scientific expedition to San Antonio, Texas, to observe a transit of Venus in order to determine the solar parallax.

  Publications

• Bulletins de l'Acadie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 3rd series, vol. 4

• Congrès international de l'enseignement, Bruxelles, 1880: Discussions

  Art and architecture

• Henri Rieck, Passage du Nord

  Births

• 10 January – Eugène Joseph Delporte, astronomer
• 5 February – Georges Dandoy, missionary
• 1 April – Paul Anspach, fencer
• 16 June – Josef Christiaens, driver and aviator
• 10 July – Henri Anspach, fencer
• 15 July – Albert Hustin, doctor
• 2 September – Nico Gunzburg, criminologist
• 19 October – Norbert Wallez, newspaper editor

  Deaths

• 7 February – Édouard De Bièfve, painter
• 9 July – Louis-Charles Verwee, painter
• 25 September – Désiré van Monckhoven, photographer
• 17 November – Henri Julien Allard, politician