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See also:	Other events of 1861; List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1861 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarchy of Belgium: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

January

1 January – Franco-Belgian Tirailleurs renamed Papal Zouaves.^[1]

February

7 February – François Robyn (Br Hugo in religion) sentenced to death at the Court of assizes in Mons for arson at Scourmont Priory the previous October.^[2]

May

1 May – Commercial treaty with France modelled on the Anglo-French commercial treaty of 1860.^[3]
19 May – Association "Vlamingen Vooruit!" organises mass meeting in Brussels^[4]
27 May – Commercial treaty with France ratified.

June

1 June – Commercial treaty with France comes into effect.
11 June – Partial legislative elections of 1861

July

20 July – Signing of Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation between Belgium and Mexico negotiated by Auguste t'Kint.^[5]

October

1 October – Commercial treaty between Britain, France and Belgium comes into effect.^[6]
10 October – Commercial treaty with the Ottoman Empire signed at Constantinople by Gaston Errembault de Dudzeele for Belgium and by Esad Safvet and Mohammed Djemil for the Sublime Porte.^[7]

Publications

Periodicals

Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 27 ^[8]
La Belgique Horticole, vol. 11.^[9]
Bulletin de la Fédération des Sociétés d'Horticulture^[10]
Bulletin Usuel des Lois et Arrêtés, 1539–1813 (Brussels)^[11]
Collection de précis historiques, vol. 10, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.^[12]
La Tribune du peuple (Brussels) begins publication
Revue belge et étrangère, 12^[13]
Het Vlaemsch Verbond begins publication^[4]

Reports and pamphlets

Bulletin administratif du Ministère de l'Intérieur, series 1 (1830–1847), vol. 1 (1830-1831).^[14]
Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de Belgique, vol. 48 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge)^[15]^[16]
Charles Le Hardy de Beaulieu, L'Espagne et son avenir commercial: Des relations à créer entre la Belgique et l'Espagne (Brussels: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie.)

Literary and historical writing

Adolphe Borgnet, Histoire des Belges à la fin du XVIIIe siècle^[17]
Charles De Coster, Contes brabançons
Gustave Oppelt, Histoire générale et chronologique de la Belgique, de 1830 à 1860 (Brussels, M. Hayez)^[18]
Auguste Scheler, Trente années de la littérature belge (Brussels: Aug. Schnée)^[19]
J.L.D. Sleeckx, Beschryving der Provincie Braband (Ghent: I.S. Van Doosselaere)^[20]
William Henry James Weale, Notes sur Jean van Eyck (Brussels: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie; London: Barthes & Lowell)

Music

Barthélemy-Antoine Bauwens, Le plain-chant mis à la portée de tout le monde (Paris and Brussels: Casterman)
Henri Vieuxtemps, Violin Concerto No. 5

Births

Elisabeth Wesmael, graphic artist (died 1953)
6 January – Victor Horta, architect (died 1947)
11 March – Francis Dhanis, colonial administrator (died 1909)
2 April – Ernest van Dyck, singer (died 1923)
20 April – Arthur Van Gehuchten, anatomist (died 1914)
5 July – Fernand Cocq, politician (died 1940)
12 July – Eugène Broerman, painter (died 1932)
13 August – Fernand Brouez, magazine publisher (died 1900)
16 August – Diana Coomans, painter (died 1952)
27 August – Aloïs de Beule, sculptor (died 1935)
1 September – Louis Bernheim, general (died 1931)
3 September – Ursmer Berlière, historian (died 1932)
9 October – Privat Livemont, artist (died 1936)
21 October – Charles van Lerberghe, poet (died 1907)
3 November – Louis Ruquoy, soldier (died 1937)
6 November – Germain Morin, patrologist (died 1946)
10 December – Guillaume Van Strydonck, painter (died 1937)

Deaths

5 April – Ferdinand de Meeûs (born 1798), politician
8 April – Édouard Wacken (born 1819), poet and dramatist
24 September – Michael Joseph François Scheidweiler (born 1799), horticulturalist
27 October – Marcellin Jobard (born 1792), photographer
3 December – Henry Voordecker (born 1779), painter
25 December – Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout (born 1793), painter

References

^ Joseph Powell, Two Years in the Pontifical Zouaves (London: R. Washburne, 1871), p. 2.
^ "Incendie du couvent des Trappistes – Le frère Robyn accusé", La Belgique judiciaire, vol. 19, no. 15 (21 February 1861), 233-235.[1]
^ C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 27-35. On Google Books
^ ^a ^b Marc Reynebeau, "Het Vlaemsch Verbond als politiek experiment (Gent, 1861–1862)", BMGN, 96/3 (1981), pp. 491-508.
^ Charles Terlinden, "T'Kint, Auguste-Pierre-Joseph", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 25 Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Brussels, 1932), 368–371.
^ Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 612.
^ Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de Belgique, vol. 49 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge, 1862), pp. 27-35. On Google Books.
^ "Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique". 1861.
^ Belgique Horticole on Google Books.
^ Bulletin d'Horticulture on Google Books.
^ Bulletin Usuel on Google Books.
^ Collection de précis historiques on Google Books.
^ Revue belge, vol. 12 on Google Books.
^ Bulletin administratif, 1 on Google Books.
^ Recueil des lois on Google Books.
^ Index of the Recueil des lois, 1830–1860)
^ Histoire des Belges at Internet Archive.
^ Histoire générale on Google Books.
^ Bibliotheca Belgica on Google Books.
^ Beschryving der Provincie Braband on Google Books.

[1] Joseph Powell, Two Years in the Pontifical Zouaves (London: R. Washburne, 1871), p. 2.

[2] "Incendie du couvent des Trappistes – Le frère Robyn accusé", La Belgique judiciaire, vol. 19, no. 15 (21 February 1861), 233-235.[1]

[3] C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 27-35. On Google Books

[VV-4] Marc Reynebeau, "Het Vlaemsch Verbond als politiek experiment (Gent, 1861–1862)", BMGN, 96/3 (1981), pp. 491-508.

[5] Charles Terlinden, "T'Kint, Auguste-Pierre-Joseph", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 25 Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Brussels, 1932), 368–371.

[6] Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 612.

[7] Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de Belgique, vol. 49 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge, 1862), pp. 27-35. On Google Books.

[8] "Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique". 1861.

[9] Belgique Horticole on Google Books.

[10] Bulletin d'Horticulture on Google Books.

[11] Bulletin Usuel on Google Books.

[12] Collection de précis historiques on Google Books.

[13] Revue belge, vol. 12 on Google Books.

[14] Bulletin administratif, 1 on Google Books.

[15] Recueil des lois on Google Books.

[16] Index of the Recueil des lois, 1830–1860)

[17] Histoire des Belges at Internet Archive.

[18] Histoire générale on Google Books.

[19] Bibliotheca Belgica on Google Books.

[20] Beschryving der Provincie Braband on Google Books.

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