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See also:	Other events of 1869; List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1869 in Belgium.

Incumbents

20 February – Belgian senate passes a law prohibiting any French company from purchasing Belgian railways.^[2]^: 860

12 April – Metalworkers' strike at Cockerill in Seraing violently repressed^[1]^: 688 (inspiring Karl Marx to write The Belgian Massacres).
25 April – Protocol signed to settle railway disputes between France and Belgium.^[2]^: 869

8 September – Belgian railways introduce cheap workers' season tickets.^[1]^: 689

Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)^[3]
Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 6^[4]
Collection de précis historiques, vol. 18, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.^[5]

Édouard van den Corput, Origine et cause de l'epidémie de fièvre typhoide qui a règné à Bruxelles en 1869 (Brussels).
Jean-Auguste Jourdain, Dictionnaire encyclopédique de géographie historique du royaume en Belgique^[6]

22 January – Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne (born 1859).^[2]^: 857
4 February – Johan Michiel Dautzenberg (born 1808), poet and educationalist.
26 August – Henri Leys (born 1815), painter.^[2]^: 883
11 October – François-Joseph Navez (born 1787), painter.^[1]^: 690
3 November – Cornelis Broeckx (born 1807), physician and bibliophile

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871).
^ "Almanach royal officiel de Belgique". 1869.
^ "Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique". 1864.
^ On Google Books
^ vol. 1, vol. 2