Events in the year 1864 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold I Head of government: Charles Rogier
Events Belgian State Railways Type 1 taken into use
February 4 February – Belgian Red Cross founded
April Charles Baudelaire moves to Brussels.
May 21 May – Father Damien ordained in Honolulu 23 May – Provincial elections 29 May – Princess Charlotte lands in Mexico to become Empress as consort of Maximilian I of Mexico
July 11 July – Federation of Catholic Circles and Conservative Associations formed (later to become the more formalised Catholic Party)
August 11 August – 1864 Belgian general election, won by Liberal Party 29 August – Catholic Congress in Mechelen opens (to 3 September)Assemblée générale des catholiques en Belgique (Brussels, Victor Devaux, 1865) On Google Books
September Exhibition of medieval, Renaissance and contemporary religious art in Mechelen.William Henry James Weale (ed.), Catalogue des objets d'art religieux du Moyen-Age, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes exposés à l'Hôtel Liedekerke à Malines, septembre 1864 (2nd ed., Brussels, Charles Lelong, 1864). On Internet Archive.
October 16 October – Belgian Legion embark for Mexico to take part in the Second French intervention in Mexico
Sports Royal Athletics Association Ghent founded
Publications Periodicals Annales du bibliophile belge begins publication. Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique begins publication, edited by Mgr. De Ram.Vol. 1 on Google Books. Antwerpsch Archievenblad begins publication. Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, Volume 17 (Brussels, M. Hayez).On Google Books Collection de précis historiques, vol. 13, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.On Google Books
Pamphlets Réflexions sur les conséquences probables de l'expédition mexicaine (Brussels).On Google Books
Literary works Auguste Louwage, Les trois soeurs Flamandes. Gand, Bruges, Anvers: trilogie nationale (Ghent, F. & E. Gyselynck).On Google Books
Scholarly editions Pierre Joseph Le Boucq, Histoire des troubles advenues à Valenciennes à cause des hérésies, 1562-1579, edited by A.-P.-L. de Robaulx de Soumoy (Brussels, Ghent and Leipzig).On Google Books
Births 11 January – Henri Daco, painter (died 1932) 26 March – Louis Reckelbus, painter (died 1958) 21 May – Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (died 1945) 22 May – Josue Dupon, sculptor (died 1935) 26 July – Frédéric Alvin, numismatist (died 1949) 10 October – Blanche Arral, soprano (died 1945) 22 October – Eugène Laermans, painter (died 1940) 2 November – Oscar Roels, composer (died 1938) 28 November – Léon van Hout, musician (died 1945)
Deaths 19 February – Ferdinand Lecouvet (born 1827), bibliographer.Ferdinand Loise, "Lecouvet (Ferdinand-François-Joseph)", in Biographie Nationale de Belgique, Volume 11 (Brussels, 1891), 596-599F.V.H., Notice biographique sur Monsieur F.-F.-J. Lecouvet (Ghent, L. Hebbelynck, 1864) On Google Books. 23 March – Jean-Baptiste Malou (born 1806), bishop 5 April – Louis Roelandt (born 1786), architect 27 May – Léandre Desmaisières (born 1794), politician 1 September – Jean Kickx (born 1803), botanist 2 October – Louis-Joseph Delebecque (born 1798), bishop of Ghent
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