The following lists events that happened during 1882 in the Kingdom of 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 (the Peltzer Case). 6 May – North Sea Fisheries Convention signed, to come into effect in 1884. 22 May – Provincial elections 13 June – Legislative elections 31 July – Désiré-Joseph Mercier appointed to the new chair in Thomist philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain.Robert Wielockx, "De Mercier à De Wulf: Débuts de l'École de Louvain", in Gli studi di filosofia medievale fra otto e novecento, edited by Ruedi Imbach and Alfonso Maierù (Rome, 1991), p. 77. Preview on Google Books 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.Christiaan Sterken, Jean-Charles Houzeau and the 1882 Belgian Transit of Venus Expeditions, Journal of Astronomical Data 19:1 (2013), 169-180.
Publications Periodicals Bulletins de l'Acadie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 3rd series, vol. 4On Internet Archive
Conference proceedings Congrès international de l'enseignement, Bruxelles, 1880: Discussions (Brussels, Librairie de l'Office de Publicité)On Internet Archive
Art and architecture
Buildings Henri Rieck's Northern Gallery opens in Brussels 1 July – Last stone laid of Palais de Justice, Brussels (formally opened 1883)
Births 10 January – Eugène Joseph Delporte, astronomer (died 1955) 5 February – Georges Dandoy, missionary (died 1962) 1 April – Paul Anspach, fencer (died 1981) 16 June – Josef Christiaens, driver and aviator (died 1919) 10 July – Henri Anspach, fencer (died 1979) 15 July – Albert Hustin, doctor (died 1967) 2 September – Nico Gunzburg, criminologist (died 1984) 19 October – Norbert Wallez, newspaper editor (died 1952)
Deaths 7 February – Édouard De Bièfve (born 1808), painter 9 July – Louis-Charles Verwee (born 1832), painter 25 September – Désiré van Monckhoven (born 1834), photographer 17 November – Henri Julien Allard (born 1803), politician
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