Events in the year 1874 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold II Head of government: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 21 August); Jules Malou (from 21 August)
Events 20 January – Royal decree providing for subsidies to the dramatic arts. 19 March – Extradition treaty with the United States of America. 25 May – Provincial elections 1 June – Service starts on Brussels–Charleroi railway line. Nivelles railway station inaugurated. 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1874 21 August – Prime Minister Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt dies in office; succeeded by Jules Malou 2 September – Convention with The Netherlands for improvements to the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal signed in Brussels. 10 September – Postal convention with Peru signed in Brussels. 24 December – Extradition treaty with the German Empire, replacing earlier treaties with individual German states.
Publications Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique. 1874. (Brussels).
Émile de Laveleye, De la Proprieté et de ses Formes PrimitivesEnglish translation by G.R.L. Marriott, Primitive Property (London, 1878), on Internet Archive Eugène Van Bemmel, Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe & Cie., 1874)On Google Books
Art and architecture
Paintings Jean-François Portaels, Juive de Tanger
Births 13 January – Jozef-Ernest van Roey, archbishop (died 1961) 26 February – Gaston-Antoine Rasneur, bishop (died 1939) 19 April – Firmin Baes, painter (died 1943)
Deaths 17 February – Adolphe Quetelet (born 1796), mathematician 23 May – Sylvain Van de Weyer (born 1802), politician 4 July – Hippolyte Boulenger (born 1837), painter 21 August – Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (born 1794) 6 December – Gustaf Wappers (born 1803), painter
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