1875 in Belgium

Events in the year 1875 in Belgium.

← 1874 1873 1872 1875 in Belgium → 1876 1877 1878
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	Other events of 1875 List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II

Head of government: Jules Malou

Events

• Delhaize brothers go into retail business.
• 4 February – Princess Louise of Belgium marries Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)
• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez).
• Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère begins publication

Official publications

• Le Moniteur Belge.

Reference works

• Eugène Van Bemmel, Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale, vol. 3 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe & Cie., 1875)

Books

• Hyacinthe De Bruyn, L'art belge au Salon de Bruxelles, 1875.

Art and architecture

Henri de Braekeleer, The Man in the Chair (1875)

Paintings

• Henri de Braekeleer, The Man in the Chair

Births

• 12 January – Charles de Hemricourt de Grunne (died 1937)
• 22 January – Blanche Rousseau, writer (died 1949)
• 8 March – Maurice Hemelsoet, Olympic rower (died 1943)
• 8 April – Albert I of Belgium (died 1934)
• 29 June – Adrienne Barbanson, aristocrat (died 1944)
• 31 July – Lucie Dejardin, politician (died 1945)
• 21 August – Maurice Lippens, politician (died 1956)
• 22 September – Ferdinand Perier, missionary (died 1968)
• 1 October – Eugeen Van Mieghem, painter (died 1930)
• 11 October – Émile Fairon, archivist (died 1945)
• 12 October – Émile Merlin, astronomer (died 1938)
• 26 November – Princess Marie of Croÿ (died 1968)
• 8 December – Jenny Montigny, painter (died 1937)
• 31 December – Jeanne de Vietinghoff, writer (died 1926)

Deaths

Marie Pleyel's tomb in Laeken Cemetery

• 15 January – Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy (born 1783), geologist
• 24 January – Jean-Joseph Raikem (born 1787), politician
• 2 February – Luigi Agnesi (born 1833), singer and composer
• 30 March – Marie Pleyel (born 1811), pianist
• 4 May – Rosalie Loveling (born 1834), author
• 10 May – Michel Van Cuyck (born 1797), artist
• 22 August – Charles Venneman (born 1802), painter
• 11 November – Ernest Louis de Gonzague Vandenpeereboom (born 1807), industrialist and politician
• 12 November – Paul Lauters (born 1806), artist