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Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	Other events of 1871 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1871 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II

Head of government: Jules d'Anethan (to 7 December); Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (from 7 December)

Events

January

• 1 January – Belgium repeals import duty on salt.^[1]

February

• 21 February – Regular railway services between France and Belgium resumed.^[2]

March

• 21 March – Victor Hugo moves to Brussels.^[3]

June

• 1 June – Victor Hugo expelled from Belgium for endangering the public peace after publishing a letter in L'Indépendance Belge of 26 May criticising the Belgian government's attitude to Communard refugees.^[4]

December

• 7 December – Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt replaces Jules d'Anethan as Prime Minister.

Publications

Serials

• Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 8.^[5]
• Annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 27.^[6]
• Annales du Cercle archéologique de Mons, vol. 10.^[7]
• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 25.^[8]
• Archives médicales belges, second series, vol. 14.^[9]
• Le Bibliophile belge, vol. 6.^[10]
• Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, third series, vol. 5.^[11]
• Bulletin de la Commission royale d'Histoire, third series, vol. 12.^[12]
• Bulletins d'arboriculture, de floriculture et de culture potagère^[13]
• Revue de Belgique, vol. 3.^[14]
• Revue de la numismatique belge, fifth series, vol. 3.^[15]

Official publications

• Code des contributions directes, douanes et accises de la Belgique, en vigueur au 1er janvier 1871^[16]
• Moniteur belge: journal officiel^[17]
• Rapport triennal sur la situation de l'instruction primaire en Belgique^[18]
• Rapport triennal sur l'état de l'enseignement moyen en Belgique^[19]

Other

• Léon d'Andrimont, Des institutions et des associations ouvrières de la Belgique^[20]
• Émile de Borchgrave, Essai historique sur les colonies belges qui s'établirent en Hongrie et en Transylvanie pendant les XIe, XIIe et XIIIe siècles (Brussels)^[21]
• Jean-Baptist David, Manuel de l'histoire de Belgique^[22]
• Edouard Dupont, Les temps antéhistoriques en Belgique
• J.S.G. Nypels, Pasinomie. Collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et régelements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique^[23]
• Adolphe Quetelet, Histoire des sciences mathématiques et physiques chez les Belges^[24]
• Eugène Somerhausen, Code politique de la Belgique^[25]
• Edward Van Even, Mengelingen voor de geschiedenis van Braband^[26]

Births

• 10 January – Emiel van Heurck, folklorist (died 1931)
• 8 February – Médard Tytgat, illustrator (died 1948)
• 14 May – Louis de Brouchoven de Bergeyck, politician (died 1938)
• 26 May – Camille Huysmans, politician (died 1968)
• 29 May – Pieter Franciscus Dierckx, painter (died 1950)
• 8 June – Aloys Van de Vyvere, politician (died 1961)
• 12 June – Lu Zhengxiang (in Shanghai), abbot (died 1949)
• 9 July – Auguste-Léopold Huys, missionary (died 1938)
• 11 July – Armand Huyghé, soldier (died 1944)
• 23 July – Ovide Decroly, psychologist (died 1932)
• 30 September – Adolphe Stoclet, art collector (died 1949)
• 5 October – Karl Hanquet, historian (died 1928)
• 30 November – Emile de Cartier de Marchienne, diplomat (died 1946)
• 29 December – Emmanuel Foulon, Olympic archer (died 1945)

Deaths

• 8 January – Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans (born 1825), priest and botanist
• 18 January – Princess Joséphine Marie of Belgium (born 1870)
• 2 February – Jan Frans Loos (born 1799), politician
• 10 February – Étienne Constantin de Gerlache (born 1785), first Prime Minister of Belgium
• 26 March – François-Joseph Fétis (born 1784), musicologist
• 18 May – Constance Trotti (born 1800), hostess and patron of the arts
• October – Théodore Fourmois (born 1814), artist