Events

24 May – Convention with The Netherlands for building water defences on the Zwin signed in Bruges.^[1]
27 May – Provincial elections
11 June – Partial legislative elections of 1872
13 June – Postal convention with the Russian Empire signed in St Petersburg.^[2]
11 July – Convention with the German Empire regarding the Belgian State Railways taking over the railway lines between Spa and Gouvy and between Pepinster and Spa (formerly run by the French company Chemins de fer de l'Est) signed in Berlin.^[3]^[4]
31 July – Extradition treaty with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland signed in Brussels.^[5]
23 October – Extradition treaty with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg signed in The Hague.^[6]
26 October – Convention with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for rail connections between Belgium and Luxembourg.^[7]
15 November – Maredsous Abbey founded
10 December – Henri Guillaume resigns as Minister of War after failing to get the government to adopt a policy of personal military service.
25 December – Extradition treaty with the Russian Empire comes into effect.^[8]

Arts and architecture

15 May – Statue of Isabelle Brunelle, sculpted by Guillaume Geefs, unveiled in the garden of the Hospice d'Harscamp, Namur.

Publications

Émile de Laveleye, Essai sur les Formes de Gouvernement dans les Sociétés Modernes
P. Rombouts and T. van Lerius, De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde (Antwerp)^[9]

Births

23 February – Fernande de Cartier de Marchienne (died 1903)
30 May – Paul-Émile Janson, politician (died 1944)
8 June – Jan Frans De Boever, painter (died 1949)
9 July – Jacques Mesnil, art writer (died 1940)
30 July – Princess Clémentine of Belgium (died 1955)
19 August – Théophile de Donder, physicist (died 1957)
23 September – Marie Depage, nurse (died 1915)
22 November – Cécile Thévenet, opera singer (died 1956)
8 December – Jules Buyssens, landscape architect (died 1958)
28 December – Amandina of Schakkebroek, missionary martyr (died 1900)

Deaths

5 January – G. Henry Wouters (born 1802), Church historian
8 May – Alexandre Bivort (born 1809), pomologist
10 May – Félix Victor Goethals (born 1798), librarian
1 June – Edouard Terwecoren (born 1815), Jesuit author
5 June – Charles-Joseph Voisin (born 1802), art historian
22 October – Jules Borgnet (born 1817), archivist
23 October – Victor Coremans (born 1802), archivist

References

^ "Convention entre la Belgique et les Pays-Bas pour l'endiguement international du Zwin, signée à Bruges le 24 mai 1872". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 24 May 1872.
^ "Convention postale entre la Belgique et la Russie, signée à Saint-Petersbourg le 1 juin et 13 juin 1872". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 13 June 1872.
^ "Convention entre la Belgique et l'Allemagne pour règler la reprise par l'Etat Belge de l'exploitation des chemins de fer de Spa à Couvy et de Pepinster à Spa, et protocole, signés à Berlin le 11 juillet 1872". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 11 July 1872.
^ Ministry of Public Works, Chemin de fer de l'état. Postes – Télégraphes. Compte-rendu des opérations pendant l'année 1872 (Brussels, Fr. Gobbaerts, 1873), appendix 2. On Google Books
^ "Traité d'extradition entre la Belgique et le Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande, signé à Bruxelles le 31 juillet 1872". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 31 July 1872.
^ "Convention entre la Belgique et le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg pour l'extradition des malfaiteurs, signée à la Haye le 23 octobre 1872". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 23 October 1872.
^ "Convention entre la Belgique et le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg pour assurer les raccordements des chemins de fer Prince-Henri avec les chemins de fer Belges, signée à Bruxelles le 26 octobre 1872". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 26 October 1872.
^ "Convention d'extradition entre la Belgique et la Russie, signée à Saint-Petersbourg le 23 août et 4 septembre 1872". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 4 September 1872.
^ On Google books

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