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Other events of 1875
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1875 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)^[1]
Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez).^[2]
Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère begins publication^[3]

Official publications

Le Moniteur Belge.^[4]

Reference works

Eugène Van Bemmel, Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale, vol. 3 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe & Cie., 1875)^[5]

Books

Hyacinthe De Bruyn, L'art belge au Salon de Bruxelles, 1875.^[6]

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

References

^ Belgien (1875). "Almanach royal officiel: 1875".
^ "Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique". 1875.
^ "Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère". 1875.
^ January–March, April–June, July–September, October–December
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