title: 1867 in Belgium
text: # 1867 in Belgium
  
  Events in the year 1867 in Belgium.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
      Monarch: Leopold II
      Head of government: Charles Rogier
  
  ## Events
  
  ### February
  
  * 2 February – Mines across the Charleroi coalfield closed by $strikes.^{:684}$
  * 23 February – Commercial treaty with the Austrian Empire, mutually granting most favoured nation status.
  
  ### April
  
  * 25 April – Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, marries Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
  
  ### May
  
  * 11 May – Treaty of London establishes independence of Luxembourg; Prussian forces evacuated from $Grand-Duchy.^{:684}$
  * 17 May – New criminal code $published.^{:684}$
  * 19 May – Paper ballots introduced in $elections.^{:684}$
  
  ### July
  
  * Delhaize Brothers begin $trading.^{:684}$
  * 11-18 July – 2,400 Belgian Volunteers visit London, received by the Lord Mayor, entertained by the Wimbledon Volunteers, and a ball held in their honour at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, attended by Prince Albert.
  
  ### August
  
  * 2 August – Peter Benoit becomes head of the Antwerp $conservatory.^{:684}$
  
  ### September
  
  * 2-7 September – Third Catholic Congress in Mechelen.
  
  ### December
  
  * 8 December – Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps named Archbishop of Mechelen in succession to the recently deceased Engelbert Sterckx (enthroned 28 January 1868).
  
  ## Publications
  
  ### Periodicals
  
  * Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)
  * Collection de précis historiques, 16, edited by Edouard Terwecoren
  
  ### Books
  
  * Charles De Coster, La Légende d'Uylenspiegel (Brussels)
  
  ## Births
  
  * 19 January – Jean Delville, painter (died 1953)
  * 28 February – William Degouve de Nuncques, painter (died 1935)
  * 2 April – Louise Danse, painter (died 1948)
  * 6 April – Maurice De Wulf, philosopher (died 1947)
  * 15 May – Jef Leempoels, painter (died 1935)
  * 27 May – Anna De Weert, painter (died 1950)
  * 4 August – Valerius de Saedeleer, painter (died 1941)
  * 7 August – Léo d'Ursel, diplomat (died 1934)
  * 10 August – Bruno Destrée, monk-poet (died 1919)
  * 21 June – Meyrianne Héglon, opera singer (died 1942)
  * 8 November
     * Léopold Charlier, violinist (died 1936)
     * Léon Houa, cyclist (died 1918)
  * 27 December – Léon Delacroix, prime minister (died 1929)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 10 January – Alfred Mosselman (born 1810), industrialist
  * 2 March – Frans-Andries Durlet (born 1816), architect
  * 4 June – Jan Teichmann (born 1788), engineer
  * 10 September – Jules de Saint-Genois (born 1813), politician
  * 12 November – Charles Frédéric Dubois (born 1804), naturalist
  * 4 December – Engelbert Sterckx (born 1792), archbishop
  