title: 1869 in Belgium
text: # 1869 in Belgium
  
  Events in the year 1869 in Belgium.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
      Monarch: Leopold II
      Head of government: Walthère Frère-Orban
  
  ## Events
  
  * Epidemic of typhoid fever in Brussels.
  * Brussels-South railway station $opens.^{:689}$
  
  ### February
  
  * 20 February – Belgian senate passes a law prohibiting any French company from purchasing Belgian $railways.^{:860}$
  
  ### April
  
  * 12 April – Metalworkers' strike at Cockerill in Seraing violently $repressed^{:688}$ (inspiring Karl Marx to write The Belgian Massacres).
  * 25 April – Protocol signed to settle railway disputes between France and $Belgium.^{:869}$
  
  ### May
  
  * 31 May – Horse-drawn buses introduced in $Brussels.^{:689}$
  
  ### September
  
  * 8 September – Belgian railways introduce cheap workers' season $tickets.^{:689}$
  
  ## Publications
  
  ### Periodicals
  
  * Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)
  * Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 6
  * Collection de précis historiques, vol. 18, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.
  
  ### Studies and reports
  
  * Édouard van den Corput, Origine et cause de l'epidémie de fièvre typhoide qui a règné à Bruxelles en 1869 (Brussels).
  * Jean-Auguste Jourdain, Dictionnaire encyclopédique de géographie historique du royaume en Belgique
  
  ### Literature
  
  * Maria Doolaeghe Najaarsvruchten
  
  ## Births
  
  * 5 April – Isabelle Errera, art historian (died 1929)
  * 3 June – Prince Baudouin of Belgium (died 1891)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 22 January – Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne (born $1859).^{:857}$
  * 4 February – Johan Michiel Dautzenberg (born 1808), poet and educationalist.
  * 26 August – Henri Leys (born 1815), $painter.^{:883}$
  * 11 October – François-Joseph Navez (born 1787), $painter.^{:690}$
  * 3 November – Cornelis Broeckx (born 1807), physician and bibliophile
  