1860 in Belgium

Events in the year 1860 in Belgium.

Events

28 May – Provincial elections
9 July – Belgian consulate in Damascus destroyed during anti-Christian pogroms.
18 July – Duties charged on goods brought from the countryside into towns abolished.
7 October – One of the monks sets fire to the church and one of the dormitories at Scourmont Priory.
16 November – Execution of Jan Coucke and Pieter Goethals.

Publications

;PeriodicalsAnnales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 8.Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 26.Annuaire militaire officiel, 14.La Belgique Horticole, 10.La BelgiqueBulletin du bibliophile belge, 16Collection de précis historiques, 9, edited by Edouard Terwecoren
;Monographs and reportsLa Belgique en 1860.Manifestation nationale du peuple belge en 1860.Recueil des pièces imprimées par ordre de la Chambre des Représentants, vol. 1.

Louis Hymans, Histoire populaire de la Belgique
F. Prové, De la question monétaire en Belgique.

;GuidebooksA Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland.
;Literature

Joseph Octave Delepierre, A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature and its Celebrated Authors from the Twelfth Century to the Present Time.
Jules de Saint-Genois, ''Profils et portraits''

Births

12 January – Charles Lemonnier, politician
24 February – Max Waller, writer
11 March – Rodolphe Wytsman, painter
2 April – Paul Costermans, colonial administrator
13 April – James Ensor, painter
2 May – Heva Coomans, painter
23 June – Albert Giraud, poet
28 June – Aloïs Biebuyck, officer
12 August – Ernest Baert, explorer
26 August – Luis Siret, archaeologist
4 December – Charles de Broqueville, politician
15 December – Alphonse Michaux, engraver
30 December – Leon Mazy, muralist

Deaths

1 April – Joseph Guislain, physician
20 April – Charles de Brouckère, politician
27 April – John E. Blox, Jesuit
11 September – Jean-Baptiste Masui, civil engineer
27 September – Charles-Joseph, 4th Duke d'Ursel, politician
10 October – Jules Victor Génisson, painter
13 October – Egide Linnig, artist
22 October – Pieter Vanderghinste, composer