1864 in Belgium

Events

• Belgian State Railways Type 1 taken into use

• 4 February – Belgian Red Cross founded

• Charles Baudelaire moves to Brussels.

• 21 May – Father Damien ordained in Honolulu
• 23 May – Provincial elections
• 29 May – Princess Charlotte lands in Mexico to become Empress as consort of Maximilian I of Mexico

• 11 July – Federation of Catholic Circles and Conservative Associations formed

• 11 August – 1864 Belgian general election, won by Liberal Party
• 29 August – Catholic Congress in Mechelen opens

• Exhibition of medieval, Renaissance and contemporary religious art in Mechelen.

• 16 October – Belgian Legion embark for Mexico to take part in the Second French intervention in Mexico

Sports

• Royal Athletics Association Ghent founded

Publications

• Annales du bibliophile belge begins publication.
• Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique begins publication, edited by Mgr. De Ram.
• Antwerpsch Archievenblad begins publication.
• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, Volume 17.Collection de précis historiques, vol. 13, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.

• Auguste Louwage, Les trois soeurs Flamandes. Gand, Bruges, Anvers: trilogie nationale.

• Pierre Joseph Le Boucq, Histoire des troubles advenues à Valenciennes à cause des hérésies, 1562-1579, edited by A.-P.-L. de Robaulx de Soumoy.

Births

• 11 January – Henri Daco, painter
• 26 March – Louis Reckelbus, painter
• 21 May – Princess Stéphanie of Belgium
• 22 May – Josue Dupon, sculptor
• 10 October – Blanche Arral, soprano
• 22 October – Eugène Laermans, painter
• 2 November – Oscar Roels, composer
• 28 November – Léon van Hout, musician

Deaths

• 19 February – Ferdinand Lecouvet, bibliographer.
• 23 March – Jean-Baptiste Malou, bishop
• 5 April – Louis Roelandt, architect
• 27 May – Léandre Desmaisières, politician
• 1 September – Jean Kickx, botanist
• 2 October – Louis-Joseph Delebecque, bishop of Ghent