1867 in Belgium

Events

• 2 February – Mines across the Charleroi coalfield closed by strikes.
• 23 February – Commercial treaty with the Austrian Empire, mutually granting most favoured nation status.

• 25 April – Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, marries Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

• 11 May – Treaty of London establishes independence of Luxembourg; Prussian forces evacuated from Grand-Duchy.
• 17 May – New criminal code published.
• 19 May – Paper ballots introduced in elections.

• Delhaize Brothers begin trading.
• 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.

• 2 August – Peter Benoit becomes head of the Antwerp conservatory.

• 2-7 September – Third Catholic Congress in Mechelen.

• 8 December – Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps named Archbishop of Mechelen in succession to the recently deceased Engelbert Sterckx.

Publications

• Almanach royal officiel Collection de précis historiques, 16, edited by Edouard Terwecoren

• Charles De Coster, ''La Légende d'Uylenspiegel''

Births

• 19 January – Jean Delville, painter
• 28 February – William Degouve de Nuncques, painter
• 2 April – Louise Danse, painter
• 6 April – Maurice De Wulf, philosopher
• 15 May – Jef Leempoels, painter
• 27 May – Anna De Weert, painter
• 4 August – Valerius de Saedeleer, painter
• 7 August – Léo d'Ursel, diplomat
• 10 August – Bruno Destrée, monk-poet
• 21 June – Meyrianne Héglon, opera singer
• 8 November
• * Léopold Charlier, violinist
• * Léon Houa, cyclist
• 27 December – Léon Delacroix, prime minister

Deaths

• 10 January – Alfred Mosselman, industrialist
• 2 March – Frans-Andries Durlet, architect
• 4 June – Jan Teichmann, engineer
• 10 September – Jules de Saint-Genois, politician
• 12 November – Charles Frédéric Dubois, naturalist
• 4 December – Engelbert Sterckx, archbishop