1868 in Belgium

Events

• 3 January – Walthère Frère-Orban replaces Charles Rogier as Prime Minister
• 28 January – Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps enthroned as Archbishop of Mechelen.

• 1 March – Société Libre des Beaux-Arts founded.
• 24 March – 20 killed when soldiers shoot on striking miners from the Epine mine in Dampremy.

• 25 May – Provincial elections

• 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1868

• 6 August – 47 miners killed by a fire damp explosion in the Sainte Henriette mine near Jemappes.

• 7 September – Third international workers congress opens in Brussels.

• 23 October – Frederick Doulton, MP, brought to trial in Brussels on charges of fraud in public works, but acquitted of having broken any law.

Publications

• Almanach royal officiel Collection de précis historiques, vol. 17, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.
• Socialist daily newspaper De Werker launched in Antwerp.

• Charles Niellon, Histoire des événements militaires et des conspirations orangistes de la révolution en Belgique de 1830 à 1833

• Maria Doolaeghe, ''Winterbloemen''

Art and architecture

• Société Libre des Beaux-Arts founded

• Charles-Philogène Tschaggeny, The Covered Wagon

• Louis Jehotte's equestrian statue of Charlemagne inaugurated in Liège

Births

• 11 January – François Ruhlmann, conductor
• 5 February – Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer
• 23 February – Paul Bergmans, librarian
• 5 March – Prosper Poullet, politician
• 27 April – Herman Vander Linden, politician
• 18 June – Anna Kernkamp, artist
• 23 August – Paul Otlet, bibliographer
• 15 November – Marguerite Putsage, painter
• 28 November – Louis Franck, politician

Deaths

• 13 February – Dieudonné Stas, newspaperman
• 17 April – Guillaume-Hippolyte van Volxem, politician
• 30 April – Charles Le Hon, politician
• 9 July – Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps, military inventor
• 21 July – Édouard Ducpétiaux, prison reformer