1868 in Belgium
Events in the year 1868 in Belgium.
Events
;January- 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
;August
;September
- 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
;Periodicals- Almanach royal officiel Collection de précis historiques, vol. 17, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.
- Socialist daily newspaper De Werker launched in Antwerp.
;History
- 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
;Sculptures
- 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