1869 in Belgium

Events

• Epidemic of typhoid fever in Brussels.
• Brussels-South railway station opens.

• 20 February – Belgian senate passes a law prohibiting any French company from purchasing Belgian railways.

• 12 April – Metalworkers' strike at Cockerill in Seraing violently repressed.
• 25 April – Protocol signed to settle railway disputes between France and Belgium.

• 31 May – Horse-drawn buses introduced in Brussels.

• 8 September – Belgian railways introduce cheap workers' season tickets.

Publications

• Almanach royal officiel Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 6Collection de précis historiques, vol. 18, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.

• Édouard van den Corput, Origine et cause de l'epidémie de fièvre typhoide qui a règné à Bruxelles en 1869.
• Jean-Auguste Jourdain, Dictionnaire encyclopédique de géographie historique du royaume en Belgique

• Maria Doolaeghe ''Najaarsvruchten''

Births

• 5 April – Isabelle Errera, art historian
• 3 June – Prince Baudouin of Belgium

Deaths

• 22 January – Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne.
• 4 February – Johan Michiel Dautzenberg, poet and educationalist.
• 26 August – Henri Leys, painter.
• 11 October – François-Joseph Navez, painter.
• 3 November – Cornelis Broeckx, physician and bibliophile