1872 in Belgium

Events in the year 1872 in Belgium.

Events

24 May – Convention with The Netherlands for building water defences on the Zwin signed in Bruges.
27 May – Provincial elections
11 June – Partial legislative elections of 1872
13 June – Postal convention with the Russian Empire signed in St Petersburg.
11 July – Convention with the German Empire regarding the Belgian State Railways taking over the railway lines between Spa and Gouvy and between Pepinster and Spa signed in Berlin.
31 July – Extradition treaty with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland signed in Brussels.
23 October – Extradition treaty with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg signed in The Hague.
26 October – Convention with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for rail connections between Belgium and Luxembourg.
15 November – Maredsous Abbey founded
10 December – Henri Guillaume resigns as Minister of War after failing to get the government to adopt a policy of personal military service.
25 December – Extradition treaty with the Russian Empire comes into effect.

Monument to John Cockerill inaugurated in Ixelles.
15 May – Statue of Isabelle Brunelle, sculpted by Guillaume Geefs, unveiled in the garden of the Hospice d'Harscamp, Namur.

Émile de Laveleye, Essai sur les Formes de Gouvernement dans les Sociétés Modernes
P. Rombouts and T. van Lerius, De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche Sint Lucasgilde
Hippolyte Tarlier, ''Dictionnaire des communes belges, des hameaux, charbonnages, carrières, mines, châteaux, fermes, moulins, etc.''