1875 in Belgium

Events

• Delhaize brothers go into retail business.
• 4 February – Princess Louise of Belgium marries Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Publications

• Almanach royal officiel Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique.Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère begins publication

• Eugène Van Bemmel, Patria Belgica: Encyclopédie nationale, vol. 3

• Hyacinthe De Bruyn, L'art belge au Salon de Bruxelles, 1875.

Art and architecture

• Henri de Braekeleer, ''The Man in the Chair''

Births

• 12 January – Charles de Hemricourt de Grunne
• 22 January – Blanche Rousseau, writer
• 8 March – Maurice Hemelsoet, Olympic rower
• 8 April – Albert I of Belgium
• 29 June – Adrienne Barbanson, aristocrat
• 31 July – Lucie Dejardin, politician
• 21 August – Maurice Lippens, politician
• 22 September – Ferdinand Perier, missionary
• 1 October – Eugeen Van Mieghem, painter
• 11 October – Émile Fairon, archivist
• 12 October – Émile Merlin, astronomer
• 26 November – Princess Marie of Croÿ
• 8 December – Jenny Montigny, painter
• 31 December – Jeanne de Vietinghoff, writer

Deaths

• 15 January – Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy, geologist
• 24 January – Jean-Joseph Raikem, politician
• 2 February – Luigi Agnesi, singer and composer
• 30 March – Marie Pleyel, pianist
• 4 May – Rosalie Loveling, author
• 10 May – Michel Van Cuyck, artist
• 22 August – Charles Venneman, painter
• 11 November – Ernest Louis de Gonzague Vandenpeereboom, industrialist and politician
• 12 November – Paul Lauters, artist