1877 in Belgium
Events in the year 1877 in Belgium.
Events
- Musical Instrument Museum established in the Royal Conservatory of Brussels
- Plantin-Moretus Museum established in Antwerp
- 16 January – Extradition agreement with the Netherlands signed in Brussels.
- 14 March – Trade agreement with Romania signed in Brussels.
- 9 July – Law on secret ballot introduces use of voting booths at Belgian polling stations.
- 19 August – Plantin-Moretus Museum opens to the public.
Publications
;PeriodicalsAnnuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, 43 Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 46.Moniteur belge.Recueil consulaire, 23 Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, 48 Revue de Belgique, 25-26.Revue de l'instruction publique en Belgique, 20 Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère, 3.;Other
- Georges Eekhoud, Myrtes & Cyprès.
Art and architecture
;Buildings- E. Van Hoecke-Peeters, Jesuit house in Oostakker
- Léon Herbo, portrait of the sculptor Julien Dillens, winner of the 1877 Prix de Rome
- Louis Tytgadt, ''Readers of the "Gazette van Gent"''
Science
- Louis Melsens becomes the second person to receive the Guinard Prize by the Brussels Academy, a Belgian award, given every 5 years since 1872, to the scientist who has written the best work or created the best invention to improve the material or intellectual position of the working class.
Births
- 9 January – Joseph Mansion, philologist
- 24 January – Louise van den Plas, feminist
- 21 February – Jean Capart, Egyptologist
- 11 March – Alfred Loewenstein, financier
- 3 July – Marthe de Kerchove de Denterghem, feminist
- 10 July – Hélène Dutrieu, cyclist and aviator
- 14 July – Marie Alexandrine Becker, poisoner
- 11 August – Aloïs Catteau, cyclist
- 10 September – Henri Denis, general
- 26 September – Bertha De Vriese, physician
- 6 October – Oscar Taelman, Olympic rower
- 10 November – Marie-Georges-Gérard-Léon le Maire de Warzée d'Hermalle, diplomat
Deaths
- 1 January – Adolf Alexander Dillens, painter
- 3 April – Jean-Baptiste Madou, artist
- 16 April – Auguste Payen, architect
- 2 June – Eugène Prévinaire, civil servant and banker
- 3 June – Camille de Briey, diplomat
- November – Louis-Pierre Verwee, painter
- 7 November – Henri Guillaume, general