1879 in Belgium

The following lists events that happened during 1879 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

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See also:

Other events of 1879
List of years in Belgium

Incumbents

Events

Firedamp explosion at Agrappe Mine, 17 April 1879

2 March – Castle in Tervuren burns down.
17 April – Firedamp explosion at Agrappe Mine in Frameries.
1 July – Law secularising primary education passes, triggering First School War[2]

Publications

Periodicals

Almanach de Poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, H. Manceaux)[3]
Bulletin de la Société belge de géographie, 3 (Brussels, Secrétariat de la Société Belge de Géographie)[4]

Books

Hendrik Conscience, Het wassen beeld
Léon Vanderkindere, Le siècle des Artevelde: études sur la civilisation morale & politique de la Flandre & du Brabant (Brussels, A.-N. Lebègue).[5]

Art and architecture

Leuven railway station, rebuilt 1879

Leuven railway station rebuilt

Births

5 February – Jules De Bisschop, Olympic rower (died 1954)
15 February – Camille Van Hoorden, footballer (died 1919)
28 April – Edgard Tytgat, painter (died 1957)
29 April – Marie Haps, philanthropist (died 1939)
22 May – Aston Chichester, bishop (died 1962)
27 May – Arthur Balbaert, sports shooter (died 1938)
24 August – Achille Delattre, politician (died 1964)
26 September – Alexandre Galopin, businessman (died 1944)
9 October – Edgar Sengier, mining engineer (died 1963)
21 October – Maurice Beeli, botanist (died 1957)
25 October – Jean Rogister, musician (died 1964)
18 December Joseph Lebon, theologian (died 1957)

Deaths

7 May – Charles De Coster (born 1827), novelist
19 May – Jules Anspach (born 1829), politician
16 July – Konrad Martin (born 1812), German bishop
11 August – Jan Swerts (born 1820), painter
18 August – Joseph Octave Delepierre (born 1802), antiquary
24 August – Théodore de Montpellier (born 1807), bishop of Liège
30 September – Félicien Chapuis (born 1824), entomologist
3 November – Joseph Poelaert (born 1817), architect
9 December – Jacob Jacobs (born 1812), painter

References

"Leopold II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
Mathias El Berhoumi, Le régime juridique de la liberté d'enseignement à l'épreuve des politiques scolaires (Bruylant, 2013).
On Archives de Bruxelles
"Bulletin". 1879.
On Google Books

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Years in Belgium
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1879 in Europe
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