← 1868 1867 1866 1869 in Belgium → 1870 1871 1872
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
See also:	Other events of 1869 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year1869 inBelgium.

Monarch:Leopold II

Head of government:Walthère Frère-Orban

• Epidemic oftyphoid fever in Brussels.
• Brussels-South railway station opens.^[1]: 689

February

• 20 February – Belgian senate passes a law prohibiting any French company from purchasing Belgian railways.^[2]: 860

April

• 12 April – Metalworkers' strike atCockerill inSeraing violently repressed^[1]: 688 (inspiringKarl Marx to writeThe Belgian Massacres).
• 25 April – Protocol signed to settle railway disputes between France and Belgium.^[2]: 869

May

• 31 May –Horse-drawn buses introduced in Brussels.^[1]: 689

September

• 8 September – Belgian railways introduce cheap workers' season tickets.^[1]: 689

Periodicals

• Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)^[3]
• Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 6^[4]
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 18, edited byEdouard Terwecoren S.J.^[5]

Studies and reports

• Édouard van den Corput,Origine et cause de l'epidémie de fièvre typhoide qui a règné à Bruxelles en 1869 (Brussels).
• Jean-Auguste Jourdain,Dictionnaire encyclopédique de géographie historique du royaume en Belgique^[6]

Literature

• Maria DoolaegheNajaarsvruchten

• 5 April –Isabelle Errera, art historian (died 1929)
• 3 June –Prince Baudouin of Belgium (died 1891)

• 22 January –Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne (born 1859).^[2]: 857
• 4 February – Johan Michiel Dautzenberg (born 1808), poet and educationalist.
• 26 August –Henri Leys (born 1815), painter.^[2]: 883
• 11 October –François-Joseph Navez (born 1787), painter.^[1]: 690
• 3 November –Cornelis Broeckx (born 1807), physician and bibliophile

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