1868 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1868 in Belgium.
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Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold II
- Head of government: Charles Rogier (to 3 January); Walthère Frère-Orban (from 3 January)
Events
- 3 January – Walthère Frère-Orban replaces Charles Rogier as Prime Minister
- 9 June – Partial legislative elections of 1868
- 6 August – 47 miners killed by a fire damp explosion in the Sainte Henriette mine near Jemappes.[1]:836
- 23 October – Frederick Doulton, MP, brought to trial in Brussels on charges of fraud in public works, but acquitted of having broken any law.[1]:{{{3}}}
Births
- 11 January – François Ruhlmann, conductor (died 1948).
- 5 February – Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer (died 1952).
- 5 March – Prosper Poullet, politician (died 1937).
- 28 November – Louis Franck, politician (died 1937).
Deaths
- 17 April – [Guillaume-Hippolyte van Volxem ]] (born 1791), politician
- 30 April – Charles Le Hon (born 1792), politician
- 9 July – Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps (born 1783), military inventor
- 21 July – Édouard Ducpétiaux (born 1804), prison reformer
