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List of events
Jean-Baptiste Van Moer , Brussels in 1868 (1872)
Events in the year 1868 in
Belgium .
Incumbents
Monarch :
Leopold II
Head of government :
Charles Rogier (to 3 January);
Walthère Frère-Orban (from 3 January)
Events
January
March
May
25 May – Provincial elections
June
August
6 August – 47 miners killed by a
fire damp explosion in the Sainte Henriette mine near
Jemappes .
[3] : 836
September
October
23 October –
Frederick Doulton , MP, brought to trial in Brussels on charges of fraud in public works, but acquitted of having broken any law.
[3] : 843
Publications
Periodicals
Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot)
[4]
Collection de précis historiques , vol. 17, edited by
Edouard Terwecoren S.J.
[5]
Socialist daily newspaper De Werker launched in Antwerp (October).
[2] : 686
Series
History
Charles Niellon , Histoire des événements militaires et des conspirations orangistes de la révolution en Belgique de 1830 à 1833 (Brussels, M.J. Poot)
[6]
Literature
Art and architecture
Inauguration of
Louis Jehotte 's equestrian
statue of Charlemagne in Liège
Paintings
Sculptures
Births
Deaths
References