1877 in Belgium

Events in the year 1877 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold II

Head of government: Jules Malou

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

Periodicals

• Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, 43 (Brussels, F. Hayez)
• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 46 (Brussels, F. Hayez).
• Moniteur belge.
• Recueil consulaire, 23 (Brussels, C. Torfs)
• Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, 48 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe)
• Revue de Belgique, 25-26.
• Revue de l'instruction publique en Belgique, 20 (Ghent, Eug. Vanderhaeghen)
• 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

Paintings

• 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 (died 1937)
• 24 January – Louise van den Plas, feminist (died 1968)
• 21 February – Jean Capart, Egyptologist (died 1947)
• 11 March – Alfred Loewenstein, financier (died 1928)
• 3 July – Marthe de Kerchove de Denterghem, feminist (died 1956)
• 10 July – Hélène Dutrieu, cyclist and aviator (died 1961)
• 14 July – Marie Alexandrine Becker, poisoner (died 1942)
• 11 August – Aloïs Catteau, cyclist (died 1939)
• 10 September – Henri Denis, general (died 1957)
• 26 September – Bertha De Vriese, physician (died 1958)
• 6 October – Oscar Taelman, Olympic rower (died 1945)
• 10 November – Marie-Georges-Gérard-Léon le Maire de Warzée d'Hermalle, diplomat (died 1931)

Deaths

• 1 January – Adolf Alexander Dillens (born 1821), painter
• 3 April – Jean-Baptiste Madou (born 1796), artist
• 16 April – Auguste Payen (born 1801), architect
• 2 June – Eugène Prévinaire (born 1805), civil servant and banker
• 3 June – Camille de Briey (born 1800), diplomat
• November – Louis-Pierre Verwee (born 1807), painter
• 7 November – Henri Guillaume (born 1812), general

References