Events in the year 1869 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Monarch: Leopold II
Head of government: Walthère Frère-Orban
Events
Epidemic of typhoid fever in Brussels. Brussels-South railway station opens.
February
20 February – Belgian senate passes a law prohibiting any French company from purchasing Belgian railways.
April
12 April – Metalworkers' strike at Cockerill in Seraing violently repressed (inspiring Karl Marx to write The Belgian Massacres). 25 April – Protocol signed to settle railway disputes between France and Belgium.
May
31 May – Horse-drawn buses introduced in Brussels.
September
8 September – Belgian railways introduce cheap workers' season tickets.
Publications
Periodicals
Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, E. Guyot) Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 6 Collection de précis historiques, vol. 18, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.
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
Literature
Maria Doolaeghe Najaarsvruchten
Births
5 April – Isabelle Errera, art historian (died 1929) 3 June – Prince Baudouin of Belgium (died 1891)
Deaths
22 January – Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne (born 1859). 4 February – Johan Michiel Dautzenberg (born 1808), poet and educationalist. 26 August – Henri Leys (born 1815), painter. 11 October – François-Joseph Navez (born 1787), painter. 3 November – Cornelis Broeckx (born 1807), physician and bibliophile