1876 in Belgium

Incumbents

Events

• 20 April – Leopold I's mortal remains transferred to the crypt of the Church of Our Lady of Laeken
• 13 June – Partial legislative election
• 12 September – Brussels Geographic Conference opens, leading to the foundation of the International African Association
• 27 September – Opening of the International Congress of Hygiene and Life-Saving Equipment in Brussels, as part of the International Exhibition of Hygiene.

  Publications

• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 45.
• Revue de Belgique, 23.
• Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère, 2.

• Léon d'Andrimont, La coopération ouvrière en Belgique.

  Art and architecture

• Oostakker Basilica completed

  Births

• 1 March
• * Henri de Baillet-Latour, IOC president
• * Maurice Emile Marie Goetghebuer, entomologist
• 7 April – Jules Degeetere, cyclist
• 26 June – Armand Renier, geologist
• 16 July – Victor van Strydonck de Burkel, general
• 2 August – Julien Lootens, cyclist
• 19 August – Oscar de Somville, Olympic rower
• 8 September – Thomas Braun, poet
• 12 September – Flor Alpaerts, composer
• 26 September – Georges Lebacq, painter
• 18 October – Charles van den Bussche, Olympic sailor
• 17 November – Joseph Van De Meulebroeck, politician
• 16 December – Rodolphe Seeldrayers, FIFA president

  Deaths

• 7 January – Marie Thérèse Haze, religious foundress
• 16 April – Auguste de Peellaert, soldier and artist
• 17 April – Adolphe Pierre Sunaert, artist and teacher
• 23 May – Victor de Buck, Jesuit
• 23 August – Giovanni Inchindi, opera singer
• 29 October – Jacques Gregoir, composer