1877 in Belgium

Incumbents

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 1877 – Law on secret ballot introduces use of voting booths at Belgian polling stations.

  Publications

• Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, 43
• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 46.
• Moniteur belge.
• Recueil consulaire, 23
• Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, 48
• Revue de Belgique, 25-26.
• Revue de l'instruction publique en Belgique, 20
• Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère, 3.

• Georges Eekhoud, Myrtes & Cyprès.

  Art and architecture

• E. Van Hoecke-Peeters, Jesuit house in Oostakker

• Léon Herbo, portrait of the sculptor Julien Dillens, winner of the 1877 Prix de Rome

  Births

• 24 January – Louise van den Plas, feminist
• 21 February – Jean Capart, Egyptologist
• 11 March – Alfred Loewenstein, financier
• 3 July – Marthe de Kerchove de Denterghem, feminist
• 10 July – Hélène Dutrieu, cyclist and aviatrix
• 14 July – Marie Alexandrine Becker, poisoner
• 11 August – Aloïs Catteau, cyclist
• 10 September – Henri Denis, general
• 26 September – Bertha De Vriese, physician
• 6 October – Oscar Taelman, Olympic rower
• 10 November – Marie-Georges-Gérard-Léon le Maire de Warzée d'Hermalle, diplomat

  Deaths

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