1860 in Belgium

Events in the year 1860 in Belgium.

Monarchy of Belgium: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

• 28 May – Provincial elections
• 9 July – Belgian consulate in Damascus destroyed during anti-Christian pogroms.
• 18 July – Duties charged on goods brought from the countryside into towns abolished.
• 7 October – One of the monks sets fire to the church and one of the dormitories at Scourmont Priory.
• 16 November – Execution of Jan Coucke and Pieter Goethals.

Periodicals

• Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 8.
• Annuaire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 26.
• Annuaire militaire officiel, 14.
• La Belgique Horticole, 10.
• La Belgique
• Bulletin du bibliophile belge, 16
• Collection de précis historiques, 9, edited by Edouard Terwecoren

Monographs and reports

• La Belgique en 1860 (Brussels, Philippe Hen).
• Manifestation nationale du peuple belge en 1860 (Brussels, E. Guyot, and Haarlem, J. J. Weeveringh).
• Recueil des pièces imprimées par ordre de la Chambre des Représentants, vol. 1.
• Louis Hymans, Histoire populaire de la Belgique (Brussels and Leipzig, Auguste Schnée)
• F. Prové, De la question monétaire en Belgique (Brussels, J.-B. Tarride).

Guidebooks

• A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide to Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Northern Germany, and the Rhine from Holland to Switzerland (London, John Murray).

Literature

• Joseph Octave Delepierre, A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature and its Celebrated Authors from the Twelfth Century to the Present Time (London, John Murray).
• Jules de Saint-Genois, Profils et portraits

• 12 January – Charles Lemonnier, politician (died 1930)
• 24 February – Max Waller, writer (died 1889)
• 11 March – Rodolphe Wytsman, painter (died 1927)
• 2 April – Paul Costermans, colonial administrator (died 1905)
• 13 April – James Ensor, painter (died 1949)
• 2 May – Heva Coomans, painter (died 1939)
• 23 June – Albert Giraud, poet (died 1929)
• 28 June – Aloïs Biebuyck, officer (died 1944)
• 12 August – Ernest Baert, explorer (died 1894)
• 26 August – Luis Siret, archaeologist (died 1934)
• 4 December – Charles de Broqueville, politician (died 1940)
• 15 December – Alphonse Michaux, engraver (died 1928)
• 30 December – Leon Mazy, muralist (died 1938)

• 1 April – Joseph Guislain (born 1797), physician
• 20 April – Charles de Brouckère (born 1796), politician
• 27 April – John E. Blox (born 1810), Jesuit
• 11 September – Jean-Baptiste Masui (born 1798), civil engineer
• 27 September – Charles-Joseph, 4th Duke d'Ursel (born 1777), politician
• 10 October – Jules Victor Génisson (born 1805), painter
• 13 October – Egide Linnig (born 1821), artist
• 22 October – Pieter Vanderghinste (born 1789), composer