# 1871 in Belgium

Events in the year 1871 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

    Monarch: Leopold II
    Head of government: Jules d'Anethan (to 7 December); Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (from 7 December)

## Events
### January

* 1 January – Belgium repeals import duty on salt.

### February

* 21 February – Regular railway services between France and Belgium resumed.

### March

* 21 March – Victor Hugo moves to Brussels.

### June

* 1 June – Victor Hugo expelled from Belgium for endangering the public peace after publishing a letter in L'Indépendance Belge of 26 May criticising the Belgian government's attitude to Communard refugees.

### December

* 7 December – Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt replaces Jules d'Anethan as Prime Minister.

## Publications
### Serials

* Analectes pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, vol. 8.
* Annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 27.
* Annales du Cercle archéologique de Mons, vol. 10.
* Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 25.
* Archives médicales belges, second series, vol. 14.
* Le Bibliophile belge, vol. 6.
* Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, third series, vol. 5.
* Bulletin de la Commission royale d'Histoire, third series, vol. 12.
* Bulletins d'arboriculture, de floriculture et de culture potagère
* Revue de Belgique, vol. 3.
* Revue de la numismatique belge, fifth series, vol. 3.

### Official publications

* Code des contributions directes, douanes et accises de la Belgique, en vigueur au 1er janvier 1871
* Moniteur belge: journal officiel
* Rapport triennal sur la situation de l'instruction primaire en Belgique
* Rapport triennal sur l'état de l'enseignement moyen en Belgique

### Other

* Léon d'Andrimont, Des institutions et des associations ouvrières de la Belgique
* Émile de Borchgrave, Essai historique sur les colonies belges qui s'établirent en Hongrie et en Transylvanie pendant les XIe, XIIe et XIIIe siècles (Brussels)
* Jean-Baptist David, Manuel de l'histoire de Belgique
* Edouard Dupont, Les temps antéhistoriques en Belgique
* J.S.G. Nypels, Pasinomie. Collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et régelements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique
* Adolphe Quetelet, Histoire des sciences mathématiques et physiques chez les Belges
* Eugène Somerhausen, Code politique de la Belgique
* Edward Van Even, Mengelingen voor de geschiedenis van Braband

## Births

* 10 January – Emiel van Heurck, folklorist (died 1931)
* 8 February – Médard Tytgat, illustrator (died 1948)
* 14 May – Louis de Brouchoven de Bergeyck, politician (died 1938)
* 26 May – Camille Huysmans, politician (died 1968)
* 29 May – Pieter Franciscus Dierckx, painter (died 1950)
* 8 June – Aloys Van de Vyvere, politician (died 1961)
* 12 June – Lu Zhengxiang (in Shanghai), abbot (died 1949)
* 9 July – Auguste-Léopold Huys, missionary (died 1938)
* 11 July – Armand Huyghé, soldier (died 1944)
* 23 July – Ovide Decroly, psychologist (died 1932)
* 30 September – Adolphe Stoclet, art collector (died 1949)
* 5 October – Karl Hanquet, historian (died 1928)
* 30 November – Emile de Cartier de Marchienne, diplomat (died 1946)
* 29 December – Emmanuel Foulon, Olympic archer (died 1945)

## Deaths

* 8 January – Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans (born 1825), priest and botanist
* 18 January – Princess Joséphine Marie of Belgium (born 1870)
* 2 February – Jan Frans Loos (born 1799), politician
* 10 February – Étienne Constantin de Gerlache (born 1785), first Prime Minister of Belgium
* 26 March – François-Joseph Fétis (born 1784), musicologist
* 18 May – Constance Trotti (born 1800), hostess and patron of the arts
* October – Théodore Fourmois (born 1814), artist