1877 in Belgium

Decades:	1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s;
See also:	Other events of 1877; List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1877 in Belgium.

Incumbents

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.^[1]
14 March – Trade agreement with Romania signed in Brussels.^[2]
9 July – Law on secret ballot introduces use of voting booths at Belgian polling stations.^[3]
19 August – Plantin-Moretus Museum opens to the public.

Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, 43 (Brussels, F. Hayez)^[4]
Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 46 (Brussels, F. Hayez).^[5]
Moniteur belge.^[6]
Recueil consulaire, 23 (Brussels, C. Torfs)^[7]
Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, 48 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe)^[8]
Revue de Belgique, 25-26.^[9]
Revue de l'instruction publique en Belgique, 20 (Ghent, Eug. Vanderhaeghen)^[10]
Revue de l'horticulture belge et étrangère, 3.^[11]

Léon Herbo, portrait of the sculptor Julien Dillens, winner of the 1877 Prix de Rome
Louis Tytgadt, Readers of the "Gazette van Gent"^[14]

Louis Melsens becomes the second person to receive the Guinard Prize by the Brussels Academy, a Belgian award, given every 5 years since 1872, to the scientist who has written the best work or created the best invention to improve the material or intellectual position of the working class.

9 January – Joseph Mansion, philologist (died 1937)
24 January – Louise van den Plas, feminist (died 1968)
21 February – Jean Capart, Egyptologist (died 1947)
11 March – Alfred Loewenstein, financier (died 1928)
3 July – Marthe de Kerchove de Denterghem, feminist (died 1956)
10 July – Hélène Dutrieu, cyclist and aviator (died 1961)
14 July – Marie Alexandrine Becker, poisoner (died 1942)
11 August – Aloïs Catteau, cyclist (died 1939)
10 September – Henri Denis, general (died 1957)
26 September – Bertha De Vriese, physician (died 1958)
6 October – Oscar Taelman, Olympic rower (died 1945)
10 November – Marie-Georges-Gérard-Léon le Maire de Warzée d'Hermalle, diplomat (died 1931)