1862 in Belgium
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See also: | Other events of 1862 List of years in Belgium |
Events in the year 1862 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold I
- Head of government: Charles Rogier
Events
- Chimay Brewery founded
- Belgian Catholic Mission to China established
- March
- 3 March – Leopold I of Belgium writes a letter to the dean of Windsor expressing a desire to be buried alongside his first wife, Princess Charlotte of Wales.[1]: 672
- 29 March – Two members of a criminal gang guillotined in Charleroi.[1]: 672
- April
- 11 April – Belgian Navy abolished.[1]: 672
- May
- 26 May – Provincial elections
- July
- 23 July – Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed.[1]: 672
- September
- 16 September – Victor Hugo's Brussels publisher, Albert Lacroix, holds a banquet to celebrate the success of Les Misérables
Architecture
- Loppem Castle (designed by E. W. Pugin and Jean-Baptiste Bethune) completed
Publications
- Periodicals and series
- Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)[2]
- La Belgique Horticole, vol. 12.[3]
- Collection de précis historiques, vol. 11, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[4]
- L'Education de la Femme begins publication
- Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de Belgique, vol. 49 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge)[5]
- Revue belge et étrangère, vol. 13.[6]
- De Vlaemsche school: tijdschrift voor kunsten, letteren, wetenschappen, ouheidskunde en kunstnyverheid, vol. 8.[7]
- Monographs and reports
- Robert Scott Burn, Notes of an Agricultural Tour in Belgium, Holland, & the Rhine (London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green)[8]
- Louis Galesloot, Procès de François Anneessens, doyen du corps des métiers de Bruxelles, vol. 1 (Brussels and The Hague)[9]
- Literature and the arts
- Maria Doolaeghe, Sinte Godelieve, Vlaemsche legende uit de XIde eeuw
- Guido Gezelle, Gedichten, Gezangen en Gebeden
- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, published in Brussels, then in Paris and Leipzig by A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie.
- William Henry James Weale, Restauration des monuments publics en Belgique, second edition[10]
Births
- 22 May — Joseph Amerlinck, engineer (died 1915)
- 19 June – Paul Saintenoy, architect (died 1952)
- 29 August – Maurice Maeterlinck, author (died 1949)
- 10 December – Georges Hulin de Loo, art historian (died 1945)
Deaths
- 29 January – Louis-Joseph Seutin (born 1793), surgeon and senator
- 10 March – Pieter van Hanselaere (born 1786), painter
- 5 August – Felix de Muelenaere (born 1793), Catholic politician
- 8 December – Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen (born 1796), liberal politician
References
- ^ a b c d Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
- ^ Almanach on Google Books.
- ^ Belgique Horticole on Google Books.
- ^ Collection de précis historiques on Google Books.
- ^ Recueil des lois on Google Books.
- ^ Revue belge on Google Books.
- ^ De Vlaemsche school on Google Books.
- ^ Notes of an Agricultural Tour on Google Books.
- ^ Procès de François Anneessens, vol. 1 on Google Books.
- ^ Restauration des monuments on Google Books.
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