1850 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1850 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold I
- Head of government: Charles Rogier
Events
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- Sint-Lodewijkscollege established in Lokeren
- 14 February – Treaty of commerce and navigation with the Russian Empire signed in Berlin.[1]
- 5 May – National Bank of Belgium founded
- 27 May - Provincial elections
- 11 June – Partial legislative elections
- 25 July – Scourmont Priory established
- 4 August – Mediation by the King of the Belgians leads to the restoration of diplomatic relations between Spain and the United Kingdom.[2]
- 25 September – King Leopold lays the first stone of the Congress Column in Brussels
- 31 October – Treaty of commerce and navigation with Bolivia signed in Brussels[3]
Publications
- Periodicals
- Almanach de poche de Bruxelles[4]
- Almanach royal officiel[5]
- Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (Brussels, Muquardt)[6]
- Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 21 (Brussels, E. Devroye).[7]
- Revue de Bruxelles ceases publication
- Books
- Félix Victor Goethals, Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique des familles nobles du Royaume de Belgique, vol. 3.[8]
- Adolphe Joanne, Voyage en Orient (Ixelles lez Bruxelles, Delevingne & Callewaert)[9]
- Edouard Mary, Epîtres en vers sur la Belgique.
- Jean-Joseph Thonissen, Le Socialisme et ses promesses (2 volumes)
- Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Recherches sur la faune littorale de Belgique: Les vers cestoïdes ou acotyles (Brussels, Hayez)[10]
Art and architecture
- Paintings
- Jan August Hendrik Leys, Divine Service in Holland
Births
- 5 January – Theodoor Verstraete, artist (died 1907)
- 30 January – Emma De Vigne, painter (died 1898)
- 20 February – Eugène Joors, painter (died 1910)
- 20 March – Marietta Hannon Rousseau, mycologist (died 1926)
- 14 April – Fredegand Cogels, politician (died 1932)
- 9 May – Fernande de Mertens, painter (died 1924)
- 8 October – Léon Herbo, painter (died 1907)
- 4 November – Jules Bilmeyer, architect (died 1920)
- 17 November – Hippolyte d'Ursel, politician and historian (died 1937)
- 29 December – Frans Van Leemputten, painter (died 1914)
Deaths
- 29 April – Charles de Brouckère (born 1757), politician
- 5 September – Paul-François Huart-Chapel (born 1770), industrialist and politician
- 11 October – Queen Louise (born 1812)
References
- ^ "Traité de navigation et de commerce entre la Belgique et la Russie". RefLex.be. Council of State (Belgium). 14 February 1850.
- ^ Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 308.
- ^ "Traité de commerce et de navigation entre la Belgique et la Bolivie". RefLex.be. Council of State (Belgium). 31 October 1850.
- ^ On Archives de Bruxelles
- ^ On Archives de Bruxelles
- ^ Annuaire on Google Books.
- ^ Recueil des lois on Google Books.
- ^ Dictionnaire généalogique on Google Books.
- ^ Voyage en Orient on Google Books.
- ^ Recherches sur la faune littorale on Google Books.
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