1853 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1853 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold I
- Head of government: Henri de Brouckère
Events
- 9 April – Prince Leopold sworn in as a member of the Belgian Senate.
- 9 June – Aalst railway station opens.
- 22 August – Marriage of Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne, and Marie Henriette of Austria.[1]
- 23 August – International Maritime Conference opens in Brussels under the chairmanship of Adolphe Quetelet and at the instigation of Matthew Fontaine Maury (ends 8 September)[2]
- 19 September – First International Statistical Congress opens in Brussels under the chairmanship of Adolphe Quetelet.
Publications
- Periodicals
- Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)[3]
- Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère (Commission Royale de Pomologie) begins publication.[4]
- Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 5, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein[5]
- La Belgique Horticole, vol. 3.[6]
- Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, vol. 20 (Brussels, M. Hayez)[7]
- Recueil des pièces imprimées par ordre de la Chambre des Représentants, vol. 3.[8]
- Guidebooks and directories
- Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia (London, W.J. Adams)[9]
- Francis Coghlan, The Miniature Guide to the Rhine through Belgium and Holland (London, J. Onwhyn)[10]
Art and architecture
- Buildings
- Paintings
- Henri Leys, Frans Floris Going to a Saint Luke's Day Feast 1540
- Charles Verlat, Buffalo Ambushed by a Tiger
- Antoine Wiertz, Hunger, Madness and Crime
Births
- 31 January – Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire, Flemish activist (died 1948)
- 14 February – Jan Van Rijswijck, politician (died 1906)
- 20 December – Marie Parent, feminist (died 1934)
Deaths
- 11 January – Floris Nollet (born 1794), engineer
- 18 January – Antoine Payen the Younger (born 1792), painter
- 12 February – Joseph Van Hoorde (born 1818), horticulturalist
- 5 March — Hirsch Sommerhausen (born 1781), educator and translator
- 30 April – Edouard Mary (born 1796), social reformer
- 3 December – Lazare Richtenberger (born 1792), banker
References
- ^ Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 389.
- ^ Maritime Conference held at Brussels for Devising a Uniform System of Meteorological Observations at Sea (n.p.d.). On Google Books.
- ^ Almanach royal on Google Books.
- ^ Vol. 1 on Wikisource (French).
- ^ Annuaire de la noblesse on Google Books.
- ^ Belgique Horticole on Google Books.
- ^ Bulletins de l'Académie on Google Books.
- ^ Recueil des pièces on Google Books.
- ^ Bradshaw on Google Books.
- ^ Miniature Guide on Google Books.
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