1831 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1831 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch â Leopold I (from 21 July)
- Head of government â Etienne Constantin de Gerlache (27 Februaryâ10 March), Joseph Lebeau (10 Marchâ24 July), Félix de Muelenaere (from 24 July)
Events
- February
- 3 February â Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, elected king of the Belgians but declined the honour.[1]
- 5 February â Jan van Speyk explodes his gunboat in the port of Antwerp
- 7 February â National Congress approves the Constitution of Belgium
- 27 February â Etienne Constantin de Gerlache takes office as head of government
- March
- 10 March â Joseph Lebeau replaces Etienne Constantin de Gerlache as head of government
- June
- 26 June â At the Conference of London the five great powers (Austria, Britain, France, Prussia, Russia) finalise the Treaty of the Eighteen Articles, an unsuccessful peace proposal for Belgium and the Netherlands
- July
- 12 July â Leopold, Prince of Coburg, elected king of the Belgians.[1]
- 19 July â Leopold arrives in Brussels.[1]
- 21 July â Leopold sworn in as King of the Belgians.[1]
- 24 July â Félix de Muelenaere replaces Joseph Lebeau as head of government
- August
- 2â12 August â Ten Days' Campaign â Dutch attempt to re-establish rule over Belgium fails, but Dutch forces retain control of Antwerp Citadel.
- 8 August â Battle of Hasselt
- 12 August â Battle of Leuven
- 29 August â Belgian general election, 1831, first elections for the Belgian Parliament
Publications
- Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)[2]
- Joseph Jean De Smet, Nouvelle géographie, second edition (Ghent, Vanryckgem-Hovaere)[3]
- Auguste Voisin, Guide des voyageurs dans la ville de Gand, ou Notice historique sur cette ville, ses monumens, ses institutions, sa statistique, etc. (Ghent, Louis De Busscher)[4]
Births
- 11 April â Euphrosine Beernaert, landscape painter (died 1901)
- 12 April â Constantin Meunier, painter and sculptor (died 1905)
- 25 April â Edmond Reusens, archaeologist (died 1903)
- 30 May â Louis Roersch, philologist (died 1891)
- 8 July â Antoine-Félix Bouré, monumental sculptor (died 1883)
- 29 July â Léopold Harzé, sculptor (died 1893)
- 26 September â François-Joseph Scohy, archaeologist (died 1881)
- 30 September â Joseph Delboeuf, psychologist (died 1896)
Deaths
- 15 January â François de Méan (born 1756), archbishop of Mechelen
- 27 March â Jean Kickx (born 1775), botanist and mineralogist
- 5 April â Pierre Léonard Vander Linden (born 1797), entomologist
- 21 November â Marie Anne Simonis (born 1758), industrialist
