1832 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1832 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold I
- Head of government: Félix de Muelenaere (to 20 October); Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (from 20 October)
Events
- 8 April â Engelbert Sterckx consecrated as Archbishop of Mechelen
- 11 July
- Order of Leopold established.[1]
- Provisional postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Frankfurt am Main.[2]
- 9 August â Leopold I of Belgium marries Louise of Orléans.[1]
- 20 October â Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella replaces Félix de Muelenaere as Prime Minister
- 15 November to 23 December â Siege of Antwerp: Belgian army with French support invests Antwerp Citadel, held by Dutch forces.
- 23 December â Siege of Antwerp concludes: Dutch forces removed from Antwerp Citadel.
Publications
Art and architecture
- Paintings
- Joseph De Cauwer, Prometheus Delivered by Hercules (now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent)
Births
- Date uncertain â Oswald Orth, philologist (died 1920)
- 2 February â Gédéon Bordiau, architect (died 1904)
- 8 March â William Henry James Weale, art historian (died 1917)
- 24 March â Edouard Osy de Zegwaart, politician (died 1900)
- 21 August â Charles-Joseph de Harlez de Deulin, Orientalist (died 1899)
- 11 November â Paul Goethals, Archbishop of Calcutta (died 1901)
- 10 December â Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent (died 1916)
- 13 December â Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of London (died 1898)
Deaths
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- Date uncertain â William Cockerill (born 1757/9), industrialist
- 16 December â Charles van Hulthem (born 1764), politician and bibliophile
