1834 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1834 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold I
- Prime Minister: Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (to 4 August), Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (from 4 August)[1]
Events
- 1 May â Belgian State Railways established.
- 25 May â Convention between Belgium and Denmark on rights to inherit and acquire property comes into effect.[2]
- 27 May â Diocese of Bruges re-established, with Franciscus Renatus Boussen as bishop
- 1 June â Work begins on first Belgian railway line.
- 10 June â Belgian bishops announce plans to establish a Catholic University (later to become Catholic University of Leuven).[1]
- 25 June â Masonic lodge Les Amis Philanthropes announces plans to establish a secularist university (to become the Université libre de Bruxelles).[1]
- 22 July â Commission royale d'Histoire founded.
- 22 September â Treaty of amity, commerce and navigation with the Empire of Brazil signed in Rio de Janeiro.[3]
- 1 November â Postal convention with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland comes into effect.[4]
- 8 November â Opening of the Catholic University of Belgium in Mechelen.
- 20 November â Opening of the Université Libre de Belgique in Brussels.
- 17 December â Declarations of reciprocity with the Kingdom of Prussia regarding the inheriting and acquiring of property.[5]
- 29 December â Extradition treaty with the Kingdom of France comes into force.[6]
Publications
- Journal historique et littéraire begins publication in Liège, owned and edited by Pierre Kersten.[7]
- Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et réglements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique.[8]
- Charles de Brouckère and F. Tielemans, Répertoire de l'administration et du droit administratif de la Belgique, Vols. 1-2 (Brussels, Weissenbruch)[9]
- Maria Doolaeghe, Nederduitsche letteroefeningen
- Zoé de Gamond, De la condition sociale des femmes aux dix-neuvième siècle (Brussels, Berthot)[10]
- A. X. Mauvy, Le Promeneur dans Bruxelles et ses environs (Brussels, Adolphe Wahlen)[11]
- Frances Trollope, Belgium and Western Germany in 1833 (2 vols., Paris, 1834)[12]
- Coralie van den Cruyce, Les orphelins de la grande armée (Brussels)
Births
- 4 January â Frans de Potter, founder of the Davidsfonds (died 1904)
- 9 January â Jan Verhas, painter (died 1896)
- 3 June â Camille van Camp, painter (died 1891)
- 21 June â Frans de Cort, poet and translator (died 1878)
- 17 August â Peter Benoit, composer (died 1901)
Deaths
- date uncertain â Marie de Latour (born 1750), painter
- 16 May â Louis-Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium (born 1833)
- 27 July â Jean Joseph Delplancq (born 1767), bishop of Tournai
