1835 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1835 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Events

- 12 February â Court of Cassation finds that the laws on injury and manslaughter apply to participants in duels.[2]
- 5 May â First Belgian railway line, between Brussels and Mechelen, taken into service, with three locomotives: Flèche, Eléphant, and Stephenson.[3]
- 10 May â Gaspard-Joseph Labis becomes bishop of Tournai.[4]
- 9 June â 1835 Belgian general election
- 8 August â Brussels Coin Cabinet opens
- 15 September â Exposition des produits de l'industrie nationale opens in Brussels.[5]
- 10 October â Second provisional postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Brussels.[6]
- 1 December â Catholic University of Mechelen relocates to Leuven, becoming Catholic University of Leuven.
Art and architecture

- Painting
- Henri Decaisne, The Queen of the Belgians; Mater Dolorosa
- Gustaaf Wappers, Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830
Publications
- Periodicals
- Almanach administratif et industriel de Bruxelles (Brussels, Ad. Wahlen)[7]
- Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)[8]
- Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez).[9]
- Bulletin médical Belge.[10]
- Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres, Volume 2 (Brussels, M. Hayez).[11]
- Le cultivateur, journal belge d'économie rurale.[12]
- Messager des sciences et des arts de la Belgique, vol. 3 (Ghent, D. Duvivier).[13]
- Revue Belge (Liége, Jeunehomme frères).[14]
- Monographs and reports
- Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et réglements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique.[15]
- De l'industrie et du commerce en Belgique (Brussels, H. Remy).[16]
- Ãdouard Ducpétiaux, Statistique comparée de la criminalité en France, en Belgique, en Angleterre et en Allemagne (Brussels, L. Hauman).[17]
- Louis Prosper Gachard (ed.), Collection de documents inédits concernant l'histoire de la Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, Louis Hauman).[18]
- Jean-Baptiste Van Mons, Arbres fruitiers: leur culture en Belqique (Leuven, L. Dusart and H. Vandenbroeck).[19]
- Fiction
- Jules de Saint-Genois, Hembyse
- Guide books
Births
- 21 January â Charles du Bois de Vroylande, politician (died 1888)
- 2 February â Stanislas Bormans, archivist (died 1912)
- 9 April â Leopold II of Belgium (died 1909)
- 23 August â Jules Bara, politician (died 1900)
- 28 September â Jean Louis Gobbaerts, composer (died 1886)
- 20 October â Emile De Mot, mayor of Brussels (died 1909)
- 4 November â Amedée Visart de Bocarmé, mayor of Bruges (died 1924)
Deaths
- 24 February â Gilles-Lambert Godecharle (born 1750), sculptor
- 3 June â Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont (born 1750), artist
