1836 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1836 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- 15 March â Annual general meeting of the Banque de Belgique, founded the previous year.[2]
- 30 March â Law on municipalities of Belgium passed: mayors and aldermen to be appointed by the crown from among those elected to the local council; crown cannot disband local councils.[3]:â627â
- 30 April â Law on provinces of Belgium passes: provincial governors appointed by the crown; crown cannot disband provincial councils.[3]:â627â
- 2 May â Parliament empowers government to raise 6 million francs for road-building.[3]:â627â
- 27 May â Postal convention with the Kingdom of France signed in Brussels (to enter into force 29 June).[4]
- 18 June â Belgium adopts metric system.[3]:â627â
- 29 September - Provincial elections
- 31 October â Provincial Council of Hainaut approves the foundation of the Ãcole des Mines de Mons.
- 4 November â Jan Frans Willems and Jean-Baptist David found Flemish literary society Maetschappij tot Bevordering der Vlaemsche Tael en Letterkunde.[3]:â627â
Publications
- Periodicals
- Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)[5]
- Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, M. Hayez)[6]
- Journal historique et littéraire, vol. 3 (Liège, P. Kersten).[7]
- Messager des sciences et des arts, vol. 4 (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck)[8]
- Monographs and reports
- Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et réglements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique[9]
- L. Alvin, Compte-rendu du salon d'exposition de Bruxelles, 1836 (Brussels, J. P. Meline)[10]
- Charles de Brouckère and F. Tielemans, Répertoire de l'administration et du droit administratif de la Belgique, Vol. 3 (Brussels, Weissenbruch)[11]
- Zoé de Gamond, Des devoirs des femmes et des moyens les plus propres d'assurer leur bonheur (Brussels, L. Hauman)[12]
- Joseph Jean De Smet, Coup-d'oeil sur l'histoire ecclésiastique dans les premières années du XIXe siècle (Ghent)[13]
- Guillaume Tell Poussin, Chemins de fer américains (Brussels, Th. Lejeune)[14]
Art and architecture
- Paintings
- Buildings
- Auguste Payen, Porte de Namur tollbooths, Brussels
Births
- 3 March â Léonie de Waha, feminist (died 1926)
- 29 March â Léon d'Andrimont, politician (died 1905)
- 17 May â Virginie Loveling, author and poet (died 1923)[15]
- 9 June â Guillaume Vogels, painter (died 1896)
- 12 June â Bernardine Hamaekers, soprano (died 1912)
- 9 July â Camille of Renesse-Breidbach, entrepreneur (died 1904)
- 23 August â Marie Henriette of Austria, Queen of the Belgians (died 1902)
- 10 November â Julius Vuylsteke, poet-politician (died 1903)
- 15 December â Edmond Picard, jurist (died 1924)
Deaths
- 27 October â Joséphine-Rosalie de Walckiers (born 1765), composer
- 7 November â Philippe-Charles Schmerling (born 1791), palaeontologist
