1840 in Belgium
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Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold I
- Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 18 April); Joseph Lebeau (from 18 April)[1]
Events
- 29 March â Treaty of amity and navigation with the United States signed but never ratified.[2]
- 18 April â Liberal ministry under Joseph Lebeau comes to power.
- 25 May â Provincial elections
- 30 May â Parliament considers petitions for Dutch to be made an official language, organised by Ferdinand Augustijn Snellaert and Jean-Baptist David.
- 4 June â Botanical Garden of Mechelen opens, with Joseph Van Hoorde as head gardener.[3]
- 10 August â Culmination of the Fortsas hoax in Binche.
- 15 August â City of Antwerp festively marks the bicentenary of the death of Peter Paul Rubens.[4]
Publications
- Periodicals
- Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)[5]
- Annuaire de la bibliothèque royale de Belgique[6]
- Annuaire dramatique de la Belgique, 2[7]
- Archives de la médecine belge[8]
- Messager des sciences historiques[9]
- Pasinomie: Collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique, series 2, 1822-1824 (Brussels, Société Typographique Belge)[10]
- La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature begins publication under the auspices of the Association Nationale pour Favoriser les Arts en Belgique.[11]
- Revue de Bruxelles, 4[12]
- Revue nationale de Belgique[13]
- Exhibitions
- Exposition publique de la Société royale d'agriculture et de botanique à Gand (Ghent, D. J. Vanderhaeghen-Hulin)[14]
- Guidebooks and directories
- Indicateur belge, ou Guide commercial et industriel (Brussels, Bauchard-Rinche)[15]
- Alexandre Ferrier de Tourettes, Belgium Historical and Picturesque, translated by Henry Robert Addison (Brussels)[16]
- Alexandre Ferrier de Tourettes, Handbook for Travellers on the Belgian Rail-Road (Brussels)[17]
- Monographs
- P. Namur, Histoire des bibliothèques publiques de la Belgique (Brussels, F. Parent)[18]
- Literature
- Maria Doolaeghe, Madelieven
- Jules de Saint-Genois, Le Faux Baudouin
Births
- 3 January â Father Damien, missionary (died 1889)
- 11 April â Paul Janson, politician (died 1913)
- 7 June â Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (died 1927)
- 11 June â Henri de Braekeleer, painter (died 1888)
Deaths
- 4 February â Angélique de Rouillé (born 1756), writer
- 20 March â Jan Frans van Dael (born 1764), painter
- 9 June â John Cockerill (born 1790), industrialist
- â Jeanne-Marie Artois (born 1762), brewer
