1841 in Belgium
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Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold I
- Prime Minister: Joseph Lebeau (to 13 April); Jean-Baptiste Nothomb (from 13 April)[1]
Events
- 13 April â Nothomb ministry comes to power.
- 8 June â Parliamentary elections.
- 15 July â Exposition des Produits le l'Industrie Nationale opens in Brussels.[2]
- 19 September â Founding of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium.
Publications
Periodicals
- Almanach de la cour[3]
- Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)[4]
- Annuaire de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-letres de Bruxelles[5]
- Annuaire dramatique de la Belgique[6]
- Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique[7]
- Journal de Bruxelles begins publication.
- Messager des sciences historiques[8]
- La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 2.[9]
- Revue belge, vol. 17 (Liège, A. Jeunehomme)[10]
- Revue de Bruxelles[11]
Monographs and reports
- Joseph Jean De Smet (ed.), Recueil des chroniques de Flandre, vol. 2 (Brussels, Commission royale d'Histoire)[12]
- Xavier Heuschling, Essai sur la statistique générale de la Belgique, 2nd edition (Brussels, Etablissement Géographique)[13]
- François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal, Histoire des Pays-Bas autrichiens (Brussels, Deprez-Parent)[14]
- M. E. Perrot, Revue de l'exposition des produits le l'industrie nationale en 1841 (Brussels)[15]
Guide books
- A. Ferrier, Guide pittoresque du voyageur en Belgique (3rd edition, Brussels, Société Belge de Librairie)[16]
- James Emerson Tennent, Belgium (2 volumes, London, R. Bentley)[17]
Art and architecture
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Paintings
- Louis Gallait, The Abdication of Charles V
- Antoine Wiertz, La Chute des Anges rebelles
Buildings
- Jean Baptiste De Baets, St. Stefanus, Ghent
- Greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of Liège[18]
Births
- 25 January â Cornelius Van Leemputten, painter (died 1902)
- 30 January â Ãdouard Dupont, geologist (died 1911)
- 12 July â César De Paepe, syndicalist (died 1890)
- 12 August â Leon Van Loo, photographer (died 1907)
- 20 November â Victor D'Hondt, lawyer (died 1902)
- 6 December â Aimé Dupont, photographer (died 1900)
Deaths
- 23 March â Jean-Baptiste Thorn (born 1783), politician
- 10 April â Henri Van Assche (born 1774), painter
- 28 April â Henri-Joseph van den Corput (born 1790), pharmacist
- 20 August â Constantinus Fidelio Coene (born 1780), painter
