1848 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- 24 February â Belgium accedes to the 1841 Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade.[1]
- 4 March â Karl Marx deported from Belgium
- 29 March â Risquons-Tout incident: Belgian troops disperse a revolutionary republican force entering the country from France.
- 13 June â General election
- 12 July - Provincial elections
- 8 October â Convention with the French Second Republic and the Kingdom of Prussia regulating customs declarations on international rail services signed in Brussels.[2]
- 3 November â Postal convention with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland signed in Brussels.[3]
Publications
- Periodicals
- Annales de l'Académie Royale d'Archéologie de Belgique, 5[4]
- Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique, 7[5]
- Journal d'horticulture pratique ou Guide des amateurs et jardiniers, 5 (Brussels, F. Parent)[6]
- Pasicrisie belge: recueil général de la jurisprudence, 3rd series, part 1 (Brussels, Meline, Cans & co.)[7]
- Revue belge de numismatique et de sigillographie, 4[8]
- Books
- Dystorie van Saladine, edited by Constant-Philippe Serrure (Ghent, Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen, 1848)[9]
- Jean-Baptiste Malou, Recherches historiques et critiques sur le véritable auteur de l'Imitation de Jésus-Christ (Brussels, 1848).[10]
- Charles Henri Marcellis, Considérations sur les révolutions de 1848, au point de vue belge (Brussels, Meline, Cans & co.)[11]
- C. Poplimont, La Belgique depuis mil huit cent trente (Brussels and Leipzig, Mayer & Flatau)[12]
Art and architecture
- Paintings
- Louis Gallait, The Fisherman's Family
- Sculpture
- Guillaume Geefs's Le génie du mal installed in Liège Cathedral
- Eugène Simonis, Equestrian statue of Godrfey of Bouillon, Place Royale, Brussels
Births
- 10 February â Anna Boch, painter (died 1936)
- 25 April â Alphonse van Gèle, soldier (died 1939)
- 14 June â Théophile Lybaert, artist (died 1927)
- 22 June â Julien Liebaert, politician (died 1930)
- 3 July â Marie Joseph Charles, 6th Duke d'Ursel, politician (died 1903)
- 16 August â Marie de Villermont, writer (died 1925)
- 7 October â Georges Croegaert, painter (died 1923)
- 8 October â Pierre De Geyter, composer (died 1932)
Deaths
- 23 March â Julien-Joseph Ducorron (born 1770), painter
- 24 April â François van Campenhout (born 1779), opera singer and composer
- 17 May â Jan Frans Eliaerts (born 1761), painter
- 1 October â François-René Boussen (born 1774), bishop of Bruges
