1856 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- 1 May â Railway line between Brussels and Ghent completed
- 26 May â Provincial elections
- 10 June â Partial legislative elections return a Catholic majority
- 27 June â Royal order institutes a committee to examine Flemish language grievances.
- 21-23 July â Celebration of the jubilee of Leopold I's swearing-in as monarch
Art and architecture
- Paintings
- Charles de Groux, Pilgrimage of St Guido of Anderlecht
- Basile de Loose, The Happy Family
- Charles Leickert, Urban Landscape
- Henri Adolphe Schaep, Working in the Docks at Night
- Adolphe Stache, Elegant Company
- Charles-Philogène Tschaggeny, The Unwilling Traveller
- Antoine Wiertz, Coquette Dress (The Devil's Mirror)
Publications
- Periodicals
- Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, Tarlier)[1]
- Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 4.[2][3]
- Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 10, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein[4]
- Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 3, edited by Auguste Scheler[5]
- Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, vol. 22[6]
- La Belgique, 2[7]
- La Belgique Horticole, vol. 6.[8]
- Bulletin de la Société de médecine de Gand, vol. 23 (Ghent, Leonard Hebbelynck)[9]
- Collection de précis historiques, vol. 5, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[10]
- Journal de l'armée belge[11]
- Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique[12]
- Official reports and monographs
- Recueil consulaire contenant les rapports commerciaux[13]
- Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 8[14]
- Joseph Jean De Smet (ed.), Recueil des chroniques de Flandre, vol. 3 (Brussels, Commission royale d'Histoire)[15]
- François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal and Edmond Marchal, Histoire politique du règne de l'empereur Charles-Quint (Brussels, H. Tarlier)[16]
- Jean-Joseph Thonissen, La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I, vol. 2 (Liège, J.-G. Lardinois)[17]
- Guidebooks and directories
- Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book for Travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through Portions of Rhenish Prussia (London, W.J. Adams)[18]
Births
- 5 January â Omer Bodson, soldier (died 1891)
- 15 January â Paul de Favereau, politician (died 1922)
- 28 January â Eva Dell'Acqua, composer (died 1930)
- 5 February â Thomas Louis Heylen, bishop (died 1941)
- 6 February â Gerard Portielje, painter (died 1929)
- 17 February â Joseph Boex, author (died 1940)
- 11 April â Constant Lievens, Jesuit (died 1893)
- 9 June â Auguste de Bavay, brewer (died 1944)
- 12 June â Octave Maus, lawyer (died 1919)
- 18 June â Edward Génicot, Jesuit (died 1900)
- 26 July â Edward Anseele, politician (died 1938)
- 1 August â Frans Hens, artist (died 1928)
- 26 August â Léon Frédéric, painter (died 1940)
- 9 October â Sylvain Dupuis, composer (died 1931)
- 27 October â Albrecht Rodenbach, poet (died 1880)
- 28 December â Henri de Merode-Westerloo, politician (died 1908)
Deaths
- 7 March â Alphonse de Woelmont (born 1799), politician
- 22 November â Albert Prisse (born 1788), diplomat
- 28 December â Auguste Drapiez (born 1778), naturalist
