1862 in Belgium
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Incumbents
Events
- Chimay Brewery founded
- Belgian Catholic Mission to China established
- March
- 3 March â Leopold I of Belgium writes a letter to the dean of Windsor expressing a desire to be buried alongside his first wife, Princess Charlotte of Wales.[1]:â672â
- 29 March â Two members of a criminal gang guillotined in Charleroi.[1]:â672â
- April
- 11 April â Belgian Navy abolished.[1]:â672â
- May
- 26 May â Provincial elections
- July
- 23 July â Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed.[1]:â672â
- September
- 16 September â Victor Hugo's Brussels publisher, Albert Lacroix, holds a banquet to celebrate the success of Les Misérables
Architecture
- Loppem Castle (designed by E. W. Pugin and Jean-Baptiste Bethune) completed
Publications
- Periodicals and series
- Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)[2]
- La Belgique Horticole, vol. 12.[3]
- Collection de précis historiques, vol. 11, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[4]
- L'Education de la Femme begins publication
- Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de Belgique, vol. 49 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge)[5]
- Revue belge et étrangère, vol. 13.[6]
- De Vlaemsche school: tijdschrift voor kunsten, letteren, wetenschappen, ouheidskunde en kunstnyverheid, vol. 8.[7]
- Monographs and reports
- Robert Scott Burn, Notes of an Agricultural Tour in Belgium, Holland, & the Rhine (London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green)[8]
- Louis Galesloot, Procès de François Anneessens, doyen du corps des métiers de Bruxelles, vol. 1 (Brussels and The Hague)[9]
- Literature and the arts
- Maria Doolaeghe, Sinte Godelieve, Vlaemsche legende uit de XIde eeuw
- Guido Gezelle, Gedichten, Gezangen en Gebeden
- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, published in Brussels, then in Paris and Leipzig by A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie.
- William Henry James Weale, Restauration des monuments publics en Belgique, second edition[10]
Births
- 22 May â Joseph Amerlinck, engineer (died 1915)
- 19 June â Paul Saintenoy, architect (died 1952)
- 29 August â Maurice Maeterlinck, author (died 1949)
- 10 December â Georges Hulin de Loo, art historian (died 1945)
Deaths
- 29 January â Louis-Joseph Seutin (born 1793), surgeon and senator
- 10 March â Pieter van Hanselaere (born 1786), painter
- 5 August â Felix de Muelenaere (born 1793), Catholic politician
- 8 December â Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen (born 1796), liberal politician
