1840 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1840 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold I
- Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 18 April); Joseph Lebeau (from 18 April)[1]
Events
- 29 March – Treaty of amity and navigation with the United States signed but never ratified.[2]
- 18 April – Liberal ministry under Joseph Lebeau comes to power.
- 25 May – Provincial elections
- 30 May – Parliament considers petitions for Dutch to be made an official language, organised by Ferdinand Augustijn Snellaert and Jean-Baptist David.
- 4 June – Botanical Garden of Mechelen opens, with Joseph Van Hoorde as head gardener.[3]
- 10 August – Culmination of the Fortsas hoax in Binche.
- 15 August – 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 Sociéte 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 – Father Damien, missionary (died 1889)
- 11 April – Paul Janson, politician (died 1913)
- 7 June – Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (died 1927)
- 11 June – Henri de Braekeleer, painter (died 1888)
Deaths
- 4 February – Angélique de Rouillé (born 1756), writer
- 20 March – Jan Frans van Dael (born 1764), painter
- 9 June – John Cockerill (born 1790), industrialist
- – Jeanne-Marie Artois (born 1762), brewer
References
- Georges-Henri Dumont, Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (Le Cri, 2017).
- C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), p. 88. On Google Books
- Émile Van Arenbergh, "Van Hoorde, Joseph", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 9 (Brussels, 1887), 459-460.
- "Rubens, de eerste Vlaming met een standbeeld". Rubenshuis. 2015.
- "Almanach royal de Belgique: Classé Et Mis En Ordre Par H. Tarlier". Librairie polytechnique. February 6, 1840 – via Google Books.
- "Annuaire de la bibliothèque royale de Belgique" – via books.google.com.
- "Annuaire dramatique de la Belgique". February 6, 1840 – via Google Books.
- "Archives de la médecine belge". Société encyclographique des sciences médicales. February 6, 1840 – via Google Books.
- "Messager des sciences historiques, ou Archives des arts et de la bibliographie de Belgique". Vanderhaeghen. February 6, 1840 – via Google Books.
- "Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et réglements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique". Bruylant. February 6, 1840 – via Google Books.
- "La renaissance chronique des arts et de la littérature". la Société des beaux arts. February 6, 1840 – via Google Books.
- January to March 1840, April to June 1840
- Volumes 4-5 on Google Books.
- "Exposition publique de la Sociéte royale d'agriculture et de botanique de la ville de Gand". Vanderhaeghen. February 6, 1840 – via Google Books.
- "Indicateur belge, ou Guide commercial et industriel de l'habitant et de l'étranger dans Bruxelles et la Belgique, pour l'an 1840, contenant plus de 60.000 adresses ou renseignements administratifs, commerciaux, etc". chez Bauchard-Rinche. February 6, 1840 – via Google Books.
- Tourettes, Alexandre Ferrier de (February 6, 1840). "Belgium Historical and Picturesque". Belgian Company of booksellers – via Google Books.
- TOURETTES, Alexandre FERRIER DE (February 6, 1840). "Handbook for Travellers on the Belgian Rail-Road" – via Google Books.
- "Histoire des Bibliotheques publiques de la Belgique" – via books.google.com.
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