1858 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1858 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

Fire at the Antwerp Exchange, 2 August 1858

• 24 May – Provincial elections
• 17 July – New commercial treaty agreed with the United States.[1]
• 2 August – Bourse of Antwerp burns down.
• September – International congress on intellectual property held in Brussels.[2][3]

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, Tircher)[4]
• Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 6.[5][6]
• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 12, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein[7]
• Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 5, edited by Auguste Scheler[8]
• Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, vol. 24[9]
• La Belgique, 5[10]
• La Belgique Horticole, vol. 8.[11]
• Bulletin et annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 5[12]
• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles, vol. 5 (Brussels, Hayez).[13]
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 7, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[14]
• Journal de l'armée belge, vol. 15[15]
• Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique[16]

Official reports and monographs

• Recueil consulaire contenant les rapports commerciaux[17]
• Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 10[18]

Other works

• C. H. Barlet, Géographie industrielle et commerciale de la Belgique (Mechelen, E.-F. van Velsen)[19]
• Hendrik Conscience, De omwenteling van 1830 (Antwerp, J. P. van Dieren)[20]
• Alexandre Henne, Histoire du règne de Charles-Quint en Belgique (Brussels and Leipzig, Émile Flatau)[21]
• Jan van Ruusbroec, Dat Boec van den gheesteleken Tabernacule, edited by Jean-Baptist David, 2 volumes (Ghent, Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen).[22]
• Jean-Joseph Thonissen, La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I, vol. 4 (Liège, J.-G. Lardinois)[23]
• Alphonse Wauters, Bruxelles et ses faubourgs: guide de l'étranger (Brussels, C. W. Froment)[24]

Births

• 8 April – Eugène van Rechem, bishop (died 1943)
• 7 May – Charles Liebrechts, explorer (died 1938)
• 21 June – Léon Roget, colonial officer (died 1909)
• 12 September – Fernand Khnopff, painter (died 1921)
• 19 October – George Albert Boulenger, zoologist (died 1937)
• 4 November – Jacques de Lalaing, artist (died 1917)

Deaths

• 22 February – Noël Delfosse (born 1801), politician
• 22 April – François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal (born 1780), archivist
• 29 April – Charles d'Hane de Steenhuyze (born 1787), politician
• 15 May – Jacques Coghen (born 1791), politician
• 27 June – Coralie van den Cruyce (born 1796), writer

References

1. C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 91-93. On Google Books
2. Victor Foucher, Le Congrès de la propriété littéraire et artistique tenu à Bruxelles (Paris, 1858) On Google Books
3. Christine Haynes, Lost Illusions: The Politics of Publishing in Nineteenth-Century France (Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. 194-199.
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