1859 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1859 List of years in Belgium

Map of north-western Germany with Belgium and the Netherlands (1859)

Events in the year 1859 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

• Fabrique d'armes Émile et Léon Nagant established in Liège
• Railway line from Namur to Arlon completed
• 18 April – Five-year commercial treaty with France (1854) extended for two more years.[1]
• 14 June – Partial legislative elections
• 19 July – Auguste Orts replaces Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen as speaker of the Chamber of Representatives.
• 9 August – Modeste Decroix (in religion Fr François) and Louis-Joseph Miroux (in religion Br François), both of Scourmont Priory, condemned to twenty years and ten years hard labour respectively on multiple counts of sexual assault.[2]
• 31 August – Belgian Chamber of Representatives votes to fortify Antwerp as a National Redoubt.[3]
• 3 November – Celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic University of Leuven.[4]
• 24 November – Breve of Pope Pius IX congratulating the Catholic University of Leuven on its twenty-fifth anniversary.

Art and architecture

Alfred Stevens, Will you come out with me, Fido? (1859)

Paintings

• Alfred Stevens, Will you come out with me, Fido?

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, Tircher)[5]
• Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 7.[6][7]
• Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, vol. 25[8]
• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 13, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein[9]
• Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 6, edited by Auguste Scheler[10]
• La Belgique, 8[11]
• La Belgique Horticole, vol. 9.[12]
• Bibliographie de la Belgique, ou Catalogue général de l'imprimerie et de la librairie belges, vol. 22 (Brussels, Charles Muquardt)[13]
• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles (Brussels, Hayez).[14]
• Bulletin et annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 6[15]
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 8, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J.[16]
• Journal de l'armée belge, vol. 17[17]
• Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique[18]
• Le Moniteur Belge [19]
• Recueil consulaire contenant les rapports commerciaux[20]
• Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 11[21]

Reports and monographs

• XIVe exposition nationale et triennale de Gand. Salon de 1859. Notice sur les tableaux et objets d'arts, exposés à l'ancienne église des PP. Dominicains (Ghent, Vanderhaeghen)[22]
• Charles Bormann, The Shrapnel Shell in England and in Belgium with Some Reflections on the Use of this Projectile in the Late Crimean War; a Historico-technical Sketch (Brussels, Librarie européenne)[23]
• Jules Malou, La question monétaire (Brussels, 1859)
• Edmond Speelman, Belgium Marianum: Histoire du culte de Marie en Belgique y compris l'ancien territoire de Lille, de Douai, de Cambrai, etc.: calendrier belge de la Sainte Vierge (Pairs and Tournai, Casterman)[24]
• Jean Stecher, Flamands et Wallons (Liège, F. Renard)[25]

Literature

• Frans de Cort, Liederen, tweede reeks (Antwerp)[26]

Births

• 10 January – Léon Du Bois, organist (died 1935)
• 19 January – Marie Nizet, writer (died 1922)
• 2 April – Léon Rom, colonial officer (died 1924)
• 17 April – Charles van den Eycken, painter (died 1923)
• 19 May – Célestin Demblon, politician (died 1924)
• 25 May – Renée de Merode, noblewoman (died 1941)
• 12 June – Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant (died 1869)
• 19 August – Hippolyte Delehaye, Bollandist (died 1941)
• 20 September – Cyriel Buysse, playwright (died 1932)
• 7 October – Georgette Meunier, painter (died 1951)
• 4 November – Jules Feller, academician (died 1940)
• 7 November – Paul de Smeth, philatelist (died 1940)
• 11 December – Paul Hankar, architect (died 1901)
• 25 December – Jean-François Heymans, pharmacologist (died 1932)

Deaths

• 3 March – Cornelis Cels (born 1778), painter
• 20 March – Jozef Geirnaert (born 1790), artist
• 22 July – Louis de Potter (born 1786), journalist
• 13 November – Prudens van Duyse (born 1804), writer

References

1. C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), p. 26.
2. "Cour d'Assises du Hainaut", Gazette des Tribunaux, 15-16 August 1859.
3. Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 556.
4. Souvenir du XXVe anniversaire de la fondation de l'Université catholique (Leuven, 1860) On Google Books
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19. January, February, March-April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December on Google Books.
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