1854 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1854 in Belgium.
Incumbents[edit]
Events[edit]
- 27 February – Commercial treaty with France on tariffs, transit and navigation for five years.[1]
- 22 May – Provincial elections
- 13 June – Partial legislative elections of 1854
Publications[edit]
- Periodicals
- Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)[2]
- Annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 11 (Antwerp, Froment)[3]
- Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 2.[4][5]
- Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (ed.), Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 8 (Brussels, Auguste Decq and C. Muquardt)[6]
- Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 21 (Brussels, Hayez)[7]
- Collection de précis historiques, vol. 5, edited by Edouard Terwecoren[8]
- Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, L. Hebbelynck)[9]
- Books
- Hendrik Conscience, Tales of Flemish life (Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature 3; Edinburgh, Thomas Constable)[10]
- Charles Meerts, Dictionnaire Géographique et Statistique du Royaume de Belgique (Brussels, H. Goemaere)[11]
- Jules de Saint-Genois, Historische verhalen
- Belgique industrielle: vues des établissements industriels de la Belgique (Brussels, Jules Géruzet)[12]
- Exposition générale des Beaux-Arts, 1854: Catalogue explicatif (Brussels, G. Stapleaux)[13]
Art and architecture[edit]
- Paintings
- Antoine Wiertz, The Premature Burial
Births[edit]
- 22 April – Henri La Fontaine, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)
- 15 May – Émile Van Arenbergh, magistrate and writer (died 1934)
- 25 May – Joseph Van den Gheyn, Jesuit (died 1913)
- 2 July – Achille Gerste, Jesuit linguist (died 1920)
- 18 July – Émile Dossin de Saint-Georges, general (died 1936)
- 22 October – Édouard de Laveleye, engineer (died 1938)
- 31 October – Rémy Cogghe, painter (died 1935)
Deaths[edit]
- 28 February – Zoé de Gamond (born 1806), feminist
- 17 September – Joseph De Cauwer (born 1779), painter
- 16 October – Goswin de Stassart (born 1780), politician
References[edit]
- ^ C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 23-26.
- ^ On Google Books
- ^ On Google Books
- ^ On Wikisource (French)
- ^ On Google Books
- ^ Annuaire on Google Books.
- ^ On Google Books
- ^ Collection de précis historiques at Google Books
- ^ Messager des sciences historiques on Google Books
- ^ Tales of Flemish life on Google Books
- ^ Dictionnaire Géographique on Google Books
- ^ Belgique industrielle on Google Books
- ^ Exposition générale des Beaux-Arts on Google Books
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