1849 in Belgium

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Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	Other events of 1849 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1849 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

10-cent Belgian postage stamp (1849)

• 24-26 March – Rio Nuñez incident off the West African coast
• 21 April – Belgian domestic law updated in line with becoming a signatory to the Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade^[1]
• 1 May – Jean-Baptiste Malou consecrated as bishop of Bruges
• 1 July – First Belgian postage stamp issued.
• 28 August – Grand Steeple-Chase des Flandres first held

Publications

Periodicals

• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, 3.^[2]
• Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique, 9.^[3]
• Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 16 (Brussels, M. Hayez).^[4]

Books

• Félix Victor Goethals, Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique des familles nobles du Royaume de Belgique.^[5]

Art and architecture

Buildings

• Saint Joseph's Church, Brussels

Paintings

Jacob Jacobs, Merchant Vessels off the Turkish Coast (1849)

• Louis Gallait, Art and Liberty
• Jacob Jacobs, Merchant Vessels off the Turkish Coast

Births

• 25 March – Henri Van Dyck, painter (died 1934)
• 24 May – Albert Lancaster, meteorologist (died 1908)
• 31 May – Aymard d'Ursel, papal courtier (died 1939)
• 8 June – Julien Dillens, sculptor (died 1904)
• 10 June – Félix de Hemptinne, abbot (died 1913)
• 27 September – Emile Claus, painter (died 1924)
• 8 October – Alfred Verhaeren, painter (died 1924)
• 28 November – Albert Thys, businessman (died 1915)
• 2 December – Émile Braun, engineer (died 1927)
• 15 December – Émile Coppieters, politician (died 1922)
• 20 December – Philippe Dautzenberg, biologist (died 1935)

Deaths

• 15 February – Pierre François Verhulst (born 1804), mathematician
• 7 May – Theodoor van Rijswijck (born 1811), writer
• 31 May – Leonard du Bus de Gisignies (born 1770), soldier and politician
• 27 August – Dominic Barberi (born), religious
• 16 December – Maria Jacoba Ommeganck (born 1760), painter

References

1. "Loi du 21 avril 1849 qui adhère à la convention du 24 février 1848, relative à la suppression de la traité des Nègres". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 21 April 1849.
2. "Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique". 1849.
3. "Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique: 1849/50". 1849.
4. On Google Books
5. vol. 1, vol. 2