1832 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1832 in Belgium.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Leopold I
- Head of government: Félix de Muelenaere (to 20 October); Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (from 20 October)
Events
Siege of Antwerp, 1832
- 8 April – Engelbert Sterckx consecrated as Archbishop of Mechelen
- 11 July
- Order of Leopold established.[1]
- Provisional postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Frankfurt am Main.[2]
- 9 August – Leopold I of Belgium marries Louise of Orléans.[1]
- 20 October – Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella replaces Félix de Muelenaere as Prime Minister
- 15 November to 23 December – Siege of Antwerp: Belgian army with French support invests Antwerp Citadel, held by Dutch forces.
- 23 December – Siege of Antwerp concludes: Dutch forces removed from Antwerp Citadel.
Publications
Art and architecture
- Paintings
- Joseph De Cauwer, Prometheus Delivered by Hercules (now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent)
Births
- Date uncertain – Oswald Orth, philologist (died 1920)
- 2 February – Gédéon Bordiau, architect (died 1904)
- 8 March – William Henry James Weale, art historian (died 1917)
- 24 March – Edouard Osy de Zegwaart, politician (died 1900)
- 21 August – Charles-Joseph de Harlez de Deulin, Orientalist (died 1899)
- 11 November – Paul Goethals, Archbishop of Calcutta (died 1901)
- 10 December – Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent (died 1916)
- 13 December – Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of London (died 1898)
Deaths
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William Cockerill
- Date uncertain – William Cockerill (born 1757/9), industrialist
- 16 December – Charles van Hulthem (born 1764), politician and bibliophile
gollark: Mostly it's used in stuff which just *happens* to need water for production, not sold in bottles.
gollark: I mostly support just giving people money directly instead of having the government/whatever try and work out and possibly fail to guess exactly what people need.
gollark: I mean, water is used in VAST quantities (off the top of my head mostly) in industry.
gollark: In any quantity? Hmm.
gollark: "my political position obvious and right, all others wrong and could only be invented by evil people"
References
- William Henry Overall, The dictionary of chronology, or historical and statistical register (London, 1870), p. 76.
- Convention postale provisoire entre la Belgique et l'Office du Prince de la Tour et Taxis, signée à Francfort-sur-le-Main le 11 juillet 1832 via refLex
- On Google Books
- On Google Books
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