1833 in Belgium

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Decades:	1810s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1833 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1833 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella[1]

Events

Goswin de Stassart, first Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Belgium.

• 23 January – Treaty of amity and navigation with the United States signed but never ratified.[2]
• 23 February – Grand Orient of Belgium established, with Goswin de Stassart as first Grand Master
• 21 May – Convention of London indefinitely extends ceasefire with the Kingdom of the Netherlands following the Belgian Revolution of 1830
• 23 May – 1833 Belgian general election
• 16 June – Jean Arnold Barrett consecrated as Bishop of Namur
• 18 July – Law on distilleries passed, establishing a duty of 22 centimes per hectolitre per day on distillation containers used.[3]
• 8 September – First Daughters of the Cross make their vows (founder Marie Thérèse Haze).
• October – Opening of Sint-Barbaracollege, re-established Jesuit college in Ghent.
• 8 October – Belgian Iron Cross established to honour bravery during the Belgian Revolution
• 18 November – Treaty of Zonhoven between Belgium and the Netherlands, regulating navigation on the Meuse River

Publications

• Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)[4]
• Almanach de la Province de la Flandre Orientale (Ghent, Vanderhaeghe-Maya)[5]
• Pasinomie, ou Collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et règlemens généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique, vol. 1.[6]

Births

Baptism of Crown Prince Louis-Philippe, 1833

• 7 February – Eugène Anspach, governor of the national bank (died 1890)
• 18 March – José Dupuis, performer (died 1900)
• 6 April – Charles De Smedt, Church historian (died 1911)
• 24 July – Louis-Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium (died 1834)
• 4 November – Théophile de Lantsheere, politician (died 1918)

Deaths

• 20 February – Jean-Baptiste de Bouge (born 1757), cartographer
• 12 May – Philippe-Auguste Hennequin (born 1762), artist
• 26 September – Auguste Marie Raymond d'Arenberg (born 1753), aristocrat

References

1. Dumont, Georges-Henri (2017). Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (in French). Le Cri. ISBN 9782390010555.
2. C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 85-86. On Google Books
3. Eric Van Schoonenberghe, Alcohol tijdens de negentiende eeuw: Biotechnologie in volle evolutie (Snoeck, 2012), pp. 26-27.
4. Almanach de poche on Google Books.
5. Almanach de la Province on Google Books.
6. Pasinomie on Google Books.