1840 in Belgium

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

Events in the year 1840 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 18 April); Joseph Lebeau (from 18 April)[1]

Events

• 29 March – Treaty of amity and navigation with the United States signed but never ratified.[2]
• 18 April – Liberal ministry under Joseph Lebeau comes to power.
• 30 May – Parliament considers petitions for Dutch to be made an official language, organised by Ferdinand Augustijn Snellaert and Jean-Baptist David.
• 4 June – Botanical Garden of Mechelen opens, with Joseph Van Hoorde as head gardener.[3]
• 10 August – Culmination of the Fortsas hoax in Binche.
• 15 August – City of Antwerp festively marks the bicentenary of the death of Peter Paul Rubens.[4]

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique)[5]
• Annuaire de la bibliothèque royale de Belgique[6]
• Annuaire dramatique de la Belgique, 2[7]
• Archives de la médecine belge[8]
• Messager des sciences historiques[9]
• Pasinomie: Collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et règlements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique, series 2, 1822-1824 (Brussels, Société Typographique Belge)[10]
• La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature begins publication under the auspices of the Association Nationale pour Favoriser les Arts en Belgique.[11]
• Revue de Bruxelles, 4[12]
• Revue nationale de Belgique[13]

Exhibitions

• Exposition publique de la Sociéte royale d'agriculture et de botanique à Gand (Ghent, D. J. Vanderhaeghen-Hulin)[14]

Guidebooks and directories

• Indicateur belge, ou Guide commercial et industriel (Brussels, Bauchard-Rinche)[15]
• Alexandre Ferrier de Tourettes, Belgium Historical and Picturesque, translated by Henry Robert Addison (Brussels)[16]
• Alexandre Ferrier de Tourettes, Handbook for Travellers on the Belgian Rail-Road (Brussels)[17]

Monographs

• P. Namur, Histoire des bibliothèques publiques de la Belgique (Brussels, F. Parent)[18]

Literature

• Maria Doolaeghe, Madelieven
• Jules de Saint-Genois, Le Faux Baudouin

Births

• 3 January – Father Damien, missionary (died 1889)
• 11 April – Paul Janson, politician (died 1913)
• 7 June – Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (died 1927)
• 11 June – Henri de Braekeleer, painter (died 1888)

Deaths

• 4 February – Angélique de Rouillé (born 1756), writer
• 20 March – Jan Frans van Dael (born 1764), painter
• 9 June – John Cockerill (born 1790), industrialist
• – Jeanne-Marie Artois (born 1762), brewer

References

1. Georges-Henri Dumont, Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (Le Cri, 2017).
2. C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), p. 88. On Google Books
3. Émile Van Arenbergh, "Van Hoorde, Joseph", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 9 (Brussels, 1887), 459-460.
4. "Rubens, de eerste Vlaming met een standbeeld". Rubenshuis. 2015.
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=4ZpjAAAAcAAJ
6. On Google Books
7. On Google Books
8. On Google Books
9. On Google Books
10. https://books.google.com/books?id=7oFCAAAAcAAJ
11. Vols. 1-2 on Google Books
12. January to March 1840, April to June 1840
13. Volumes 4-5 on Google Books.
14. https://books.google.com/books?id=dCBZAAAAcAAJ
15. On Google Books
16. On Google Books
17. On Google Books
18. On Google Books