1844 in Belgium

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Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	Other events of 1844 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1844 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Jean-Baptiste Nothomb[1]

Events

• 1 January

• Royal decree establishes spelling rules for Dutch in Belgium.[2]
• Vlaemsch België, first Dutch-language daily newspaper in Belgium, launched.[3]

• 6 February – Conseil héraldique de Belgique established
• 19 October – Postal convention between Britain and Belgium signed in London.

undated

• Belgian Pontifical College established

Publications

Periodicals

• Annales de la Société royale des beaux-arts et de littérature de Gand[4]
• Annuaire de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles, 10[5]
• Annuaire de l'état militaire de Belgique[6]
• Gazette médicale belge[7]
• Messager des sciences historiques[8]
• Nouvelle Revue de Bruxelles[9]
• La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 5.[10]

Official publications

• Convention de limites entre la Belgique et les Pays-Bas, conclue à Maestricht le 8 aout 1843 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge, 1844)[11]
• État de l'instruction supérieure en Belgique (Brussels, M. Devroye)[12]
• Pasicrisie belge: recueil général de la jurisprudence des cours (Brussels, Société Typographique Belge)[13]

Others

• Auguste Baron, La Belgique monumentale, historique et pittoresque (Brussels, A. Jamar & Ch. Hen)[14]
• Pierre de Decker, Études historiques et critiques sur les monts-de-piété en Belgique (Brussels, Société des Beaux-Arts)[15]
• Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck, Description des animaux fossiles qui se trouvent dans le terrain carbonifère de Belgique (Liège, H. Dessain)[16]
• Jules de Saint-Genois, Anna: historisch tafereel uit de Vlaemsche geschiedenis tydens Maria van Bourgonje
• Jean-Joseph Thonissen, Constitution belge annotée (Hasselt, P.-F. Milis)[17]
• Alphonse Wauters, Les délices de la Belgique (Brussels, Société des Beaux-Arts)[18]

Births

• 24 March – Camille Lemonnier, writer (died 1913)
• 10 April – Jules de Burlet, politician (died 1897)
• 27 April – Théophile Wahis, colonial governor (died 1921)
• 3 June – Paul Mansion, mathematician (died 1919)
• 16 December – Victor Chauvin, Orientalist (died 1913)

Deaths

• 13 April – Frédéric Théodore Faber (born 1782), painter
• 14 October – Jan Baptiste de Jonghe (born 1785), painter

References

1. Georges-Henri Dumont, Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (Le Cri, 2017).
2. Herman van Goethem, Belgium and the Monarchy (2010), p. 36
3. Luc Van Doorslaer, "Source-nation- or Source-language-based Censorship?", in The Power of the Pen: Translation & Censorship in Nineteenth-century Europe, edited by Denise Merkle et al. (Vienna and Berlin, 2010), p. 55
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