1847 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1847 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1847 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Charles Rogier, Prime Minister 1847–1852 and 1857–1868

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (to 12 August); Charles Rogier (from 12 August)

Events

A 19th-century view of the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, opened 20 June 1847

• 7 June – Théâtre des Galeries opens in Brussels.
• 8 June – Partial legislative elections.
• 20 June – Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert shopping arcade opened in Brussels.
• 1 July – Opening of the public exhibition of the products of national industry in Brussels.[1]
• 9 August – Antwerp–Ghent railway line completed.
• 27 September – Premonstratensians return to Postel Abbey.[2]

Publications

Periodicals

• Annales parlementaires de Belgique[3]
• Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez), vol. 14.[4]
• Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, Léonard Hebbelynck).[5]
• Revue de Bruxelles[6]

Exhibitions

• J.B.A.M. Jobard, Exposition de l'industrie Belge 1847[7]
• Catalogue des produits de l'industrie belge admis à l'exposition de 1847[8]

Scholarship

• André Dumont, Mémoire sur les terrains Ardennais et Rhénan de l'Ardenne, du Rhin, du Brabant et du Condros (Brussels, Hayez)[9]
• Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, L'Histoire des rois francs

Literature

• Tegenwoordig België (Liberalen, Katholyken en Vlaemsche-beweging) door Een' Noord-Nederlander beoordeeld (Ghent, Snoeck-Ducaju en zoon); reprinted from De Gids.[10]
• Hippoliet Van Peene, "De Vlaamse Leeuw", song set to music by Karel Miry
• Hippoliet Van Peene, Willem van Dampierre, historical drama

Art and architecture

Antoine Wiertz, La Belle Rosine (1847)

• Jean-Pierre Cluysenaar, Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert – shopping arcade in Brussels
• Antoine Wiertz, La Belle Rosine

Births

• 9 March – Martin Pierre Marsick, composer (died 1924)
• 9 April – Léon Mignon, sculptor (died 1898)
• 11 May – Godefroid Kurth, historian (died 1916)
• 27 August – Édouard Descamps, jurist and politician (died 1933)
• 31 August – Arthur Verhaegen, architect and politician (died 1917)
• 3 October – Frantz Jourdain, architect (died 1935)

Deaths

• 19 March – Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck (born 1805), writer
• 4 April – Julie du Bosch (born 1797), social reformer

References

1. Catalogue des produits de l'industrie belge admis à l'exposition de 1847 (1847) on Google Books
2. Theodoor Ignaz Welvaarts, Postel en zijn vroegere invloed in Nederland (1882), p. 7 on Google Books.
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=a109AQAAMAAJ
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=Oq1JAAAAcAAJ
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=gaVCAAAAcAAJ
6. vol. 3 (1847), vol. 4 (1847)
7. https://books.google.com/books?id=Iso-AAAAcAAJ
8. https://books.google.com/books?id=wXY-AAAAcAAJ
9. https://books.google.com/books?id=th8OAAAAQAAJ
10. https://books.google.com/books?id=YnYUAAAAQAAJ