1848 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1848 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

• 24 February – Belgium accedes to the 1841 Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade.[1]
• 4 March – Karl Marx deported from Belgium
• 29 March – Risquons-Tout incident: Belgian troops disperse a revolutionary republican force entering the country from France.
• 13 June – General election
• 8 October – Convention with the French Second Republic and the Kingdom of Prussia regulating customs declarations on international rail services signed in Brussels.[2]
• 3 November – Postal convention with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland signed in Brussels.[3]

Publications

Periodicals

• Annales de l'Académie Royale d'Archéologie de Belgique, 5[4]
• Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Belgique, 7[5]
• Journal d'horticulture pratique ou Guide des amateurs et jardiniers, 5 (Brussels, F. Parent)[6]
• Pasicrisie belge: recueil général de la jurisprudence, 3rd series, part 1 (Brussels, Meline, Cans & co.)[7]
• Revue belge de numismatique et de sigillographie, 4[8]

Books

• Dystorie van Saladine, edited by Constant-Philippe Serrure (Ghent, Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen, 1848)[9]
• Charles Henri Marcellis, Considérations sur les révolutions de 1848, au point de vue belge (Brussels, Meline, Cans & co.)[10]
• C. Poplimont, La Belgique depuis mil huit cent trente (Brussels and Leipzig, Mayer & Flatau)[11]

Art and architecture

Eugène Simonis, Equestrian statue of Godfrey of Bouillon, Place Royale, Brussels

Paintings

• Louis Gallait, The Fisherman's Family

Sculpture

• Guillaume Geefs's Le génie du mal installed in Liège Cathedral
• Eugène Simonis, Equestrian statue of Godrfey of Bouillon, Place Royale, Brussels

Births

• 10 February – Anna Boch, painter (died 1936)
• 25 April – Alphonse van Gèle, soldier (died 1939)
• 14 June – Théophile Lybaert, artist (died 1927)
• 22 June – Julien Liebaert, politician (died 1930)
• 3 July – Marie Joseph Charles, 6th Duke d'Ursel, politician (died 1903)
• 16 August – Marie de Villermont, writer (died 1925)
• 7 October – Georges Croegaert, painter (died 1923)
• 8 October – Pierre De Geyter, composer (died 1932)

Deaths

• 23 March – Julien-Joseph Ducorron (born 1770), painter
• 24 April – François van Campenhout (born 1779), opera singer and composer
• 17 May – Jan Frans Eliaerts (born 1761), painter
• 1 October – François-René Boussen (born 1774), bishop of Bruges

References

1. "Convention d'accession de la Belgique au traité du 20 décembre 1841 relatif à la suppression de la traité des nègres". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 24 February 1848.
2. "Convention entre la Belgique, la France et la Prusse (Zollverein), règlant le service du chemin de fer international, sous le rapport douanier, signée à Bruxelles le 8 octobre 1848". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 8 October 1848.
3. "Convention postale entre la Belgique et la Grande-Bretagne". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 3 November 1848.
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZRJAAAAcAAJ
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=7q5JAAAAcAAJ
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=cz4CAAAAYAAJ
7. https://books.google.com/books?id=FBNHAQAAMAAJ
8. https://books.google.com/books?id=sF09AQAAIAAJ
9. On Google Books
10. https://books.google.com/books?id=Da5PAAAAcAAJ
11. https://books.google.com/books?id=KGNAAAAAcAAJ