1851 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1851 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

• National Bank of Belgium prints its first series of banknotes.[1]
• 24 January – Treaty of commerce and navigation with the Kingdom of Sardinia signed in Turin.[2]
• 23 February – Willemsfonds established.
• 18 April – New law on bankruptcy.[3]
• 24 April – Convention with the Netherlands allowing steamships on the Ghent–Terneuzen Canal signed in The Hague.[4]
• May-October – Embroiderer Joseph Van Halle exhibits "Church ornaments and Brussels lace" at the Great Exhibition in London.[5][6] The Belgian ambassador, Sylvain Van de Weyer, was consulted to ensure that the display of ecclesiastical vestments was arranged in such a way as not to offend Protestant sensibilities.[7]
• 8 May – Convention with The Netherlands abolishing tolls on the Meuse signed in Brussels.[8]
• 19 May – Railway line between Liège and Namur completed.
• 30 June – Protocol to the convention abolishing tolls on the Meuse signed in Brussels.[9]
• 27 September – Elections to the Senate
• 27 October – Treaty of commerce and navigation with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland signed in London.[10][11][12]
• 11 December – Victor Hugo's exile in Belgium begins.

Publications

Thladiantha dubia from La Belgique Horticole

Periodicals

• Almanach du commerce et de l'industrie, ed. H. Tarlier (Brussels, G. Stapleaux)[13]
• Annales de l'Observatoire Royal de Bruxelles, vol. 8, edited by Adolphe Quetelet.
• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 5, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein[14]
• La Belgique Horticole begins publication.[15]
• Journal de l'armée belge, vol. 1.[16]

Official publications and monographs

• Code de justice et de discipline militaires (Brussels, Librairie universelle de Rozez).
• Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 22.[17]
• Henri Alexis Brialmont, Précis d'art militaire (Brussels, A. Jamar)[18]
• Henri Alexis Brialmont, Considérations politiques et militaires sur la Belgique, vols. 1-2 (Brussels, M. Hayez)[19]
• G. Lacambre, Traité complet de la fabrication des bières et de la distillation des grains, pommes de terre, vins, betteraves, mélasses, etc. (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique d'Aug. Decq)[20]

Literary publications

• Johan Michiel Dautzenberg, Beknopte prosodia der Nederduitsche taal[21]

Art and architecture

Charles-Philogène Tschaggeny, The Gathering of the Harvest (1851)

Paintings

• Hendrick Joseph Dillens, The Winning Archer
• Edouard Hamman, Disillusion
• Henri Adolphe Schaep, View of a Harbour
• Charles-Philogène Tschaggeny, The Gathering of the Harvest

Births

• 8 January – Gérard Leman, general (died 1920)
• 21 April – Eugène Siberdt, painter (died 1931)
• 21 May – Charles Emile Stuyvaert, astronomer (died 1908)
• 21 July – Auguste Brancart, publisher of pornography (date of death unknown)
• 6 August – Paul Wittouck, industrialist (died 1917)
• 12 August – Aloïs Boudry, painter (died 1938)
• 19 August – Frans Schollaert, politician (died 1917)
• 4 October – Michel Levie, politician (died 1939)
• 7 October – Lucien Solvay, newspaper editor (died 1950)
• 21 November – Désiré-Joseph Mercier, cardinal-archbishop (died 1926)
• 10 December – Alfred Ronner, artist (died 1901)

Deaths

• 17 February – Jean-Baptiste Minne-Barth (born 1796), politician
• 4 July – Martin-Joseph Mengal (born 1784), composer
• 19 July – Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé (born 1818), nobleman and murderer

References

1. "The Belgian banknote". nbbmuseum.be. National Bank of Belgium.
2. "Traité de commerce et de navigation entre la Belgique et la Sardaigne, signé à Turin le 24 janvier 1851". RefLex.be. Council of State (Belgium). 24 January 1851.
3. Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 22 (1851), pp. 132-165. On Google Books.
4. "Convention entre la Belgique et les Pays-Bas autorisant la navigation à vapeur sur le canal de Terneuzen par navires à hélices, signée à la Haye le 24 avril 1851". RefLex.be. Council of State (Belgium). 24 April 1851.
5. Illustrated London News, vol. 19 (Jul.-Dec. 1851), pp. 22, 156, 290, 315.
6. Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851: Reports by the Juries (London, 1852), p. 471. On Google Books
7. Geoffrey Cantor, Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851 (Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 50.
8. "Convention entre la Belgique et les Pays-Bas pour la suppression des péages sur la navigation de la Meuse, signée à Bruxelles le 8 mai 1851". RefLex.be. Council of State (Belgium). 8 May 1851.
9. "Protocole, signé à Bruxelles le 30 juin 1851, additionnel à la convention entre la Belgique et les Pays-Bas pour la suppression des péages sur la navigation de la Meuse du 8 mai 1851". RefLex.be. Council of State (Belgium). 30 June 1851.
10. C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 76-80. On Google Books
11. Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 338.
12. "Traité de commerce et de navigation entre la Belgique et le Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande, et article additionnel, signés à Londres le 27 octobre 1851". RefLex.be. Council of State (Belgium). 27 October 1851.
13. Almanach du commerce on Google Books.
14. Annuaire de la noblesse on Google Books.
15. Volume 1 on Google Books.
16. Journal de l'armée belge on Google Books.
17. Recueil des lois on Google Books.
18. Précis d'art militaire on Google Books.
19. Vol. 1, vol. 2.
20. Volume 1 and volume 2 on Google Books.
21. Beknopte prosodia at Digital Library for Dutch Literature.