1835 in Belgium

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Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1835 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1835 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt^[1]

Events

Le Belge (built 1835)

• 12 February – Court of Cassation finds that the laws on injury and manslaughter apply to participants in duels.^[2]
• 5 May – First Belgian railway line, between Brussels and Mechelen, taken into service, with three locomotives: Flèche, Eléphant, and Stephenson.^[3]
• 10 May – Gaspard-Joseph Labis becomes bishop of Tournai.^[4]
• 9 June – 1835 Belgian general election
• 8 August – Brussels Coin Cabinet opens
• 15 September – Exposition des produits de l'industrie nationale opens in Brussels.^[5]
• 10 October – Second provisional postal convention between Belgium and the Office of the Prince of Tour and Taxis signed in Brussels.^[6]
• 1 December – Catholic University of Mechelen relocates to Leuven, becoming Catholic University of Leuven.

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach administratif et industriel de Bruxelles (Brussels, Ad. Wahlen)^[7]
• Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M.-E. Rampelbergh)^[8]
• Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique (Brussels, M. Hayez).^[9]
• Bulletin médical Belge.^[10]
• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres, Volume 2 (Brussels, M. Hayez).^[11]
• Le cultivateur, journal belge d'économie rurale.^[12]
• Messager des sciences et des arts de la Belgique, vol. 3 (Ghent, D. Duvivier).^[13]
• Revue Belge (Liége, Jeunehomme frères).^[14]

Monographs and reports

• Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et réglements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique.^[15]
• De l'industrie et du commerce en Belgique (Brussels, H. Remy).^[16]
• Édouard Ducpétiaux, Statistique comparée de la criminalité en France, en Belgique, en Angleterre et en Allemagne (Brussels, L. Hauman).^[17]
• Louis Prosper Gachard (ed.), Collection de documents inédits concernant l'histoire de la Belgique, vol. 3 (Brussels, Louis Hauman).^[18]
• Jean-Baptiste Van Mons, Arbres fruitiers: leur culture en Belqique (Leuven, L. Dusart and H. Vandenbroeck).^[19]

Fiction

• Jules de Saint-Genois, Hembyse

Guide books

• A. X. Mauvy, The Stranger's Guide through Brussels and its Environs (Brussels, Adolphus Wahlen)^[20]
• The Traveller's Guide Through Belgium (Brussels, Adolphus Wahlen)^[21]

Births

• 21 January – Charles du Bois de Vroylande, politician (died 1888)
• 2 February – Stanislas Bormans, archivist (died 1912)
• 9 April – Leopold II of Belgium (died 1909)
• 23 August – Jules Bara, politician (died 1900)
• 28 September – Jean Louis Gobbaerts, composer (died 1886)
• 20 October – Emile De Mot, mayor of Brussels (died 1909)
• 4 November – Amedée Visart de Bocarmé, mayor of Bruges (died 1924)

Deaths

• 24 February – Gilles-Lambert Godecharle (born 1750), sculptor
• 3 June – Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont (born 1750), artist

References

1. Dumont, Georges-Henri (2017). Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (in French). Le Cri. ISBN 9782390010555.
2. Annales de la jurisprudence belge (Brussels, 1837), p. 122.
3. René De Herdt, "5 mei 1835: Eerste trein rijdt van Brussel naar Mechelen", De 25 dagen van Vlaanderen, 16 (2006), p. 431.
4. A. Simons, "Labis, Gaspard-Joseph", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 30 (Brussels, 1958), 493-496.
5. La Belgique industrielle: compte rendu de l'exposition des produits de l'industrie en 1835 (Brussels, 1836). On Google Books.
6. "Deuxième Convention postale provisoire entre la Belgique et l'Office du Prince de la Tour et Taxis, signée à Bruxelles". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 10 October 1835.
7. On Google Books
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9. On Google Books
10. May-Dec. on Google Books
11. On Google Books
12. Aug.-Oct. on Google Books
13. On Google Books
14. On Google Books
15. vol. 7, vol. 8, vol. 9
16. On Google Books
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18. On Google Books
19. On Internet Archive
20. On Google Books
21. On Google Books