1834 in Belgium

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Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1834 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1834 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt, Prime Minister 1834-1840, 1846-1847, 1871-1874

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (to 4 August), Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt (from 4 August)^[1]

Events

• 1 May – Belgian State Railways established.
• 25 May – Convention between Belgium and Denmark on rights to inherit and acquire property comes into effect.^[2]
• 27 May – Diocese of Bruges re-established, with Franciscus Renatus Boussen as bishop
• 1 June – Work begins on first Belgian railway line.
• 10 June – Belgian bishops announce plans to establish a Catholic University (later to become Catholic University of Leuven).^[1]
• 25 June – Masonic lodge Les Amis Philanthropes announces plans to establish a secularist university (to become the Université libre de Bruxelles).^[1]
• 22 July – Commission royale d'Histoire founded.
• 22 September – Treaty of amity, commerce and navigation with the Empire of Brazil signed in Rio de Janeiro.^[3]
• 1 November – Postal convention with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland comes into effect.^[4]
• 8 November – Opening of the Catholic University of Belgium in Mechelen.
• 20 November – Opening of the Université Libre de Belgique in Brussels.
• 17 December – Declarations of reciprocity with the Kingdom of Prussia regarding the inheriting and acquiring of property.^[5]
• 29 December – Extradition treaty with the Kingdom of France comes into force.^[6]

Publications

• Journal historique et littéraire begins publication in Liège, owned and edited by Pierre Kersten.^[7]
• Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, arrêtés et réglements généraux qui peuvent être invoqués en Belgique.^[8]
• Charles de Brouckère and F. Tielemans, Répertoire de l'administration et du droit administratif de la Belgique, Vols. 1-2 (Brussels, Weissenbruch)^[9]
• Maria Doolaeghe, Nederduitsche letteroefeningen
• Zoé de Gamond, De la condition sociale des femmes aux dix-neuvième siècle (Brussels, Berthot)^[10]
• A. X. Mauvy, Le Promeneur dans Bruxelles et ses environs (Brussels, Adolphe Wahlen)^[11]
• Frances Trollope, Belgium and Western Germany in 1833 (2 vols., Paris, 1834)^[12]
• Coralie van den Cruyce, Les orphelins de la grande armée (Brussels)

Births

• 4 January – Frans de Potter, founder of the Davidsfonds (died 1904)
• 9 January – Jan Verhas, painter (died 1896)
• 3 June – Camille van Camp, painter (died 1891)
• 21 June – Frans de Cort, poet and translator (died 1878)
• 17 August – Peter Benoit, composer (died 1901)

Deaths

Crown Prince Louis-Philippe

• date uncertain – Marie de Latour (born 1750), painter
• 16 May – Louis-Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium (born 1833)
• 27 July – Jean Joseph Delplancq (born 1767), bishop of Tournai

References

1. Dumont, Georges-Henri (2017). Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (in French). Le Cri. ISBN 9782390010555.
2. "Convention entre la Belgique et le Danemark sur le droit de succéder et d'acquérir des biens, signée à Bruxelles le 26 janvier 1834 et à Copenhague le 21 mars 1834". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 21 March 1834.
3. "Traité d'amitié, de commerce et de navigation entre la Belgique et le Brésil, signé à Rio de Janeiro le 22 septembre 1834". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 22 September 1834.
4. "Convention postale entre la Belgique et le Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande, signée à Londres et à Bruxelles les 17 octobre et 24 octobre 1834". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 24 October 1834.
5. "Déclarations de réciprocité entre la Belgique et la Prusse règlant la faculté de succéder et d'acquérir, établiés à Berlin les 13 décembre et 17 décembre 1834 et échangées le 17 décembre 1834". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 17 December 1834.
6. "Convention d'extradition entre la Belgique et la France, signée à Bruxelles le 22 novembre 1834". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 22 November 1834.
7. Journal, vol. 1 on Google Books.
8. Pasinomie, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, vol. 5, vol. 6.
9. Répertoire, vol. 1 and vol. 2 on Google Books.
10. De la condition sociale des femmes on Google Books.
11. Le Promeneur on Google Books.
12. Belgium and Western Germany in 1833 on Google Books.