1853 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1853 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Henri de Brouckère

Events

Leopold, Duke of Brabant, sworn in as a member of the Belgian Senate

• 9 April – Prince Leopold sworn in as a member of the Belgian Senate.
• 9 June – Aalst railway station opens.
• 22 August – Marriage of Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne, and Marie Henriette of Austria.^[1]
• 23 August – International Maritime Conference opens in Brussels under the chairmanship of Adolphe Quetelet and at the instigation of Matthew Fontaine Maury (ends 8 September)^[2]
• 19 September – First International Statistical Congress opens in Brussels under the chairmanship of Adolphe Quetelet.

Publications

Victoria raspberry from Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 1 (1853)

Periodicals

• Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)^[3]
• Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère (Commission Royale de Pomologie) begins publication.^[4]
• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 5, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein^[5]
• La Belgique Horticole, vol. 3.^[6]
• Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, vol. 20 (Brussels, M. Hayez)^[7]
• Recueil des pièces imprimées par ordre de la Chambre des Représentants, vol. 3.^[8]

Guidebooks and directories

• Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia (London, W.J. Adams)^[9]
• Francis Coghlan, The Miniature Guide to the Rhine through Belgium and Holland (London, J. Onwhyn)^[10]

Art and architecture

Aalst railway station

Buildings

• Aalst railway station

Paintings

• Henri Leys, Frans Floris Going to a Saint Luke's Day Feast 1540
• Charles Verlat, Buffalo Ambushed by a Tiger
• Antoine Wiertz, Hunger, Madness and Crime

Births

• 31 January – Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire, Flemish activist (died 1948)
• 14 February – Jan Van Rijswijck, politician (died 1906)
• 20 December – Marie Parent, feminist (died 1934)

Deaths

• 11 January – Floris Nollet (born 1794), engineer
• 18 January – Antoine Payen the Younger (born 1792), painter
• 12 February – Joseph Van Hoorde (born 1818), horticulturalist
• 5 March — Hirsch Sommerhausen (born 1781), educator and translator
• 30 April – Edouard Mary (born 1796), social reformer
• 3 December – Lazare Richtenberger (born 1792), banker

References

1. Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 389.
2. Maritime Conference held at Brussels for Devising a Uniform System of Meteorological Observations at Sea (n.p.d.). On Google Books.
3. Almanach royal on Google Books.
4. Vol. 1 on Wikisource (French).
5. Annuaire de la noblesse on Google Books.
6. Belgique Horticole on Google Books.
7. Bulletins de l'Académie on Google Books.
8. Recueil des pièces on Google Books.
9. Bradshaw on Google Books.
10. Miniature Guide on Google Books.