1854 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1854 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1854 in Belgium.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Head of government: Henri de Brouckère

Events

• 27 February – Commercial treaty with France on tariffs, transit and navigation for five years.^[1]
• 22 May – Provincial elections
• 13 June – Partial legislative elections of 1854

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier)^[2]
• Annales de l'Académie d'archéologie de Belgique, vol. 11 (Antwerp, Froment)^[3]
• Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère, vol. 2.^[4][5]
• Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (ed.), Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 8 (Brussels, Auguste Decq and C. Muquardt)^[6]
• Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 21 (Brussels, Hayez)^[7]
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 5, edited by Edouard Terwecoren^[8]
• Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, L. Hebbelynck)^[9]

Books

• Hendrik Conscience, Tales of Flemish life (Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature 3; Edinburgh, Thomas Constable)^[10]
• Charles Meerts, Dictionnaire Géographique et Statistique du Royaume de Belgique (Brussels, H. Goemaere)^[11]
• Jules de Saint-Genois, Historische verhalen
• Belgique industrielle: vues des établissements industriels de la Belgique (Brussels, Jules Géruzet)^[12]
• Exposition générale des Beaux-Arts, 1854: Catalogue explicatif (Brussels, G. Stapleaux)^[13]

Art and architecture

Antoine Wiertz, The Premature Burial (1854)

Paintings

• Antoine Wiertz, The Premature Burial

Births

• 22 April – Henri La Fontaine, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)
• 15 May – Émile Van Arenbergh, magistrate and writer (died 1934)
• 25 May – Joseph Van den Gheyn, Jesuit (died 1913)
• 2 July – Achille Gerste, Jesuit linguist (died 1920)
• 18 July – Émile Dossin de Saint-Georges, general (died 1936)
• 22 October – Édouard de Laveleye, engineer (died 1938)
• 31 October – Rémy Cogghe, painter (died 1935)

Deaths

• 28 February – Zoé de Gamond (born 1806), feminist
• 17 September – Joseph De Cauwer (born 1779), painter
• 16 October – Goswin de Stassart (born 1780), politician

References

1. C. Pety de Thozée, Système commercial de la Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, Bruylant-Christophe, 1875), pp. 23-26.
2. On Google Books
3. On Google Books
4. On Wikisource (French)
5. On Google Books
6. Annuaire on Google Books.
7. On Google Books
8. Collection de précis historiques at Google Books
9. Messager des sciences historiques on Google Books
10. Tales of Flemish life on Google Books
11. Dictionnaire Géographique on Google Books
12. Belgique industrielle on Google Books
13. Exposition générale des Beaux-Arts on Google Books