1839 in Belgium

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Decades:	1810s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1839 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1839 in Belgium .

Incumbents

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

Events

• 19 April – Treaty of London guarantees Belgian independence and neutrality; Luxembourg and Limburg partitioned.
• 21 May – Royal Library of Belgium opens to the public.
• 11 June – Parliamentary elections

Publications

• Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen founded by Constant-Philippe Serrure and Philip Blommaert as a text publication society to produce editions of medieval Flemish literature.

Periodicals

• Bibliographie de la Belgique, ou catalogue général de livres belges (Brussels, C. Muquardt) ^[2]
• Revue de Bruxelles , 3. ^[3]

Official publications

• Machines à vapeur: Arrêtés et instructions (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique) ^[4]

Other works

• Kronyk van Vlaenderen van 580 tot 1467 (2 vols, Ghent, Maetschappy der Vlaemsche Bibliophilen). ^[5]
• Le promeneur dans Bruxelles et dans ses environs (Brussels, Société Typographique Belge) ^[6]
• Mrs. Wemyss Dalrymple, The Economist's New Brussels Guide (Brussels, W. Todd) ^[7]
• Louis de Potter, Révolution belge, 1828 à 1839: Souvenirs personnels (Brussels, Meline, Cans & co.) ^[8]
• Joseph Jean De Smet, Abrégé de l'histoire de la Belgique, third edition (Ghent) ^[9]
• Pierre Simons and Gustave Nicolas Joseph de Ridder, Le Chemin de fer belge, ou recueil des mémoires et devis pour l'établissement du chemin de fer d'Anvers et Ostende à Cologne, avec embranchement de Bruxelles et de Gand aux frontières de France, 3rd edition (Brussels, Lacross et Cie.) ^[10]
• Auguste Voisin, La bataille de Woeringen: récit historique (Brussels, Société des Beaux-Arts) ^[11]

Art and architecture

Antoine Wiertz, Esmeralda (1839)

• Antoine Wiertz, Esmeralda, Quasimodo

Births

• 10 February – Max Rooses, writer and museum curator (died 1914)
• 1 March – Élie Marchal, botanist (died 1923)
• 28 July – Isabelle Gatti de Gamond, feminist educator (died 1905)
• 7 August – Charles Hermans, painter (died 1924)
• 30 August – Henri Maquet, architect (died 1909)
• 18 October – Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois, naturalist (died 1921)
• 18 December – Adolf Daens, radical priest (died 1907)
• 26 December – Charles John Seghers, missionary bishop (died 1886)

Deaths

• 9 June – Joseph Paelinck (born 1781), painter
• 7 August – Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier (born 1769), politician
• 15 December – Mattheus Ignatius van Bree (born 1773), painter

References

1. Georges-Henri Dumont, Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (Le Cri, 2017).
2. On Google Books
3. April–June issues on Google Books.
4. On Google Books
5. Both volumes in one on Google Books.
6. On Google Books
7. On Google Books
8. On Google Books
9. Abrégé de l'histoire de la Belgique (3rd ed.). Ghent: Vanryckeghem-Hovaere. 1839.
10. On Google Books
11. Voisin, Auguste (1839). "La bataille de Woeringen: Récit historique".