1841 in Belgium

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Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	Other events of 1841 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1841 in Belgium .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Prime Minister: Joseph Lebeau (to 13 April); Jean-Baptiste Nothomb (from 13 April) ^[1]

Events

• 13 April – Nothomb ministry comes to power.
• 8 June – Parliamentary elections.
• 15 July – Exposition des Produits le l'Industrie Nationale opens in Brussels. ^[2]
• 19 September – Founding of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium.

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach de la cour ^[3]
• Almanach royal de Belgique (Brussels, Librairie Polytechnique) ^[4]
• Annuaire de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-letres de Bruxelles ^[5]
• Annuaire dramatique de la Belgique ^[6]
• Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique ^[7]
• Journal de Bruxelles begins publication.
• Messager des sciences historiques ^[8]
• La renaissance: Chronique des arts et de la littérature, 2. ^[9]
• Revue belge, vol. 17 (Liège, A. Jeunehomme) ^[10]
• Revue de Bruxelles ^[11]

Monographs and reports

• Joseph Jean De Smet (ed.), Recueil des chroniques de Flandre, vol. 2 (Brussels, Commission royale d'Histoire) ^[12]
• Xavier Heuschling, Essai sur la statistique générale de la Belgique, 2nd edition (Brussels, Etablissement Géographique) ^[13]
• François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal, Histoire des Pays-Bas autrichiens (Brussels, Deprez-Parent) ^[14]
• M. E. Perrot, Revue de l'exposition des produits le l'industrie nationale en 1841 (Brussels) ^[15]

Guide books

• A. Ferrier, Guide pittoresque du voyageur en Belgique (3rd edition, Brussels, Société Belge de Librairie) ^[16]
• James Emerson Tennent, Belgium (2 volumes, London, R. Bentley) ^[17]

Art and architecture

Greenhouse in the Botanical Garden of Liège (1841)

Paintings

• Louis Gallait, The Abdication of Charles V
• Antoine Wiertz, La Chute des Anges rebelles

Buildings

• Jean Baptiste De Baets, St. Stefanus, Ghent
• Greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of Liège ^[18]

Births

• 25 January – Cornelius Van Leemputten, painter (died 1902)
• 30 January – Édouard Dupont, geologist (died 1911)
• 12 July – César De Paepe, syndicalist (died 1890)
• 12 August – Leon Van Loo, photographer (died 1907)
• 20 November – Victor D'Hondt, lawyer (died 1902)
• 6 December – Aimé Dupont, photographer (died 1900)

Deaths

• 23 March – Jean-Baptiste Thorn (born 1783), politician
• 10 April – Henri Van Assche (born 1774), painter
• 28 April – Henri-Joseph van den Corput (born 1790), pharmacist
• 20 August – Constantinus Fidelio Coene (born 1780), painter

References

1. Georges-Henri Dumont, Chronologie de la Belgique: De 1830 à nos jours (Le Cri, 2017).
2. "Catalogue des produits de l'industrie belge admis à l'exposition de 1841". 1841.
3. Almanach de la cour on Google Books.
4. "Almanach royal officiel de Belgique". 1841.
5. Annuaire de l'Académie on Google Books.
6. Annuaire dramatique on Google Books.
7. January-June and July-December on Google Books
8. Messager des sciences historiques on Google Books.
9. La renaissance, Vols. 1-2 on Google Books.
10. Revue belge on Google Books.
11. Revue de Bruxelles, October-December, on Google Books.
12. Smet, Joseph Jean de (1841). Recueil des chroniques de Flandre. Vol. 2. Brussels.
13. Essai sur la statistique on Google Books.
14. Histoire des Pays-Bas autrichiens on Google Books.
15. Revue de l'exposition on Google Books.
16. Guide pittoresque on Google Books.
17. Belgium at Project Gutenberg.
18. "Les serres du jardin botanique de Liège". liegetourisme.be (in French). Liège Province.