1850 in Belgium

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Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	Other events of 1850 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1850 in Belgium .

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

Foundation cross of Scourmont Abbey

• Sint-Lodewijkscollege established in Lokeren
• 14 February – Treaty of commerce and navigation with the Russian Empire signed in Berlin. ^[1]
• 5 May – National Bank of Belgium founded
• 27 May - Provincial elections
• 11 June – Partial legislative elections
• 25 July – Scourmont Priory established
• 4 August – Mediation by the King of the Belgians leads to the restoration of diplomatic relations between Spain and the United Kingdom. ^[2]
• 25 September – King Leopold lays the first stone of the Congress Column in Brussels
• 31 October – Treaty of commerce and navigation with Bolivia signed in Brussels ^[3]

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach de poche de Bruxelles ^[4]
• Almanach royal officiel ^[5]
• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein (Brussels, Muquardt) ^[6]
• Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 21 (Brussels, E. Devroye). ^[7]
• Revue de Bruxelles ceases publication

Books

• Félix Victor Goethals, Dictionnaire généalogique et héraldique des familles nobles du Royaume de Belgique, vol. 3. ^[8]
• Adolphe Joanne, Voyage en Orient (Ixelles lez Bruxelles, Delevingne & Callewaert) ^[9]
• Edouard Mary, Epîtres en vers sur la Belgique.
• Jean-Joseph Thonissen, Le Socialisme et ses promesses (2 volumes)
• Pierre-Joseph van Beneden, Recherches sur la faune littorale de Belgique: Les vers cestoïdes ou acotyles (Brussels, Hayez) ^[10]

Art and architecture

Paintings

• Jan August Hendrik Leys, Divine Service in Holland

Births

• 5 January – Theodoor Verstraete, artist (died 1907)
• 30 January – Emma De Vigne, painter (died 1898)
• 20 February – Eugène Joors, painter (died 1910)
• 20 March – Marietta Hannon Rousseau, mycologist (died 1926)
• 14 April – Fredegand Cogels, politician (died 1932)
• 9 May – Fernande de Mertens, painter (died 1924)
• 8 October – Léon Herbo, painter (died 1907)
• 4 November – Jules Bilmeyer, architect (died 1920)
• 17 November – Hippolyte d'Ursel, politician and historian (died 1937)
• 29 December – Frans Van Leemputten, painter (died 1914)

Deaths

• 29 April – Charles de Brouckère (born 1757), politician
• 5 September – Paul-François Huart-Chapel (born 1770), industrialist and politician
• 11 October – Queen Louise (born 1812)

References

1. "Traité de navigation et de commerce entre la Belgique et la Russie". RefLex.be. Council of State (Belgium). 14 February 1850.
2. Joseph Irving, The Annals of Our Time (London and New York, 1871), p. 308.
3. "Traité de commerce et de navigation entre la Belgique et la Bolivie". RefLex.be. Council of State (Belgium). 31 October 1850.
4. On Archives de Bruxelles
5. On Archives de Bruxelles
6. Annuaire on Google Books.
7. Recueil des lois on Google Books.
8. Dictionnaire généalogique on Google Books.
9. Voyage en Orient on Google Books.
10. Recherches sur la faune littorale on Google Books.