1855 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1855 List of years in Belgium

The following events occurred in Belgium in the year 1855.

Incumbents

Pierre de Decker, prime minister 1855-1857

• Monarch: Leopold I
• Head of government: Henri de Brouckère (to 30 March); Pierre de Decker (from 30 March)

Events

Fire at the Monnaie Theatre

• 21 January – Fire at the Monnaie Theatre.
• 30 March – Pierre de Decker succeeds Henri de Brouckère as Prime Minister.
• 9 April – Royal Belgian Entomological Society founded.
• 12 June – Elections to the Senate
• 29 June – Telegraphic convention between Belgium, France and Prussia signed in Berlin. ^[1]
• Collège Saint-François-Xavier established in Verviers.

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier) ^[2]
• Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère , vol. 3. ^{[3] [4]}
• Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 2, edited by Auguste Scheler (Brussels, Kiessling-Schnee & Cie.) ^[5]
• La Belgique Horticole , vol. 5. ^[6]
• Bulletin de la Commission Centrale de Statistique (Brussels, M. Hayez) ^[7]
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 6, edited by Edouard Terwecoren ^[8]
• Le Guide musical begins publication with Schott frères
• Messager des sciences historiques (Ghent, L. Hebbelynck) ^[9]
• Pasicrisie ou recueil général de la jurisprudence des cours de France et de Belgique (Brussels, E. Bruylant., 1855) ^[10]
• Pasinomie: collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, arrêtés et règlements généraux, edited by M. Ranwet (Brussels, Meline, Cans et Cie.) ^[11]
• Vaderlandsch museum voor Nederduitsche letterkunde, oudheid en geschiedenis begins publication, edited by Constant-Philippe Serrure. ^[12]

Books

• Hendrik Conscience, The Lion of Flanders , English translation (London, Lambert & co.) ^[13]
• Hendrik Conscience, Tales of Old Flanders: Count Hugo of Craenhove and Wooden Clara (London, Lambert & co.) ^[14]
• Walter Scott, France and Belgium (Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black) ^[15]
• Jean-Joseph Thonissen, La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I, vol. 1 (Liège, J.-G. Lardinois) ^[16]

Art and architecture

Quartier Leopold railway station, Brussels

Buildings

• Gustave Saintenoy, Quartier Leopold railway station, Brussels

Paintings

• Jean Carolus, Baby's First Steps
• Jean Carolus, The Finishing Touches
• Emile De Cauwer, Church Interior
• Henri Joseph Dillens, The Bird's Nest
• Charles Leickert, Coastal scene with fisherfolk
• Henri Leys, Home-Coming
• Alfred Stevens, The Painter and His Model
• Ildephonse Stocquart, Fleeing the Storm
• François Stroobant, Courtyard of the Palace of Margaret of Austria

Births

• 14 March – Émile Wangermée, colonial officer (died 1924)
• 16 April – Edouard de Jans, painter (died 1919)
• 3 May – Amaat Joos, priest (died 1937)
• 9 May – Emilie Claeys, feminist (died 1943)
• 10 May – Anthony Bowlby, soldier (died 1929)
• 21 May – Émile Verhaeren, poet (died 1916)
• 9 July – Jakob Smits, painter (died 1928)
• 16 July – Georges Rodenbach, author (died 1898)
• 21 August – Auguste Toubeau, trade unionist (died 1912)
• 1 September – Eugène Boch, painter (died 1941)
• 3 September – Emilius Seghers, bishop of Ghent (died 1927)
• 4 September – Théophile Alexis Durand, botanist (died 1912)
• 6 October – Alexandre Delcommune, soldier (died 1922)
• 22 December – Victor Deguise, general (died 1925)

Deaths

• 27 February – Louis Lambillotte (born 1796), Jesuit musicologist
• 24 April – Angelus de Baets (born 1793), painter
• 13 November – James Oliver Van de Velde (born 1795), bishop
• 20 December – Pierre-Ernest Dams (born 1794), politician

References

1. "Convention télégraphique entre la Belgique, la France et la Prusse". refLex. Council of State (Belgium). 29 June 1855.
2. On Google Books
3. On Wikisource (French)
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8. Collection de précis historiques at Google Books
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11. On Google Books
12. Vol. 1 on Google Books.
13. On Google Books
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16. On Google Books