1857 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1857 in Belgium .

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Pierre de Decker (to 9 November); Charles Rogier (from 9 November)

Events

• Jean Neuhaus opens an apothecary shop in Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert
• 28 May – Liberal protests near the Palace of the Nation against a proposed "convents" law that would give the Catholic Church more power to manage charitable foundations.
• 27 October – Municipal elections, giving a liberal victory.
• 30 October – Pierre de Decker's ministry resigns.
• 10 December – Snap legislative elections, giving a liberal victory.

Publications

Periodicals

• Almanach de poche de Bruxelles (Brussels, M. E. Rampelbergh) ^[1]
• Almanach du commerce et de l'industrie (Brussels, H. Tarlier) ^[2]
• Annales de pomologie belge et étrangère , vol. 5. ^{[3] [4]}
• Annuaire de la noblesse de Belgique, vol. 11, edited by Isidore de Stein d'Altenstein ^[5]
• Annuaire statistique et historique belge, vol. 4, edited by Auguste Scheler ^[6]
• Annuaire de l'Académie royale de Belgique, vol. 23 ^[7]
• La Belgique, 4 ^[8]
• La Belgique Horticole , vol. 7. ^[9]
• Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, ser. 2, vol. 1. ^[10]
• Bulletins de l'Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres de Bruxelles, vol. 3 (Brussels, Hayez). ^[11]
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 6, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J. ^[12]
• Journal de l'armée belge, vols. 13-14 ^[13]
• Journal d'horticulture pratique de la Belgique ^[14]
• De toekomst: tijdschrift voor opvoeding en onderwijs begins publication ^[15]

Official reports and monographs

• Recueil consulaire contenant les rapports commerciaux ^[16]
• Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de la Belgique, vol. 9 ^[17]
• Joseph Jean De Smet, Vie de Saint-Liévin, patron de Gand et apôtre du pays d'Alost (Ghent) ^[18]
• Jean-Joseph Thonissen, La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I, vol. 3 (Liège, J.-G. Lardinois) ^[19]

Guidebooks and directories

• David Bogue, Belgium and the Rhine (London, Lee and Carter). ^[20]

Literature

• Frans de Cort, Liederen, eerste reeks (Antwerp) ^[21]

Births

• 12 January – Léon de Witte de Haelen, general (died 1933)
• 21 February – Jules de Trooz, politician (died 1907)
• 18 March – César Thomson, violinist (died 1931)
• 8 April – Marie Louise De Meester, religious foundress (died 1928)
• 27 April – Louis-Napoléon Chaltin, colonial officer (died 1933)
• 11 August – Cyriaque Gillain, general (died 1931)
• 25 August – Louis-Gustave Amelot, engineer (died 1884)
• 28 August – Auguste Goffinet, courtier (died 1927)

Deaths

• 4 January – François-Jean Wyns de Raucour (born 1779), politician
• 7 February – Félix de Mérode (born 1791), politician
• 28 February – André Dumont (born 1809), geologist
• 3 May – Jean Baptiste Smits (born 1792), politician

References

1. "Nouvel almanach de poche, de Bruxelles, pour ... ; contenant les indications les plus utiles aux étrangers et aux habitans". 1857.
2. "Almanach du commerce et de l'industrie". 1857.
3. On Wikisource (French)
4. On Google Books
5. On Google Books
6. On Google Books
7. On Google Books in one binding with volumes 21 and 22
8. On Google Books
9. On Google Books
10. On Google Books
11. "Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique". 1857.
12. On Google Books
13. On Google Books
14. On Google Books
15. Volume 1 on Google Books
16. On Google Books
17. On Google Books
18. Joseph Jean De Smet (1857). Vie de Saint-Liévin, patron de Gand et apôtre du pays d'Alost. Ghent: Vanryckegem-Lepère.
19. Jean-Joseph Thonissen (1857). La Belgique sous le règne de Léopold I. Vol. 3. Liège: J.-G. Lardinois.
20. On Google Books
21. On Google Books