1862 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1862 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1862 in Belgium .

Incumbents

Monarch: Leopold I

Head of government: Charles Rogier

Events

• Chimay Brewery founded
• Belgian Catholic Mission to China established

March

• 3 March – Leopold I of Belgium writes a letter to the dean of Windsor expressing a desire to be buried alongside his first wife, Princess Charlotte of Wales. ^{[1] : 672}
• 29 March – Two members of a criminal gang guillotined in Charleroi. ^{[1] : 672}

April

• 11 April – Belgian Navy abolished. ^{[1] : 672}

May

• 26 May – Provincial elections

July

• 23 July – Anglo-Belgian Treaty of Commerce and Navigation signed. ^{[1] : 672}

September

• 16 September – Victor Hugo's Brussels publisher, Albert Lacroix, holds a banquet to celebrate the success of Les Misérables

Architecture

Loppem Castle

• Loppem Castle (designed by E. W. Pugin and Jean-Baptiste Bethune) completed

Publications

Periodicals and series

• Almanach royal officiel (Brussels, H. Tarlier) ^[2]
• La Belgique Horticole , vol. 12. ^[3]
• Collection de précis historiques, vol. 11, edited by Edouard Terwecoren S.J. ^[4]
• L'Education de la Femme begins publication
• Recueil des lois et arrêtés royaux de Belgique, vol. 49 (Brussels, Imprimerie du Moniteur Belge) ^[5]
• Revue belge et étrangère, vol. 13. ^[6]
• De Vlaemsche school: tijdschrift voor kunsten, letteren, wetenschappen, ouheidskunde en kunstnyverheid, vol. 8. ^[7]

Monographs and reports

• Robert Scott Burn, Notes of an Agricultural Tour in Belgium, Holland, & the Rhine (London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green) ^[8]
• Louis Galesloot, Procès de François Anneessens, doyen du corps des métiers de Bruxelles, vol. 1 (Brussels and The Hague) ^[9]

Literature and the arts

• Maria Doolaeghe, Sinte Godelieve, Vlaemsche legende uit de XIde eeuw
• Guido Gezelle, Gedichten, Gezangen en Gebeden
• Victor Hugo, Les Misérables , published in Brussels, then in Paris and Leipzig by A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie.
• William Henry James Weale, Restauration des monuments publics en Belgique, second edition ^[10]

Births

• 22 May — Joseph Amerlinck, engineer (died 1915)
• 19 June – Paul Saintenoy, architect (died 1952)
• 29 August – Maurice Maeterlinck, author (died 1949)
• 10 December – Georges Hulin de Loo, art historian (died 1945)

Deaths

• 29 January – Louis-Joseph Seutin (born 1793), surgeon and senator
• 10 March – Pieter van Hanselaere (born 1786), painter
• 5 August – Felix de Muelenaere (born 1793), Catholic politician
• 8 December – Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen (born 1796), liberal politician

References

1. Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
2. Almanach on Google Books.
3. Belgique Horticole on Google Books.
4. Collection de précis historiques on Google Books.
5. Recueil des lois on Google Books.
6. Revue belge on Google Books.
7. De Vlaemsche school on Google Books.
8. Notes of an Agricultural Tour on Google Books.
9. Procès de François Anneessens, vol. 1 on Google Books.
10. Restauration des monuments on Google Books.