1841 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)

Events

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

Publications

Periodicals

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

Monographs and reports

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

Guide books

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

Art and architecture

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

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